Eleventh Hour: Kryptos

Climatologist Richard Adams (Donald Sumpter) is either on to something or is off his rocker. The government sends his old friend, Professor Ian Hood (Patrick Stewart) to look in on him, Hood is accompanied by his capable bodyguard Rachel (Ashley Jensen). They find Adams in a state of agitation at his home where we meet his wife, Gillian (Susan Wooldridge) who we find out was Hood's girlfriend first. Adams goes on about conspiracies and secrets and seems quite the loon to everyone. That is until he kills himself, leaving Hood a cryptic email and a quiz that leads to Hood and Rachel investigating the institute that fired Adams, run by the evil Destrano (Tom Mannion).
A second scientist had seen Adams work and reveals to Hood that Adams might have been on to something, but Destrano finds out that the man is going to steal the data that Adams left behind and has him fired, and then run over by a passing car as the man is walking out of the building carrying the box with all of his personal effects.
Hood finally figures out the keyword to crack the code, just as Rachel does through a different line of enquiry that reveals the truth about Adams.
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This was a great episode, full of familiar faces. Sumpter, Wooldridge and Mannion are recognizable to anyone who as spent a bit of time watching shows that aired on the BBC. That's the great thing about the UK's model of television programming - the seasons are shorter than US television, so more shows get aired. Most actors can't make a living off of playing one character, so they pop up in all kinds of places, and I'm told it's the norm to do at least as much theatre as television for these actors, so they all tend to have the chops, so to speak, to really bring mysteries (like this show), dramas and comedies alive.
The Oracle told me today that this show only lasted four episodes because the creator upon seeing the way the first episode and beginning credits were handled left because he wanted the show to be about science, not science fiction, and certainly not the X-Files. But, so far three out of three opening scenes have looked very much like my favorite Fox show ever. And the credits could not do more to evoke an X-Files type feel without actually displaying the word "X-Files" somewhere in the titles. She also mentioned that the US version, while getting picked up for a full season and airing right after CSI, couldn't hold the audience. I wonder if that is because they went the straight science route, or went the X-Files science route? I'll get back to you on that.
This was the first episode where I figured out the answers to questions long before Hood did. The big reveals in order are the Fibbonace sequence and Tokyo. The first one may be due to my fascination with this number sequence, but the second one is due to horribly obvious hint dropping.