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What happened in The Tourist season 1?

A lot went on in The Tourist season 1 – here's what you need to know before watching season 2.

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It's been a couple of months since the second season of The Tourist debuted on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and now the thriller is coming to Netflix in the US.

The second season follows up on Jamie Dornan's character from the first season, Elliot Stanley, who we met when he was suffering from amnesia after his car was driven off the road in Australia.

Danielle Macdonald's Helen Chambers also plays a key role in season 2, having been introduced in the first outing, but the new run largely focuses on a whole new cast of characters and takes place in a brand new setting .

However, despite this, there are still some crucial elements of season 1 that you'll want to remember. But don't worry – we've got you covered.

Read on for a recap of everything you need to know about The Tourist season 1.

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This article contains brief mentions of suicide and trafficking that some may find distressing.

Jamie Dornan as Elliott in The Tourist.

At the start of The Tourist season 1, we were introduced to an Irish man (Jamie Dornan) who was seemingly on the run across Australia. In his first scene, a truck purposefully ran him off the road, and he ended up in hospital with severe amnesia – he didn't remember anything about who he was, what he had done or what had happened to him.

There, he met Probationary Constable Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald), who was looking to prove herself within the police force and was also engaged to be married to the controlling and passive aggressive Ethan Krum (Greg Larsen).

As the man followed a trail of breadcrumbs to uncover his identity he found that, wherever he went, people were trying to kill him – someone was clearly out to get him.

With the help of a con-woman, Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin), who later turned out to be his ex-girlfriend, the man learned that his name was Elliot Stanley, and he was a former accountant for an international criminal and drug lord, Kostas (Alex Dimitriades).

He had gone on the run with Luci, Kostas's fiancée, earlier that year, after they began an affair and escaped with $1 million of Kostas' money. Since then, they had broken up multiple times until Kostas sent his underlings to find the pair and retrieve the money – hence why Elliot had been ran off the road.

As he tried to piece everything together and outrun Kostas's men, Elliot ended up taking Helen hostage (sort of) but the pair bonded and ended up becoming close, even ending up in bed together (although they were unsure if anything happened between them).

They managed to win out in their battle with Kostas, who was fatally shot by a corrupt police officer, Lachlan (Damon Herriman), who he had blackmailed by taking his wife hostage. However, Luci ended up getting shot, and died as Elliot tried to take her to hospital.

Lachlan, who had killed another officer earlier in the series, blamed the murder on Elliot and Helen, but they managed to prove his deception and clear their own names. Lachlan was arrested.

Meanwhile, Helen ended her relationship with Ethan in spectacular fashion, finally seeing through his manipulations.

How did The Tourist season 1 end?

Danielle MacDonald in The Tourist

Before the end of the season Elliot learned a final, dreadful truth about himself and his past life. He had been having visions of a mysterious woman, Lena Pascal, and when he managed to track her down, he believed she could fill in the blanks in his memory.

When she visited him as he awaited bail from prison, she revealed that Elliot had, at one time, trafficked her and other women, who he coerced into smuggling bags of heroin into Australia in their stomach. The drugs were then cut out of them by one of Elliot's colleagues.

She told him that he would make her smile at him in order to rehearse acting relaxed at the airport, and that he had caused the deaths of two other women smuggling heroin after the bags exploded in their stomachs.

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Disgusted at learning the truth, Elliot tried to kill himself by crashing his car, but woke up in hospital once again. There, Helen told him she had read Lena's admissions in his police report, and said she wanted nothing more to do with him.

Helen's co-worker convinced her to give him a second chance, intimating that she loves him. Right at that moment, Elliot was drinking a bottle of vodka and swallowing a handful of pills, intending to end his life.

Then, as he lay on the floor waiting to die, Elliot received a text from Helen – an emoji of a burrito, which she had previously told him would mean everything was going to be alright. He smiled, and the season cut to black.

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The Tourist series two review – Jamie Dornan is hugely charming in this gloriously fun show

This raucous, entertaining thriller is the perfect vehicle for the one-time Fifty Shades star. It’s twisty, funny and unfailingly engaging

W hen Fifty Shades of Grey arrived in cinemas in 2015, Dakota Johnson was its breakout star. She would delight the internet by going on to declare that her No 1 priority was sleeping , rhapsodising about limes and going viral with an awkward Ellen interview , while straddling indie darlings and the odd blockbuster to cement her A-list status.

