Episode 1

Short Synopsis
In Cairo at the height of the Arab Spring, hotel night manager Jonathan Pine receives a plea for help from an elegant, well-connected guest. His actions draw him into the terrifying world of Richard Roper, business-man and arms dealer, labelled worst man in the world.

Synopsis
It's 2011, the Egyptian Revolution, Cairo. Jonathan walks to the Nefertiti Hotel where he works as a night manager. Once in the hotel, he catches the eye of Sophie Alekan, a beautiful and elegant guest.

Sophie's luscious suite is being paid by her lover, Freddie Hamid. Freddie, a hot-headed son of a powerful family, has been doing business with Richard Roper, an arms dealer. Sophie comes into possession of confidential materials describing arms shipment and asks Jonathan to have the documents copied and safely stored.

Jonathan skims the documents and finds a list of weapons and warfare chemicals, and correspondence between the Hamids' companies and Ironlast Limited. Concerned, he brings the copies to his friend Simon Ogilvey, who works in the British Embassy. The documents surface in London, in the office of Angela Burr.

It soon turns out information about the documents was leaked and Freddie comes looking for Sophie in the hotel, confronting Pine, who has his night manager shift.

Sophie feels threatened by Freddie and asks Jonathan for help. He hides her outside of Cairo with the help of Youssuf, a hotel employee. Soon, Jonathan and Sophie form a relationship, but when he fails to get her out of the country, she decides it's time to face Freddie Hamid.

Freddie kills her and leaves her mutilated body in the hotel suite. It seems evident the police won't be pressing any charges. Jonathan is devastated.

Four years later, Jonathan is working as a night manager in a different hotel, in Switzerland, when Richard Roper and his entourage arrive. Shocked to face "the worst man on Earth", as Sophie would describe Roper, Pine once again acts out and obtains crushed SIM cards Roper's men used.

His actions bring him to Angela Burr's attention - Angela is not heavily pregnant but all the same determined to bring down Roper, especially after Cairo fiasco. She offers Jonathan a job - he will infiltrate Roper's inner circle and feed her information, ultimately bringing his demise. Reluctantly, Jonathan agrees, if only to avenge Sophie's death.