The chap’s certainly enterprising, though.
Jones to a new lead, a clue that she suggests Alex put together himself, which isn’t strictly true, but we’ll allow it. Bright, contemporary idea from Alex: Using a Find My Phone app to lead them back to the scene of the crime, an industrial estate near the river.Īlex namedropping Point Blanc leads McClure’s Mrs. The latter pays him a visit and finds him looking into the matter, aggravated about the lack of hospital records. Also alone, now more than ever, though he has Jack and Tom, who seem to be his only confidantes at the moment. See! Alex drops that “Point Blanc” was the last thing Ian said to him, and he wrote it on his desk, so it must have been important. She’s a representative of “the bank”, and goes to visit Alex, who quite rightly points out that Ian never drove above the speed limit. “First his parents, now his uncle,” says a stern, bespectacled Vicky McClure, as Ian’s body is zipped up and wheeled away. It’s almost as if the bad guys want Alex to look into it. Of course he wasn’t rocketing around way over the speed limit. How believable is it that the death of man posing as a buttoned-up bank manager has been covered up in a way that has him behaving entirely out of character? Always niggles me, stuff like that. Things are heating up.Īlex, cycling home - drunk on beer and spirits but still wearing a helmet, naturally - catches the tell-tale flash of blue lights, clueing him in to the fact that Ian has snuffed it apparently in a high-speed collision. Moscow coldly executes Ian, so he seems a classic reluctant baddie - especially when he has to catch a bullet of his own in the shoulder to make his cover story look believable. Ian and his so-called mate Martin go tooled up to meet with their man from Moscow, who turns out to be Scarface from the beginning, and it turns out that Martin is a rat. Still, if you’ve pulled, you’ve pulled, right? Also, Ini Kamoze’s “Here Comes the Hotstepper” is on at the party, so it’s obviously the place to be.Īlex, drinking “beer and vodka and whiskey”, proves himself less adept at chatting to girls than he is as picking locks and climbing buildings Tom fares slightly better by wielding his knowledge of X-Men’s sociological undertones, but admittedly the lass he’s talking to spews her guts up all over the place. Ian, meanwhile, meets with a buddy for a clandestine late-night meetup that surely doesn’t bode well for him. They both nip out once Ian leaves you can’t miss a big party, after all. Two things swiftly become apparent in Alex Rider episode 1: Alex isn’t particularly fond of being told what to do, and Tom is kind of a bad influence. This whole housekeeping business was supposed to be a part-time thing for Jack until she got her degree, and now she has her degree, so it doesn’t take a secret spy to figure out what she’s getting at here.
He also gently chastises Jack about some vague dereliction of duty regarding Alex, whom she seems to think is a bit too old and switched-on for mollycoddling. Ian makes a clandestine call about this mysterious boot camp, which he thinks is Point Blanc. According to Alex, after the pie-face prank, Parker was sent off somewhere, “like a boot camp” in France, to straighten him out. Parker turns out to be an insufferable internet prankster, so I was clearly right about him being punch-worthy. The dinner table conversation falls to the late Michael Roscoe, apparently a client of Ian’s at “the bank”. He easily fashions a paperclip into a lockpick - resourceful! - and then gets caught on the exit by a couple of teachers, who, of course, prove themselves to be narcs.Īlex’s next destination is the doghouse, courtesy of his uncle Ian, “the world’s most boring man.” The Rider family has a housekeeper, Jack (Ronke Adekoluejo), who doesn’t seem to be great at housekeeping. Much more likably-faced is Alex himself, who we catch up with at school along with his beanie-clad BFF, Tom (who promptly gets his phone confiscated - remember that feeling?) Since Alex is apparently part monkey, he clambers up the school with surprising ease in order to retrieve the phone.
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