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Trigger Point: what has happened so far in ITV's tense bomb disposal thriller?

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Trigger Point season one spoilers below

It's the stuff of nightmares: there's a bomb that is going to kill dozens, if not hundreds, of people in London and you and your team have been called in to disarm the deadly weapon – often with mere minutes to spare.

This is the premise of Trigger Point, ITV's best performing drama of 2022, which boasted an astonishing 9.5 million viewers per episode. Now, two years later, the no-frills cop thriller is back for more banter, nail-biting bomb disposal scenes, and grim backstories, with season two launching on ITV on January 28.

The show follows Afghanistan War veteran Lana Washington () who now works in the Met's counter terrorist bomb disposal squad. The six-part second season picks up as she returns from secondment in Estonia, where she has been working with Ukrainian soldiers. Far from finding any respite,

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