Title: Code of Silence
Cast: Rose-Aiyling Ellis, Nathan Armarkwei Laryea, Lucinda Dryzek, Lace Akpojaro, Molly Hewitt-Richards, Dedun Omole, Kieron Moore, Joe Absolom, Rolf Choutan, Fifi Garfield, Beth Goodard, Andrew Scarborough, Charlotte Ritchie, Andrew Buchan, Tanya Katyal,
Written & Created by: Catherine Moulton
Director: Diarmuid Goggins
Rating: 3.5 stars
Runtime: 6 eps/ 45-50 min each

Writer/Creator Catherine Moulton’s six-part series ‘Code of Silence,’ streaming on Lionsgate play, is a highly engaging, tense and dramatic thriller that keeps you engaged throughout. About a replacement deaf lip reader who gets so involved in a police investigation that she puts her life on the line to get to the truth of the felony about to be committed.

DI James Marsh’s (Andrew Buchan) team, arranges surveillance on Helen Redman code-named “Cruella”(Beth Goodard) and her crew, but they find themselves without a department-certified lip-reader. So they hire a temporary lip reader, a deaf woman, Alison Woods (Rose-Aiyling Ellis) who works as help in the cafeteria at the Canterbury station. She is warned not to get involved or expose herself  to danger but Alison who has been ignored all her life suddenly finds purpose and her enthusiasm and curiosity gets the better of her, inadvertently leading her to get involved with one of the gang members Liam (Kieron Moore) - thus putting the entire operation and her life in jeopardy.

Woods in fact goes as far as to get a bar-tending job at the pub owned by the gang’s enforcer, Braden Moore a.k.a. “Hulk” ( Joe Absolom ). The lonely Liam Barlow, takes a shine to her and vice versa, after meeting at this pub. Woods is initially trying to facilitate his arrest and conviction but after getting involved her commitment to the cause gets a little wobbly.