Detective Hana Li (Jing Lusi) and Dr Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage) finally escape a hellish extradition flight and set about exposing a conspiracy that goes to the heart of the intelligence community (naturally).
Hana visits him in hospital and holds his hand as she thanks him for taking a bullet for her. Moments later, he asks whether they could go on a date once he's recovered, but turns to find that Hana has fallen asleep.
Either that, or she's pretending to sleep, which is what I would have done in this scenario. I mean, come on! Has any romance subplot ever been as much an afterthought as this?
Over the course of season 1, it becomes clear that he was framed and they begin to support each other on the cursed jet, where the only thing more annoying than the hysterical passengers is the killer lurking in the cargo hold.
While she does initiate some light physical contact in the aforementioned hospital scene, this caring gesture was no more than you would offer to a close friend, relative or perhaps anyone who'd stepped in front of a bullet for you.
It's been 18 months since Red Eye season 1 premiered and I still lie awake at night wondering whether this interaction was intended as a throwaway joke, or if it really was a last-minute insertion of a romantic subplot in a story that didn't demand it.
In any case, when ITV announced that Armitage wouldn't be returning to the Red Eye cast in season 2, it was more surprising than it was disappointing – because this isn't a storyline that needs to continue.
Let the Red Eye canon state that Matthew asked Hana out while high as a kite on painkillers and the two have happily moved on with their lives since his recovery. Aww, good for them!
View Green Video on the source websiteDuring an appearance on ITV's This Morning, she spoke of how "refreshing" it was to see a heterosexual man and woman in a strictly professional relationship, which doesn't blossom into anything more.
Obviously, romantic subplots have been major highlights of a multitude of television dramas, so I'm not suggesting they should be erased from any pitch at the commissioning stage.
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