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Betrayal – Season 1, Episode 1 Piles

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When MI5 operative John Hughes meets with a British-Iranian informant who claims to have intelligence about a threat to national security, the informant is killed before he can talk; John, in self-defence, shoots the assassin dead; John is chastized by his boss Simone, who warned him not to follow that lead, all evidence points towards the informant's death being a gangland dispute.

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Shaun Evans

John Hughes

Romola Garai

Claire Wardly

Zahra Ahmadi

Mehreen Askari-Evans

Gamba Cole

Rudy Kember

Omid Djalili

The General

Anthony Flanagan

Craig Beeston
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Synopsis When MI5 operative John Hughes meets with a British-Iranian informant who claims to have intelligence about a threat to national security, the informant is killed before he can talk; John, in self-defence, shoots the assassin dead; John is chastized by his boss Simone, who warned him not to follow that lead, all evidence points towards the informant's death being a gangland dispute.
Director
Julian Jarrold
Executive Producer
Shaun Evans, Damien Timmer
Screenwriter
David Eldridge
Network
ITV
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Feb 8, 2026