After the
bustle of the opening episode, the second is predominantly set in Mrs Coulter’s
well- appointed London apartments which Lyra soon finds to be a gilded cage.
The nature of her character is being trusting and adventurous so the promise
that Mrs Coulter will help find her missing friend Roger was enough for Lyra to
believe in. Thus the scene is set for a tense episode in which Lyra soon
becomes suspicious that Mrs C is far from the helpful patron she seems. With
rules aplenty, a locked lift and plenty of locked doors something is up. The
episode is a showcase for both Dafne Keen and Ruth Wilson whose performances
are nuanced and interesting with each turn of the plot.
