Please, put away your trays. On the plane has arrived, promising fast-paced action and twists at every turn.
Like airports, walking into a new crime show can be intimidating when you’re surrounded by a smörgåsbord of strange faces staring straight back. Why is that person crying? Where am I going? What is my gate number? There is a lot.
Fortunately for us, we can learn about the people we will soon meet in new games and know them before we get into the chaos. We can arrange everything. There are no surprises. There is no chaos. Crying babies? Let me introduce you to the mute button.
Here’s a clue as to who’s in the crime thriller On the planewhich takes all the stress of the airport and adds crime and drug trafficking. In Flight is streaming now on SBS On Demand.
Jo Conran (Katherine Kelly) is a single mother working on an airline when her son is arrested in Bulgaria for a murder he swore he did not commit. He soon approaches the mysterious Cormac Kelleher (Stuart Martin), who knows all about his son and tells him to smuggle drugs. It’s all just another normal day at work, right?
Jo finds herself drawn into a seedy underworld of corruption, forced to carry out orders without escape. No matter how deep he finds himself, his goal remains the same: keep his son alive and prove his innocence. Will he be able to escape his problem and face those who control him? Or will he forget to put on his own air mask in an endless quest to save his son?
Who is ‘On the Plane’?
Jo Conran (Katherine Kelly)
Jo Conran, 40, is an airline worker who was tricked by a gang into smuggling drugs on their routes. If he fails to carry out any of his orders, the gang promises to kill his son, an outlaw prisoner serving a fifteen-year prison sentence.
Jo is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. As the series progresses, Jo must negotiate gangsters, corrupt cops, hired killers, and an unlikely love triangle fraught with danger.
Jo is scared, alone, and out of her depth. But he learns quickly and devises a daring plan to turn the tables on his son. On the plane tells the story of a brave, smart, and defiant character: A mother willing to do anything to save her son.
Dom Delaney (Ashley Thomas)
Dom, 40, is a customs officer at London’s main airport. He is loyal, devoted, and generous, but suffers from heroism.
Dom changed his position and left the police force after a setback that led to him leaving the force. For a while, Dom felt lost and out of touch. His wife left him, and he only saw his children on weekends. It took a short spell with Jo to help him find his feet.
Dom is proud of his new position and has even decided that getting back together with his wife is the right thing to do. However, Dom still has feelings for Jo. He was there when she needed him the most. Now he’s in danger, it’s his turn to return the favor.
Cormac Kelleher (Stuart Martin)
Cormac, 40, keeps his cards close. He can be terrifying, charming, enigmatic and deadly. He’s spent his entire life walking a razor’s edge, swinging from drug dealer to informant to career criminal.
When Jo first meets Cormac, she thinks he is a true evil man: cruel, violent and violent. However, as they are forced to work together, he discovers that Cormac is also imprisoned and that his motivations are the same as his: guilt, determination, single-minded devotion to a loved one in crisis.
Sparks fly, and as Cormac and Jo’s relationship turns into a complicated, guilty, and extreme love affair, they band together to get revenge on their abusers.
Sonny Conran (Harry Cadby)
Sonny is independent and ambiguous, an outsider who keeps his cards close. He shares Mom’s love of travel, curiosity, the desire to venture, which can also be seen as an impulse to escape: from relationships, commitment, and the possibility of being hurt.
When Sonny was young, he had an open, expressive relationship with his mother, strengthened by love and trust. However, in difficult times, Sonny would retreat to their back garden and play his ball. He would bounce the ball from foot to foot for hours, a sweet rhythm, a silent escape, alone, as he wrestled with his father in his absence, a rejection that burned in his bones. Sonny was raised by his Mum and Nan. When his Nan died, he took the death very hard, and his teenage years were full of conflict – with Jo, school, his peers, and sometimes the police.
Sonny has a clear sense of right and wrong, but his admirable values are sometimes undermined by impetuous, fiery tempers. After violently protecting a child from a homophobic attack, Sonny was alerted by the police and spent the night in custody. Sean, Sonny’s father, finally arrived not long after Sonny’s 18th birthday. When Sonny found out that Jo had been hiding from him that his Dad was coming back, he exploded. Furious at being lied to by his Mother, and seduced by Sean’s pleasure, he moved out to live with his Father.
Sean lied to Sonny. He stole her and breathed her into her. The relationship was a car crash. Too embarrassed to go back to Jo, Sonny took out his overdraft, bought an Interrail pass and wanted to escape by walking. One night, he found himself in Sofia, Bulgaria, alone again, drinking in a bar, coming to terms with the impending violence, unaware that his life was about to change.
Kayla Brown (Corinna Brown)
Kayla grew up in a strict military family and traveled a lot as a child. He learned to make friends quickly and get over losing them, the minute it was time to pack his bags. He learned to be a chameleon, to fit in quickly, to hide his feelings with a big smile and a brave face.
Kayla’s bubbly personality makes her come across as careless or unconcerned. However, the ephemerality of his life has given him an inner steel. Independent, strategic and loyal. He knows the value of a true friend, but he has spent a lot of time feeling alone. After her parents found out she was pregnant, they wanted her to have an abortion. When Kayla refused, they kicked her out. Despite all of Jo and Sonny’s problems, Kayla is drawn to them. They are family and, more than anything, Kayla wants someone and somewhere to feel at home.
Anton Marquis (Tony Pitts)
Anton’s life is the sweetest of everything and everyone he has ever known. The violent poverty of his youth, the codes of his neighborhood, the starched shirts that looked down their noses when he worked at the top of the police force. Anton’s default setting is to support the battle. He is angry, violent and unrepentant. Conflict is his comfort zone, his addiction. He prides himself on seeing people’s weaknesses, hidden weaknesses that he can use to manipulate, manipulate and control.
However, he does not see his fatal flaw: the scars of his upbringing still define him; no amount of wealth and power will ever be enough.
On the plane now airing on SBS On Demand.
