Mobile is a conspiracy thriller for ITV1 written by John Fay (Robin Hood, Coronation Street and Clocking Off). The three part drama unfolds against the backdrop of the Iraq war and the world of the multi billion pound mobile phone industry, flashing back and forth to retrace events from three very different perspectives: the engineer, the soldier and the boss. Each episode features the same story told from a different viewpoint and only in the final scenes of the third episode is the connection between all three stories made for the first time.
Episode one - The Engineer
Eddie (Neil Fitzmaurice) is a mobile phone engineer who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and has only a few months left to live. His wife Donna (Julie Graham) and children Keith and Steven are distraught yet determined that Eddie will enjoy his last few months. But Eddie blames working as a mobile phone engineer at Corsoncom for causing the tumour and he wants someone to pay.
A drug dealer is shot at point blank range for using his mobile phone while driving, and a Corsoncom mobile phone mast in Wigan is blown-up. When a gunman shoots a phone-using passenger and the driver of an inter-city train, police make a connection between the three events and name Eddie as their number one suspect, but Eddie can't remember a thing about any of the incidents.
Episode two - The Soldier
Maurice Stoan (Jamie Draven) is a soldier whose wife and young son are tragically killed in a hit and run accident while crossing the road. The driver of the car was using a mobile phone and he has never been found. Maurice can't rest until he has revenge.
Episode three - The Boss
In this third and final episode, the person responsible for the hit-and-run death of Maurice Stoan's family is finally identified and the real mastermind behind the whole mobile phone terror campaign is revealed. Starring Michael Kitchen as David West and Keith Allen as Sir James Corson.
Executive Producer Kieran Roberts, describes Mobile as: "A multi-layered story of conspiracy, betrayal and revenge."
Mobile also features Samantha Bond as Rachel, David West's wife; Eithne Brown as Maurice Stoan's mother, Brenda; John Thomson as Ray Bould, Eddie Doig's therapist; Shaun Dooley and Sunetra Sarker as DI's George Fleming and Lorraine Conil; Russell Boulter as DS John Goddard; Alex Reid as Maurice's colleague PC Stacy Cox; John McArdle as Maurice's dad Paul Stoan, Peter Vaughan as Maurice's grandfather and Tony Booth as Eddie's dad.
Each 90 minute episode is written by John Fay and directed by Stuart Orme (Ghostboat, Cold Blood). Gina Cronk (Blue Murder, New Tricks) is the Producer and the Executive Producer is Kieran Roberts.
Transmitted March 19, March 26 and April 2, 2007 on ITV1 at 9.00pm.
Thanks to ITV Granada, Manchester, for the promotional photos.
Used with permission, not for duplication elsewhere.
Episode one - The Engineer
Eddie (Neil Fitzmaurice) is a mobile phone engineer who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and has only a few months left to live. His wife Donna (Julie Graham) and children Keith and Steven are distraught yet determined that Eddie will enjoy his last few months. But Eddie blames working as a mobile phone engineer at Corsoncom for causing the tumour and he wants someone to pay.
A drug dealer is shot at point blank range for using his mobile phone while driving, and a Corsoncom mobile phone mast in Wigan is blown-up. When a gunman shoots a phone-using passenger and the driver of an inter-city train, police make a connection between the three events and name Eddie as their number one suspect, but Eddie can't remember a thing about any of the incidents.
Episode two - The Soldier
Maurice Stoan (Jamie Draven) is a soldier whose wife and young son are tragically killed in a hit and run accident while crossing the road. The driver of the car was using a mobile phone and he has never been found. Maurice can't rest until he has revenge.
Episode three - The Boss
In this third and final episode, the person responsible for the hit-and-run death of Maurice Stoan's family is finally identified and the real mastermind behind the whole mobile phone terror campaign is revealed. Starring Michael Kitchen as David West and Keith Allen as Sir James Corson.
Executive Producer Kieran Roberts, describes Mobile as: "A multi-layered story of conspiracy, betrayal and revenge."
Mobile also features Samantha Bond as Rachel, David West's wife; Eithne Brown as Maurice Stoan's mother, Brenda; John Thomson as Ray Bould, Eddie Doig's therapist; Shaun Dooley and Sunetra Sarker as DI's George Fleming and Lorraine Conil; Russell Boulter as DS John Goddard; Alex Reid as Maurice's colleague PC Stacy Cox; John McArdle as Maurice's dad Paul Stoan, Peter Vaughan as Maurice's grandfather and Tony Booth as Eddie's dad.
Each 90 minute episode is written by John Fay and directed by Stuart Orme (Ghostboat, Cold Blood). Gina Cronk (Blue Murder, New Tricks) is the Producer and the Executive Producer is Kieran Roberts.
Transmitted March 19, March 26 and April 2, 2007 on ITV1 at 9.00pm.
Now available on dvd - region 2.
Many thanks to ITV Manchester for their assistance and enthusiasm in promoting Mobile!
Many thanks to ITV Manchester for their assistance and enthusiasm in promoting Mobile!
Thanks to ITV Granada, Manchester, for the promotional photos.
Used with permission, not for duplication elsewhere.