But things have not been so smooth for her S&M trilogy co-star Jamie Dornan, who has largely been making forgettable action movies, failed awards bait and the utterly dire Wild Mountain Thyme . With the exception of Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and his chilling turn as a serial killer in The Fall (which was sullied by his admission that he stalked a woman to get into character), his legacy is on shakier ground.

Thankfully, Dornan’s excellent turn in 2022’s twisted BBC thriller The Tourist, which pivoted between nauseatingly tense, blackly comic and surprisingly sweet, turns out not to have been a fluke; its second season is just as joyous a rollercoaster. The first series introduced Dornan as Elliot Stanley, an amnesiac Irishman in the Australian outback trying to piece together his past while a litany of figures tried to lock him up or kill him. His only ally came in the form of people-pleasing Constable Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald).

The pair ended the series having formed the beast with two backs and discovered that Elliot was something of a beast himself. We found out that he stole cash from a gangster for whom he used to smuggle heroin, with one of his victims pulling up her shirt in the finale to reveal how his human mules would be sliced open to retrieve the goods.

Evidently, Helen looked past this reddest of red flags. Season two begins with them on a train to Cambodia 14 months later, still blissfully ensconced in the honeymoon phase. But she has been keeping a secret. She reveals to bushy-bearded Elliot that she has kept a letter with a photograph that was sent to the police station from “Tommy”, telling Elliot it is now “time you found out who you really are”. The two travel to Ireland in search of answers, but needless to say this isn’t going to be a typical family reunion. An impressively violent, gloriously fun caper lies ahead.

Danielle Macdonald in The Tourist series two.

The Tourist perfectly nails a tone that is grisly and rambunctious in equal measure. A heart-stoppingly tense chase through the countryside, in which a van threatens to squish our forgetful protagonist, ends on a superbly silly punchline, with him falling down a never-ending hill, each protracted tumble and roll getting more hilarious. Separated from his loving girlfriend, it’s a fight to stay alive as she tries to figure out what the hell is going on and why everyone in this sleepy patch of rural Ireland is bloodthirsty, deranged or both.

Meanwhile, poor Elliot is in a cycle of capture, escape and recapture by a sadistic crew connected to his colourful past. They are having a whale of a time playing Jigsaw-esque games with him, suggesting he saw off his own legs to escape. Dornan finds the humour with a bemused reaction to this gory but befuddling plan.

The twists come thick and fast: some funny, some cruel, almost all ludicrous. The Tourist is tautly plotted and performed with such flourish that it’s always engaging, even in its most implausible flights of fancy. Its no-holds-barred enthusiasm is hugely infectious.

By the time the fourth of the six episodes that were made available for review concludes, it’s hard to recall precisely how or why we ended up here. The creators’ penchant for a plot twist every 12 minutes or so, and a new villain being introduced just about as frequently, means the recaps at the start of each episode do a lot of the heavy lifting. But even if you struggle to follow exactly who wants what and why they are seeking revenge or a big payout, the show skates by on its charms. The Tourist proves that even if every project has not been able to showcase Dornan’s charms, he certainly has an ample supply at his disposal.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Tourist’ On Netflix, Where Jamie Dornan Plays A Man Without His Memory Trying To Outrun His Past

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What would you do if you lost your memory? Not just what you had for breakfast, but all sense of who you are and who is in your life? Then you find out that someone really, really wants to see you dead? That’s the idea behind the new Netflix series, which originally ran on HBO Max back in 2022.

THE TOURIST : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: Scenes of the arid environment in the Australian Outback. A tiny car drives down an empty road.

The Gist: A man (Jamie Dornan) stops for gas; he’s wearing a generic “AUSTRALIA” tourist t-shirt. He has no idea why the attendant at the station makes him sign out for the bathroom key. We see him come out the back door of the bathroom, next to the Dumpsters.

As he’s driving on the seemingly empty road in his tiny Mazda, a massive tractor trailer bears down on him. When the tractor trailer rams the man’s car, he realizes it’s not just an aggressive driver. After a long chase over some rough terrain, the man thinks he’s gotten away from the truck, when the truck slams into him, causing the tiny car to roll over a few times.

The man wakes up in the local hospital, surprisingly not severely injured. However, he has no idea who he is or what he was doing. He doesn’t even remember his own name. He can recall a song title when he’s in an MRI machine, but that’s about it.

