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Vigil Season 2: Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie & Baby Swap Subs for Drones

Vigil Season 2 premieres on Peacock on February 24th, with Suranne Jones & Leslie Jones (and unborn baby) returning to fight military crime.

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Vigil, the hit cop thriller starring Suranne Jones and Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie as cops who are also lovers, is returning for a second season. Actually, it already returned late last year on BBC One in the UK, but it will now premiere in the US on Peacock on February 15th. And again, actually, it's not just Jones and Leslie, but their unborn baby (still uncast except probably as a pillow under Leslie's clothes) who are fighting crime together. It's never clear if the unborn baby is telepathically communcating with Leslie to feed her insights and clues, alas, but they are a crimefighting trio. The baby probably didn't have a say in that arrangement.

Vigil Season 2: Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Unborn Baby Return in Feb
"Vigil Season Two" key art: Peacock

In the first season of Vigil, Detective Amy Silva (Jones) investigated the death of a crew member found dead aboard the Trident nuclear Submarine HMS Vigil. Meanwhile, her partner and lover Detective Inspector Kirsten Longacre (Leslie), already pregnant, remains on land to investigate the same case while feeding information to Silva. Silva is claustrophobic and suffers from PTSD, so of course she's stuck on a nuclear submarine full of hostile Naval personnel and a killer. Hilarity ensued.

In season two, following multiple unexplained fatalities at a Scottish military facility not named "Vigil," DCI Amy Silva and DI Kirsten Longacre (even more heavily pregnant than before, which means this season takes place just a few months after season one) are tasked with uncovering the cause. Entering the hostile and closed ranks of the Air Force, the pair must face the deadly warfare of tomorrow as they fight for their own future. Instead of submarine, this time it's about the dangers of drone warfare! As far as we can tell, their unborn baby is still too young to be able to enter the police force, even as a junior officer. The Scottish police force isn't That desperate for manpower.

Next to Jones and Leslie, the cast includes Gary Lewis, Dougray Scott, Romola Garai, Amir El-Masry, David Elliot, Oscar Salem, Chris Jenks, Jonathan Ajayi, Steven Elder, Khalid Laith Nicoel, and Alastair Mackenzie. The unborn baby isn't even seen in the poster.

The writers of Vigil Season Two are Maryam Hamidi, James Smythe, Ryan O'Sullivan & Matilda Wnek.
The directors are Andy De Emmony and Joss Agnew. Original series creator and writer of Season One, Tom Edge, is Executive Producer along with Jake Lushington and Simon Heath for World Productions.

Like Season One, Vigil Season Two will run for six episodes on Peacock. No, Rose Leslie does not get to say, "You know nothing, Jon Snow." She does speak in a Scottish accent instead.

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Adi TantimedhAbout Adi Tantimedh

Adi Tantimedh is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote radio plays for the BBC Radio, “JLA: Age of Wonder” for DC Comics, “Blackshirt” for Moonstone Books, and “La Muse” for Big Head Press. Most recently, he wrote “Her Nightly Embrace”, “Her Beautiful Monster” and “Her Fugitive Heart”, a trilogy of novels featuring a British-Indian private eye published by Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster.
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