What a view | Ashes to Ashes’ Keeley Hawes plays ex-police officer caught in shoot-out with armed locals while on holiday, in BBC First’s Crossfire
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Calling the tune in thwarted-romance thriller Crossfire (BBC First) is Keeley Hawes as both gun-slinging heroine and possible pariah in one Manichean package.
Hawes plays Jo Cross (handy little joke, that), usually found in her natural suburban habitat but here on holiday in Spain with family and close friends.
If things go according to plan, one of those friends will soon become a friend with benefits; it soon becomes obvious, however, that things have not been apprised of said plan, especially when a pair of armed locals with a grudge start shooting hotel guests.
Cross’ police-officer past then animates her present: with a hotel manager who coincidentally keeps a couple of shotguns in the office safe (perhaps for drunken British yobs?) she takes up arms and goes after the murderers, who are casually picking off holidaymakers in the inexplicable absence of any uniformed help.
Tension ratchets up on this holiday from hell, especially for those being shot. Cross, however, feels a public duty to protect all the guests while not knowing if her own family, or those of her friends, are safe. And it is here that Hawes puts the contrition into the conflicted Cross, who reveals in anguished flashbacks and philosophical voice-overs that none of them would be in this deadly mess were it not for her selfish motivations.