A friendly local cop, Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald), goes to his room to take a statement. She is a bit uncomfortable with the man’s lack of memory, but ends up being reassuring to an extent. The only thing he finds in his possessions is a note to meet someone the next day at a diner in a nearby town. Helen says she’ll look into that.

We follow Helen home and see that, like most of us, she has issues with her weight, not the least of which is exacerbated by her fiancé Ethan (Greg Larsen) and their upcoming wedding.

Another thing we see is someone buried underground. Desperate to get out of whatever box he’s been put in, he tries to call someone on his phone, but no one is answering.

The man goes outside to get air, but gets lost inside the hospital, scaring him senseless. He decides to check himself out of the hospital the next day, against medical advice, because he needs to go to that diner and find out just who wanted to meet him there. Helen understands why he wants to do it, and gives him a bus ticket to get there.

At the diner, he meets a waitress named Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin), who seems to be fascinated by his amnesia. When she spills lemonade on him, she takes him out to where there are bathrooms. Just then, there’s an explosion, right in the booth where he was sitting. He wonders aloud why in the world someone is trying to kill him.

Pictures from a disposable camera found at the crash site help him retrace his steps, as well as video from the gift shop he visited. It brings him back to the gas station and its bathroom. He doesn’t find out his name though, as he signed the key sign-out sheet as “Crocodile Dundee.” But he finds something else; a stuffed koala that he hid next to the Dumpster. Much to his surprise, it starts ringing.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Take the movie  Memento and cross it with the quirkiness of the first season of the  Fargo series, and you’ve got the vibe of  The Tourist.

Our Take: The Tourist , written by Harry Williams and Jack Williams ( The Missing, Fleabag ) looks like it’s a complex show with a twisty plot, but when you really take a close look, it’s pretty straightforward. Dornan’s character has no idea who he is; all he knows is that someone wants to kill him. With the help of Helen and others, he’ll try to piece things together before those that are after him, including Billy (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), the whistling man who almost squashed him in the tractor trailer, catch up to him.

In the first episode,  The Tourist  evolves from what seems like a thriller to a more personal narrative. It’s why we get involved in Helen’s life when she’s off-duty. In a Weight Watchers-style meeting, she claims she doesn’t like her body, even though everyone is yelling about body acceptance. But it also feels like she’s more there because of her fiancé than anything else. So even though Helen knows her name, who’s in her life and what she does, she also hasn’t found herself. Plus, she seems to be made to feel guilty about just about everything.

Perhaps as she gets more involved in the life of Dornan’s character, the more she will figure out who she is. At least that’s what we hope, because Macdonald is utterly charming as Helen, who is very much in the vein of Allison Tolman’s portrayal of Molly Solverson in the aforementioned  Fargo. She’s good at her job, even if she’s a bit green, but also is a friendly and helpful sort who needs to help herself most of all.

There is definitely a bit of a sense of humor running the first episode, but the Williamses aren’t trying to make the show quippy. The humor is there when people seem to be fascinated with Dornan’s character’s amnesia, though he assures them it’s no picnic. The humor creeps in along the edges of the show, but it does just enough to ease what is a pretty serious and grim performance by Dornan.

There is one twist near the end of the episode that we won’t spoil here, but it does make us wonder if, as things get more complicated for Dornan’s character (notice we haven’t named him yet, because the character has none as yet), the plot will become more convoluted. We hope not, as it seems the straightforward manner in which this story is being told suits  The Tourist just fine.

Sex and Skin: Nothing in the first episode.

Parting Shot: When the stuffed koala starts ringing, the man digs out a burner phone and answers it. When the man who’s buried starts yelling in relief that he answered, the man says, “Uh, who’s this?”

Sleeper Star: Shalom Brune-Franklin does some compelling work as Luci, and we know that she’s much more involved in this story than most of the first episode lets on.

Most Pilot-y Line: Nothing we could find.

Our Call:  STREAM IT.  The Tourist  hooked us in with its story, plus the performances by Dornan, Macdonald and Brune-Franklin. Let’s hope the story continues to be interesting as the season goes on.

Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.

