A missing trawler, a death no one on board wants examined too closely, and two branches of the state that would rather not talk to each other — that is the starting knot of Vigil, a British crime thriller split between a Scottish coastline and the sealed corridors of a Royal Navy submarine.
What is Vigil about?
Somewhere off the Scottish coast, a fishing trawler vanishes without explanation. Around the same time, a death on board the submarine HMS Vigil forces open a door that the Navy would clearly prefer stayed shut. DCI Amy Silva is sent to investigate from inside the submarine itself, working alongside DS Kirsten Longacre, who runs the parallel side of the case on land. Neither the police nor the Navy is used to answering to the other, and the friction between them becomes as much a part of the story as the mystery itself, with Britain's own security services hovering at the edges, unwilling to say how much they already know. As Silva and Longacre push further, the case stops looking like an isolated incident and starts looking like a single thread running through something much larger, one that reaches into how the country protects its own secrets at sea.
About the cast
Suranne Jones leads the cast, with Rose Leslie and Gary Lewis in key roles alongside her, anchoring an investigation that keeps moving between shore, ship and submarine.
Context & significance
Vigil was shaped by a team of directors, Andy De Emmony, Isabelle Sieb, James Strong and Joss Agnew, working across a British series that runs about an hour per episode. Made in the United Kingdom and released in 2021, it sits in a lineage of UK crime dramas that use a closed, high-security setting, here a submarine, to trap its characters together and let institutional distrust do as much work as the central mystery.
Watching Vigil on Ktime
Vigil is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are provided, so viewers can pick whichever suits them. Browsing K-Time's Farsi-language pages, including this one, costs nothing; a paid subscription is required only to watch the series itself.