Trigger Point: media language and representation

Trigger Point, Series 2, Episode 1 (2024): an ITV crime drama in which Lana Washington, a former army bomb disposal expert, works with a Metropolitan Police bomb disposal team against terrorist threats.
Media language: camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scène, and the conventions of the crime drama and thriller (the urban setting, suspense, enigmas and technical jargon); how the series repeats and varies the genre.
Narrative: the episode's structure and enigmas, and its character types, with Lana as the hero, applying the narrative ideas from earlier lessons.
Representation: a woman leading in a traditionally male genre and role, ethnicity and age across the cast, and the representation of terrorism, the police and the city.
How its representation of gender contrasts with The Sweeney's: compare specific choices in both programmes.
Set from 2027 exams, replacing Luther.
Refer to specific scenes in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of dialogue.

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