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The Tourist season two review: Jamie Dornan is back in one of the best British thrillers of recent years

T he man with no name, no family, no history, is an action movie staple. It evokes memories of Clint Eastwood staring down his enemies in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , or Viggo Mortensen growling through the apocalyptic wasteland of The Road . It is a sure-fire route to a sense of mystery – who is he? What’s he doing here? – but it’s also a creative dead end. You cannot tantalise your viewers forever, and that’s the challenge for the second series of BBC One’s The Tourist , which picks up after the pieces begin to fall into place for our enigmatic hero.

After the ambiguous final moments of The Tourist ’s first season , viewers will be relieved to discover that Elliot ( Jamie Dornan ) is very much alive. In fact, he’s swanning around south Asia with his girlfriend Helen (Danielle Macdonald), who has sacked off her career as a police constable. After a difficult time in Australia (which involved a car crash, loss of memory, and about a dozen attempts on his life), Elliot thinks he’s safe. “Are you really, really – like 100 per cent – sure about that?” Helen asks. Well, of course not. And it takes about five minutes back in his Irish homeland before Elliot is kidnapped by masked goons.

If the first series was a fish-out-of-water thriller, calling to mind Robert A Heinlein’s 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land , this second outing inverts the formula. If there is a tourist now, it’s Helen. For Elliot, this is a return to a native land where people know who he is – or, at least, who he was. “You sound like you’re a long way from home,” a local barkeep tells Helen. “Yeah,” she replies, “I am.” But where the show previously had to rely on the, rather tired, amnesiac trope in order to make Elliot’s discombobulation satisfying, Helen is a more natural tourist. She gallivants around the Irish countryside while Elliot tries to break free of his captors (who needle him with Saw -inspired challenges, such as cutting off his own legs, but played for laughs).

The Tourist has afforded an opportunity for Dornan to show exactly how woefully miscast he was as the icy, dominant Christian in the Fifty Shades franchise. Behind the good looks that saw him model for Calvin Klein in his early years, Dornan is better at projecting vulnerability than confidence. It’s what made his serial killer, Paul Spector, so chilling in The Fall : a cold-blooded killer gripped by a disarming unease with his place in the world. In The Tourist he is neither action hero nor lothario, just a man caught up in events like driftwood floating down the Lagan. “I tried once to end it all,” he tells one of his kidnappers. “But I’m ready to answer for the things that I’ve done.”

Mild-mannered men who are surprisingly au fait with violence and criminality – a genre spawned by Breaking Bad , with the baton passed first to Ozark , and now over to The Tourist – has become television’s most reliable archetype. The Tourist ’s newly expanded canvas gives more narrative control to Helen, which allows the fresh air of a more comic tone into proceedings. Searching for her kidnapped lover, she teams up with Conor MacNeill’s detective, who isn’t quite as normal a police officer as Helen was (to say the least). “I had to go and stick my big nose in it!” she exclaims, as things unravel beyond her control.

Where the original concept of The Tourist was neat and tidy – an unknown Northern Irishman wakes from a car accident in Australia, pursued by assassins whose motive eludes him – this second series is less clean. Ireland is a more familiar place than Australia (more like the Heinlein formula, where a Martian visits Earth), but the interpersonal dealings are more complex than ever. There’s an element of Hatfields and McCoys to the feud between two warring Irish crime dynasties (to one of which, Elliot may be the unwitting heir), which pushes the show away from the mystery genre (though the twists keep coming, with the regularity of a Tuscan highway) and towards the less interesting world of gangsters. In refocusing, something of the tension that typified the Antipodean season is lost.

All the same, The Tourist – which broadcasts on Stan in Australia and HBO in the US, as well as the BBC – is undoubtedly one of the best British thrillers of recent years. The combination of a very sexy protagonist, a slow-burning but believable romance (the chemistry between Dornan and Macdonald is, again, excellent), and stakes that get cranked higher and higher, make this a worthwhile second run. Now it’s no longer a blank slate – an unknown on the schedule – the show is less surprising, but The Tourist ’s return home still has the capacity to thrill.

‘The Tourist’ season two is on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9pm on 1 January 2024

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The Tourist season 2 sees Elliot and Helen going to Ireland in the hope of discovering Elliot’s past. The second season is now streaming on Netflix.

Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers

Plot summary

Fourteen months after the events of the first season, Helen gives Elliot a letter that was delivered to the police station while he was still recovering in the hospital.

Someone named Tommy sent the letter from Ireland, claiming to know Elliot. Helen believes that it is time for Elliot to uncover his past that he has forgotten.

