Black Doves is a British spy thriller television series created by Joe Barton. The series is about a spies-for-hire organisation that obtains secrets for the highest bidder. Ahead of its premiere on 5 December , it was renewed for a second season.
Critics mostly gave positive reviews, and Knightley received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Helen, the wife of the Secretary of State for Defence , learns that her secret identity as a spy is in danger after her lover is killed by London's underworld. Her employers, the Black Doves, a spies-for-hire organisation β that retrieves industrial, political or diplomatic secrets for the highest bidder β send Sam, an old friend, to protect her. Unbeknownst to Wallace, she is a "Black Dove", a spy who has been giving information to a mercenary organisation that buys and sells information.
At a Christmas party her handler Reed informs her that her lover, Jason Davies, has been murdered along with two others. Jason was a civil servant. Helen believes his death is unconnected to her, though Reed is not so sure. In the past, in , Helen, going by the name Daisy, is recruited by the Black Doves. On her first job she has a one-night stand with Wallace but returns to his place when she realises she left her deceased mother's lighter in his room.
In the present, Helen learns that Jason was killed by a sniper named Elmore Fitch. He attacks her in her home seeking information about Kai-Ming and a mysterious video, but Helen fights him and ends up executing him.
In Sam begins working as a trigger man. In he is assigned to assassinate the Newman brothers, but fails to complete the job when he discovers one of them, Hector, is a child. Hector, though a child, sends assassins after Sam, destroying his life and forcing him to flee. Helen discovers that her friend Yarrick might be involved with Jason's murder. She has Sam steal his phone.
