'COBRA' Remembers Season 2 is Supposed to Be About 'Cyberwar' in Episode 4

Last week's COBRA ended on a cliffhanger: How and why did an irradiated corpse turn up in a truck in the center of London? A meeting between Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his top team, Home Secretary Joseph Obasi, Foreign Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, MI5 Director Eleanor James, and Chief Advisor Anna Marshall is inconclusive. What is certain is they have no idea which world power is behind the severe disturbances plaguing the country. It points to Russia, but China is a possibility. More obvious is Archie openly goading Eleanor. Robert continues to seethe but stresses the identification of the corpse, whose death was caused by being fed a radioactive substance, is critical.

Later that day, he summons them to a COBRA to talk about domestic repercussions. Joseph reports an increase in right-wing conspiracy activity in the COBRA, including Firestorm. Lord and Lady Singer and Robert and his wife are considered at risk, and Eleanor asks Robert to reconsider attending the memorial service. He's adamant that he should go. Robert and Eleanor do their best to persuade Lord Singer (Niall Buggy) to accept more protection. But no, he wants to go on holiday with his wife to Cyprus as planned and be left alone.

Meanwhile, aspiring Labour MP Francine Bridgewater gives a stinging TV interview blasting the Singer Report, suggesting Lord Singer may have "sung for his supper," i.e., been bribed to protect the Tory establishment. Journalist Hari Misra congratulates her, but she's taken aback when he tells her the far-right enjoyed it as much as the left. Sure enough, a shadowy hooded figure (they are always shadowy hooded figures) fiddles around editing her speech on the extreme Firestorm site. Labour leader Chris Edwards meets with Hari and Francine to discuss the memorial service for the Thames Estuary disaster victims, suggesting she announce that she's running as the area's candidate shortly after. (This doesn't actually happen.)