Elliot and Helen go to Ireland to meet Tommy, and soon after, Elliot gets kidnapped. It turns out that Elliot’s real name is Eugene Cassidy, and his mother, whom he does not remember, also lives here.

Helen reports the kidnapping to the Garda. Detective Sergeant Ruairi Slater will be helping Helen find Elliot. 

The siblings who kidnapped Elliot, Donal and Orla McDonnell, send a picture of Elliot to his mother, Niamh, who comes to the police station to question Ruairi about it.

Niamh meets Helen, who tells her about Elliot losing his memory. Niamh has not heard from Elliot for the past seven years since he left without a word.

Helen learns about an age-old family feud between the McDonnells and the Cassidys, two crime families led by Frank McDonnell and Niamh, respectively.

Additionally, it was Lena who sent the letter that brought Elliot to Ireland, as she has joined hands with Donal to make Elliot pay for what he did to her in the past.

When Niamh discovers that Donal kidnapped her son, she retaliates by killing one of Donal’s cousins, unaware that Helen followed her, escalating tension between the two families.

Meanwhile, Elliot manages to escape and it is Donal’s son, Fergal, who helps him. Fergal also tells Elliot that Niamh is his mother.

Helen finds a ring in Elliot’s bag and finds out that he intends to marry her. She then starts going through the information that the police have on Elliot’s kidnapping.

A DNA report tells her that Fergal is Elliot’s son. When Helen goes to inform Ruairi about the same, she finds out that Ruairi has been keeping his wife’s corpse in his basement.

His wife died of cancer, and since then, he has been playing house with a doll that he dresses as his wife. As Helen now knows his secret, Ruairi kidnaps her.

Meanwhile, Helen’s ex-husband, Ethan, has been trying to be a better man. He comes to Ireland to apologize to Helen and show her that he has changed.

He meets Elliot, and the two of them look for Helen together. However, Helen manages to return on her own by dressing up as Ruairi’s wife and helping him get closure.

Ruairi lets Helen go and promises to turn himself in, but before he does that, he meets Ethan. The two men become friends and help each other move on from their mistakes.

Elliot not only meets his mother, who recounts how his older brother, Joe, died in her arms, but also reunites with Helen. 

Helen tells Elliot that Fergal is his son. Elliot wants to contact him, but Frank will only allow it if Elliot brings him a bag that his father left him.

After the cargo plane carrying that bag crashed, a man named Elliot Stanley dived into the water to retrieve it. Niamh had accompanied him.

Niamh killed Elliot and stole the bag. She buried it in the middle of nowhere. It has been years since Frank’s father passed away, but he is still looking for the bag.

When Elliot asks Niamh about the bag, Niamh claims that Frank is lying. She then tells Elliot that Frank killed her brother when he tried to extend a peace offering to end the family feud.

At the same time, Fergal finds out that Elliot, not Donal, is his father. To keep Fergal safe, his mother, Claire, sends him away for some time.

Frank and Donal now want Fergal to prove himself as a McDonnell. As a result, Fergal asks Elliot to meet him at a location where McDonnell men are lying in wait to ambush him.

Upon realizing that Fergal has set him up, Elliot goes to confront him. However, Donal had anticipated this move, allowing him to kidnap Elliot and Helen once again.

Apart from Donal, who wants to kill Elliot because his wife cheated on him with Elliot, Lena also wants to take revenge on Elliot. Lena shoots Helen to make Elliot suffer. 

However, Elliot manages to escape with Helen. He rushes her to the hospital, and she survives but remains in a coma.

Helen keeps dreaming about a life with Elliot, which is overshadowed by her relentless pursuit to uncover his past, driven by her need to know whether Elliot is a good person or not.

While Helen is unconscious, Claire pays Elliot a visit. She tells Elliot that he left after getting Claire pregnant to protect Claire and their child from Donal.

Claire wants Elliot to kill Donal, aware that Donal will not rest until he kills Elliot. As Donal abuses Claire, she will help Elliot kill him.

After a failed attempt, Elliot manages to kidnap Donal and take him to an abandoned building. Donal tells Elliot that this is the place where Joe was killed.

Donal admits that years ago, he mistook Joe for Elliot and killed him. Despite that, Elliot does not kill Donal. Meanwhile, Helen wakes up in the hospital.

