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It’s a pale substitute for the delicious tension inherent to deadly cloak-and-dagger exploits.

Now he put his cloak-and-dagger skills to work at the Three Lions, where a state-of-the-art security system and the hotel’s unique triangular shape allowed him to keep a constant eye on anyone approaching the building.

It involved allegations of financial impropriety at the top of the Vatican, cloak-and-dagger activity of the kind that has often characterised the secretive world of the Holy See.

Jackson’s love of these soaps runs deeper than the cloak-and-dagger plots and mustache-twirling villains.

But maintaining that electrical undercurrent in person was critical; for all the show’s cloak-and-dagger thrills, their characters’ relationship is the beating pulse of the series.