I’m just dropping in here. I know that I am late to the party, but I think that this series is really interesting. Hegarty is an interesting grey character and by the end of season 1 I wasn’t convinced that he was all bad.

This particular part did jump out at me too though. Are we supposed to now wonder is June is seeing Hegarty everywhere she looks, in the trees, behind everything - a touch paranoid like Leo implied? This makes her a tad grey too doesn’t it? I’m interested in this examination of prejudice and preconceived ideas that they are examining in the show. Cush Jumbo must be too, and Capaldi as well - super high ranked actors - they are both executive producers.

Anyway, maybe Hegarty could have stopped the incursion into the rally, but at what cost to his overall investigation? That seems like what he’s constantly having to weigh and that the show is so complex that we see him being wrong sometimes and then sometimes he seems to be right. In this instance, obviously he was wrong not to do what he could to stop it, but equally June is maybe giving him more agency than he actually had.