Or, in the case of The Tunnel, breaking into an abandoned wine warehouse, walking in on an aged French war veteran being used to make a political point, and being captured. OMG #EpicFail #SacreBleu ROFL.

And don’t think you’re safe just because you’re an old man. For after depleting the Countdown crowd over here in Blighty, the Truth Terrorist selects an unwitting French pensioner, Jean-Claude Deplanque (translated: John-Claude The Plank), to reinforce his second ‘Truth’: freezing the old man to death to prove no one takes care of the elderly, in what many might imagine is a live feed of British Gas’ board members’ collective imagination.

Nor does it ever pay to be a runaway teen. A young shoplifter named Sophie stomps away from her mum and her mum’s apparent partner, an iPad (‘Sweetie, he’s not trying to be your dad. Though there is an app for that…’). Wandering the damp streets, she encounters an illustration from a ‘Beware Strangers!’ pamphlet come to life and, being a damp angry youth who clearly was off the day that Jet the Police Dog visited her primary school to warn her about stranger danger, follows him to his home.

Who is this tea-loving weirdo? Another strand in a web of stories that at this stage feels just a little too loosely collated to keep the tension and interest as high as it should be. A little too isolated. Dillane and Poésy continue to hold it all together with terrific performances – he with his dishevelled wit, she with her Sherlock-style Mind Mansion, or mind maison, even – but beyond their interplay it feels like we’re watching the pieces rather than the jigsaw as a whole.

At Karl’s real life and rather Grand Designs-y maison, his mouthy son continues to court a clip round the ear with his talking back (The Tunnel really doesn’t portray anyone not old enough to buy a bottle of Ricard in a good light), but more alarmingly acts as a barometer of public reaction, being fascinated by the Truth Terrorist rather than repulsed by him.

And in a show filled with chunky contemporary themes such as asylum seekers, care of the elderly, recession, the most alarming one may be the reminder of how certain parts of society can electronically idolise underdogs and literally ‘Like’ villains with a click.

But if there’s one message to take away, it’s don’t be a teenager. Or an old man. Ever. Stay where you are. And wherever that is, keep watching The Tunnel. All the jigsaw pieces will come together soon.

Aired at 9pm on Wednesday 30 October 2013 on Sky Atlantic.

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