Ending explained: 

Helen breaks up with elliot.

Soon after waking up, Helen learns about Donal’s death and suspects that Elliot killed him, given Elliot’s absence when she woke up.

Elliot admits that he lied to her about his whereabouts but insists that he did not kill Donal. However, Helen does not believe him.

On top of that, Elliot is arrested for Donal’s murder, as a gun is found with Elliot’s prints on it. Helen realizes that she does not truly know him, so she no longer trusts him.

She has no way of knowing whether he used to be a good person or a criminal who ruined lives and killed without qualms.

Helen still loves him, but her dream made her realize that love is not enough. As a result, Helen breaks up with Elliot. 

On the brink of war

While Elliot is in prison, Frank cannot kill him, so he gets him released. He then asks Fergal to take revenge on Elliot for Donal’s death.

Fergal then approaches Elliot and asks for his help. As Elliot wants to do the right thing now, he decides to help his son.

Fergal needs a place where he will be safe from Frank, so Elliot takes him to his mother’s pub. However, Fergal is not welcome there. 

Niamh sees him as a threat. It is revealed that she was the one who killed Donal and let Elliot be blamed for it. 

Niamh calls Frank to the pub, and both the families prepare for an all-out war. When Frank arrives there, he brings a bomb with him.

Fergal was supposed to bring the bomb to the pub and harm the Cassidys, but he failed Frank, who is now taking matters into his own hands.

Frank is ready to kill himself as well as everyone else present there if the Cassidys do not let him leave with Fergal.

What did Niamh steal?

Helen is going back home. At the airport, she meets Ethan and Ruairi, and Ruairi tells her that Elliot is being targeted by Frank.

Instead of leaving, Helen then decides to find the bag that Frank’s father left for him. She meets Elliot Stanley’s wife and comes to know about the taxi service that the diver used on the day he died.

Ethan and Ruairi help her investigate, and they eventually find the place where the taxi dropped Elliot Stanley. From there, they find the bag that Niamh stole and buried.

The bag contains the love letters that Frank’s father wrote to Niamh’s mother. Helen then goes to Niamh’s pub and hands them over to Frank. 

She informs him that Niamh is his sister and that Niamh hid the letters because she did not want him to find out the truth.

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Niamh attempts to kill Helen for bringing the truth to light, but Elliot intervenes and stops her. Enraged, Niamh storms out of the pub.

Although she refrains from killing anyone and allows Frank to leave unharmed, Niamh refuses to let go of the past; there is too much history between the two families

Elliot and Helen get back together. Six months later, they are seen living together. Helen is a private investigator now.

Elliot gets a file on himself. Someone tracked him down and sent it to him, but he has yet to read it. He offers to give Helen the file.

However, Helen no longer needs to know about his past to know who he is. Since Elliot also does not care to know about his past, he burns the file.

As the file burns, it is revealed that Eugene Cassidy, who is now Elliot, used to be a special agent.

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The Tourist: what happened in season one? The ultimate recap

Here's all of the drama before the tourist season two that you need to know....

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The Tourist is returning for season two very soon, and sees Jamie Dornan back once again as the amnesiac man being hunted down - though this time he is on the run in Ireland. Since the hit BBC series was released in January 2022, even the biggest fan might need a reminder of what went down in season one, so check out our ultimate recap here… 

In season one, Jamie is on the run from a truck hellbent on trying to murder him. Unfortunately, he doesn’t succeed, and the truck knocks him and his car off the road, badly injuring him. When he wakes up in hospital, he has no memory of who he is or what he is doing in Australia. A kindly police officer, Helen Chambers, attempts to help him as his "only friend in the world". 

Helen, incidentally, is engaged to Ethan, who makes her attend Weight Watcher classes with him and undermines her on every occasion. 

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Jamie sticks with his only clue - a note about a meet-up time and place - and goes to a cafe where he meets a waitress named Luci. Luci shocked when he can’t remember anything about his past. As they leave the cafe,  the table where Jamie was told to wait is blown up - revealing that he narrowly avoided another assassination attempt. 

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After spending some time with Luci, who decides to help him track down his identity and why he is being pursued, he discovers that he and Luci know one another after all, and she reveals his real name: Elliot Stanley. 

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Elliot continues to have dreams about a woman named Lena Pascal, who he feels is connected to his past and who he needs to find. It becomes apparent that the Crime boss Kostas Panigiris is behind the hunt for Elliot, who owes him a lot of money which has disappeared. 

