Agatha Christie's 'Toward Zero' Cast on Being Grilled by Matthew Rhys

In the first episode of the BBC and BritBox miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, there was an abundance of table setting (literally and figuratively) to introduce Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), her assistant Mary (Anjana Vasan) and the ensemble of family and friends who orbit her bed bound life near the English seaside in Gull’s Point.

Chaos comes calling in the form of Tressilian’s tennis champ nephew, Neville Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), his new wife, Kay (Mimi Keene), and his ex-wife, Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland). The divorced “friends” go above and beyond being civil with one another by agreeing to have their summer vacations overlap under the same roof. Of course, that ignites hurt feelings, jealousy, lust, subterfuge…and that’s just under Tressilian’s roof. Nearby, the melancholic Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) is regularly spiraling through drunken benders and ends the episode leaping off a cliff in what looks like a suicide attempt.

In Episode 2, Towards Zero settles into more familiar murder mystery territory as Leach survives his fall and recuperates in time to deal with the dramatic consequences of Lady Tressilian’s passionate house guests and Mary’s sneaky machinations with her pen pal crush and enemy of the family, Thomas Royde (Jack Farthing).