Hayley: "The most domestic small things, when put in this story, become horror."
Amy Lou Wood is particularly heartbreaking"
Scott: "Yeah, because I totally agree with you because there's a scene, it's such a 'blink and you'll miss it' moment - there's a moment where Jodie Whittaker, her character, is having an argument out on a public street. Then you then see a truck fly past, releasing all of these toxins and you realise that’s the cause.
"It's so subtle that nobody realises it until episode three. I mean, this also had, like you said, a lot of humour within it. I think it also hones in on, of course, the awfulness, the sadness, for the devastation caused.
"But it also, I think, highlights and hones in on the good of humanity, the whistleblowers who knew that something was wrong and risked their careers in order to leak this information. The council like the late Sam Hagen, played by Robert Carlisle, who risked his own career...
Hayley: "He had some good lines."
Scott: "I think it also looks at the mountain you have to climb legally in of just having to prove something, particularly that this was the first time that there had been the first case of a link between airborne pollutants and health problems.”
Hayley: "It also covered all the legal stuff without it becoming heavy and boring."
Scott: "Which is so hard to do. I think that's the hardest thing to do is having exchanges within a court in 'English', essentially, which is so hard to carry.
"But I think it’s a masterstroke and the reason why it really works, I think, is that the leads are not in a one-dimensional light. They are given so much complexity to their character that you end up feeling like you really know them. I've been impressed with Jodie Whittaker from when she was in Broadchurch. I think this is her best role."
Naga: "She's fantastic."
