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HBO’s latest mini-series, The Veil, is a tight thriller with themes of espionage and international crime and operations. With Elizabeth Moss as the protagonist Imogen who is hell bent on proving that Adilah El Idrissi (Yumna Marwan) is actually Djinn al Raqqa of ISIS, who is planning a huge attack on the US, the series has already shown how the former has rescued Adilah from the camp she was held captive in. The two then took a detour and eventually, Imogen decided to take Adilah to Paris to reunite her with her daughter. After the DNA test conducted by the American intelligence, Imogen’s superiors are convinced that Adilah is not the fierce ISIS leader they are looking for. However, Imogen does not believe it, and this week’s episode proves that she’s not wrong.
Is Imogen Working for the Americans in The Veil?
Though the show has established Imogen to be working as a French intelligence officer, this episode shows her talking to Max (Josh Charles), the CIA officer who is working with the French intelligence in a manner that shows that the two have already formed a deal that’s beneficial for both of them. We also get to know Imogen’s backstory here as Adilah asks for her true identity, holding her at gunpoint.
Imogen then reveals that her father was a British diplomat who was killed by the Turkish communist party in Istanbul. She further states that she believes that it was actually the CIA who was behind her father’s killing. Revealing this truth about her past helps her gain more trust from Adilah.
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