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Elliot realises that he has a connection to Kostas and his associate, Marko, and was involved in their crime operation. It is eventually revealed that he was Kostas’ accountant who fell in love and ran away with his fiancee, Luci, stealing a bag of money to start their new lives. He discovers the bag of cash while having a face-off with Kostas, who is killed. However, Luci is also wounded in the aftermath and dies.  

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He then discovers that he was never a good person, and Lena was actually a woman who smuggled heroin for him, and who he performed surgery on to remove the drugs. Despite having a blossoming friendship with Elliot, which ultimately leads her to become a completely different person and break up with her fiancé, Helen is shocked by his actions and turns from him. 

Despondent, Elliot attempts to die by suicide, but after some reflection, Helen appears to forgive him by sending him a burrito emoji, which they agreed in an earlier conversation meant that everything was good. Now, who’s ready for season two?!

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The official synopsis reads: "Set against the striking backdrop of Ireland, the upcoming series sees Elliot and Helen dragged into a longstanding feud and forced to deal with the consequences of his past actions. After Elliot quickly goes missing, Helen seeks the help of Detective Ruairi Slater before secrets of Elliot’s past are later uncovered." 

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The show begins with The Man (Jamie Dornan) driving across the Australian Outback. He stops at the Saddlepack Roadhouse for petrol and asks to utilize the toilet. The clerk, Tony (Jasper Bagg) requires customers to sign for the toilet key. He asks why and denies trying to buy it. He inspects the toilet, opens a door leading to the back of the store, and returns the key to Tony. After leaving, a semi-truck passes the convenience store in the same direction. He sings “Bette Davis Eyes” as the semi comes up from behind.

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He pulls off the highway at Burnt Ridge, with the semi in tow. The truck rams into the back of The Man’s car multiple times. He watches the truck come up from his right. He veers off to the left to avoid hitting it. He travels through trees, forcing the truck to come to a halt. He reenters the highway and celebrates his success. A short distance down the road, the semi-truck hits the car from the driver’s side, causing it to turn over.

The Man wakes up in Cooper Springs Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital with no ID or cellphone. The nurse asks if he has someone to call. He doesn’t remember the accident or his identity. During an MRI, he listens to “If I Didn’t Care” by Ink Spots. He asks the technician to play “If I Didn’t Care,” but doesn’t know if it is an album or a song.

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Cooper Springs Police Department Probationary Constable Helen Chambers (Danielle MacDonald) arrives at the hospital to question The Man. It is her first proper investigation. She specializes in traffic cases. He does not remember anything about the accident or his past life. She is shocked and has nothing to document in her notebook. Trying to remember is like trying to fly. She anxiously apologizes and tosses her pen across the room. The nurse gives him the clothes he was wearing upon arrival at the hospital. He searches the pants pockets and finds a note, with tomorrow’s date and an address to Gloria’s Diner. Chambers says the place is a small town to the north, the date could be tomorrow, last month, or next month.

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The Man gives her the okay to say whatever she is thinking. A man driving through the Outback with no money, no phone, and no memory. He asks if she thinks he is lying.

Chambers stops for a chicken burger at Ronny’s, a fast-food joint. The clerk offers her a promotional deal, with additional cheese pockets. She eventually gives in. She eats her chicken burger while listening to classic music and dancing with her hands.

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The Man gets out of bed to go get fresh air. He is tired of looking at the ceiling. The nurse takes him outside in a wheelchair and asks if it is what he expected. At least, he is no longer looking at the ceiling. He encounters a group of people congratulating someone for the birth of a baby. He takes the elevator back to his room but doesn’t remember the floor. He gets off on the third floor and searches for his room. A hospital worker asks if he is okay. He says, “I don’t know where the fu** I am.” The worker takes him to his room and helps him in bed.

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Chambers arrives home and crams her fast-food wrapping in the dashboard before going inside. Ethan Krum (Greg Larsen) prepared avocado and roast beetroot. He wants to practice dancing for their wedding. Grinning, she says, “Oh, now, I just walked in.” as they dance, she talks about The Man who has no memory.

A man speaking Greek tries to scratch his way out of an underground coffin. He pleads for help.

