Mobile (2007)

Name: Mobile
Rating: 4.0

Rating: 4.0

Synopsis

An interweaving plot unfolding against the backdrop of the 2003 Iraq War and the world of the multi-billion pound mobile phone industry, flashing back and forth to retrace events from three different perspectives: The Engineer, a man diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour manipulated into mounting a terror campaign against phone masts, The Soldier, an Iraq War veteran and police marksman who shoots people using mobile phone, and The Boss, a ruthless CEO of the mobile phone operator targeted for kidnapping and assassination in a revenge plot.

First Air Date: 2007-03-19

Last Air Date: 2007-04-09

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Created By: John Fay

Networks: ITV1

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Top Cast

Keith Allen as Sir James Corson
Jamie Draven as Maurice Stoan
John Thomson as Ray Bould / Hypnotherapist
Michael Kitchen as David West
Julie Graham as Donna Doig
Michael J. Jackson as Superintendent Hewitt
Russell Boulter as D S John Goddard
Neil Fitzmaurice as Eddie Doig
Shaun Dooley as D I George Fleming
Sunetra Sarker as D I Lorraine Conil

Seasons

Season 1 (2007)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Engineer (2007-03-19)

Eddie (Neil Fitzmaurice) is a mobile phone engineer who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and has only a few months left to live. His wife Donna (Julie Graham) and children Keith and Steven are distraught yet determined that Eddie will enjoy his last few months. But Eddie blames working as a mobile phone engineer at Corsoncom for causing the tumour and is determined to get revenge from them.
Ep. 2: The Soldier (2007-03-26)

Maurice Stoan (Jamie Draven) is an ex-soldier whose wife and young son are tragically killed in a car accident. The driver of the other car was using a mobile phone and he has never been found. Maurice can’t rest until he has revenge. As his story unfolds, we learn that Eddie was hypnotised in order to carry out the murders, but by whom?
Ep. 3: The Boss (2007-04-02)

The person responsible for the hit-and-run death of Maurice Stoan’s family is finally identified and the real mastermind behind the whole mobile phone terror campaign is revealed.
Ep. 4: The Showdown (2007-04-09)

Maurice continues David West's Beelzebub campaign as the police close in on James Corson.