'Code of Silence' Fell Apart Because of Alison's Terrible Decisions

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I was fairly high on the first half of Britbox’s new summer series Code of Silence . The show follows Alison (Rose Ayling-Ellis), a deaf woman who uses her lip-reading ability to help the police spy on a criminal gang planning a jewelry heist.

Alison, desperate to prove herself, takes a bartending job at the pub the criminals frequent and even strikes up a romance with the gang’s computer hacker, Liam (Kieron Moore). Early on, her overeagerness actually repeatedly jeopardizes the case, but I assumed this was setup, that she’d learn from those mistakes and grow into a sharp, capable informant.

But that never happens. Alison’s decision-making is consistently disastrous, right u

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