First Air Date: 2021-08-13
Rating:6.2 / 10(47 votes)
Status: Ended
Genres: Drama, Crime
Seasons: 1 · Episodes: 4
Runtime: 47 min / episode
Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Emilia di Girolamo
The true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London. Examining the complicated and toxic sexual politics of the early ‘90s and the police’s obsession with the wrong man, Deceit enters a dysfunctional world, where a female undercover officer, codename ‘Lizzie James’, is asked to become sexual bait for a suspected killer.
