Plot
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.
Cast
Niamh Algar
as Lizzie James
Sion Daniel Young
as Colin Stagg
Harry Treadaway
as Keith Pedder
Eddie Marsan
as Paul Britton
Rochenda Sandall
as Lucy
Nathaniel Martello-White
as Baz