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However, Faisal has fallen in love with Hector, who now finds himself painfully impaled on the fence between the private and professional spheres.
You’ll normally find Hector looking wasted and dishevelled in some debauched nightclub (although not exclusively by night), and he’s suffering pangs of angst about his relationship with Faisal, an agent from the Saudi intelligence directorate who’s been feeding him vital information about jihadist activities. Sleazier than most is CIA man Hector DeJean, played with a persuasive air of moral corruption by Rhys Ifans (pictured above). Using David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” as the title song doesn’t really encourage us to give them the benefit of the doubt. The local CIA crew seem equally devious, and everybody has murky secrets they’re keen to protect. Though Berlin Station is an American production, it’s rooted in authentically grimy Berlin locations and well stocked with German actors, not least Bernhard Schütz as the wily Hans Richter, a veteran spy from the German BfV intelligence service, and his not entirely trustworthy partner Dieter Klaus (Stephan Kampwirth). Miller reckoned he’d identified Shaw’s courier in Berlin, so CIA big cheese Gemma Moore promptly ordered him off on a covert mission to the German capital to put his theory into practice and get to the root of Shaw’s damaging revelations. Miller has arrived in Berlin from his previous job in Panama, where his assiduous online detective work had unearthed telltale clues about the activities of Thomas Shaw, a Snowden-style whistle-blower who’s been leaking CIA secrets to the German press.
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