Chambers visits The Man who demands to leave the hospital without medical advice. She tries to convince him to stay but he refuses. She gives him money for the bus fare and hopes he find what he is looking for.

The Man takes a commuter bus to Gloria’s. Diner. The note says to be at table 5 at 2:30pm. The bus driver alerts the passengers they have arrived at Burnt Ridge, which appears to be abandoned. He is met by a waitress, Sandy (Jeanette Cronin) who likes his accent. She asks what he is doing in Burnt Ridge. He says she wouldn’t believe him. Sandy tells Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) about The Man and his memory loss. He breathes a sigh of relief when a customer enters the diner. Luci spies on The Man from the kitchen.

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Luci delivers a lemonade to his table. She has never met someone with amnesia and asks if she can do something to help. He tells her to give him the lemonade, which she spills. The toilet is not working, so she escorts him across the road. She apologizes for laughing when Gloria’s diner explodes. Sandy wasn’t injured in the explosion.

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Chambers speaks at a Trim Team weight loss seminar. She talks about people teasing overweight people. If she loses weight, then she has given in. She tears up during her speech. Ethan says she did well for the first time. She r perceives a call from Sergeant Rodney Lammon (Kamil Ellis) at the Burnt Ridge Police Force during the meeting. The police have discovered The Man’s overturned vehicle.

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The Man sets across the street from Gloria’s diner. He believes someone is trying to kill him. He takes a sip of his beer and says, “Oh, fu** me, that’s lovely, hope I didn’t use to be an alcoholic.” Luci drops him off at a rooming house. Ralph (Dannie Adcock) answers the door and points toward Sue (Genevieve Lemon). She charges 30 for the night but accepts his 20 and gets him a key. She gives the money to Ralph. She gives hi a hug to make him feel better. He breaks down and apologizes.

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A man buried underground becomes short of breath while scratching the wall. He struggles to get his phone from an unknown caller.

The Man receives a phone call from Chambers. She is surprised he remembers her name. Sergeant Lammon found his camera at the crash site. She agrees to send him copies of the images from the phone to Sue’s email address. An officer asks what she is doing at his desk. She doesn’t have one yet. The Man looks at the images of the Nala Stone Men, which is about 10K from their current location. Sue offers to take him in the morning and says they can watch Survivor.

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Billy (Olafur Darri Olafsson) arrives with a bouquet of flowers at the hospital. He asks a hospital worker The Man’s room number. He asks where he went. Billy’s mother was a nurse, it is fine work. He tells a parking attendant the machine at his ticket. His mother worked at a parking lot, it is fine work. He whistles while waiting for the parking attendant to lift the barrier.

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The Man dreams of a woman. He unwraps the bandage from his ankle before getting out of bed. Sue drives him to Nala Stone Man. She is unnerved by his knuckle popping. He apologizes, “Habit, I guess.” A news segment on the radio says the explosion at Gloria’s Dinner was caused by a bomb. Sue says, “a bomb.” They arrive at Nala Stone Man. He still can’t remember. He visits the gift shop and asks for the surveillance footage from about three days ago. The clerk thinks his amnesia is awesome. On the 24 th , he enters the gift shop, which his shirt torn. Ralph helps interpret what he asks the clerk who gives him directions to the Saddlepack Roadhouse.

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Sue gives him a strange look when he gets out of the vehicle. Tony calls him “The Comedian” but denies knowing him. He doesn’t remember signing for the toilet key. He asks Tony if he was trying to buy it.  He signed his name as “Crocodile Dundee.” He looks around the toilet and opens the door to the back. As he prepares to leave, he discovers the stuffed koala lying between a wall and a trash dumpster.

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Luci grabs a beer out of the refrigerator and listens to “If I Didn’t Care” by Ink Spots. She stares at The Man’s photo on her phone. She has several images of them together stored in her phone.

As The Man walks back to the car, he hears a phone ringing. The phone is hidden inside the koala bear. He answers the call from the man buried underground. He pleads for help as the episode comes to an end.

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The Tourist Review

As a big fan of Jamie Dornan, I decided to give the show a shot. It started out a bit shaky, about 15 minutes in, the actors began to settle into their roles. The cast is quite extensive for a 6-episode TV series. This basically means, there will be limited screen time for many of the characters.

The plot is not original, as it has been seen before in Duel and Breakdown, with Kurt Russel. After the first episode, there is no guarantee which route the show will take. At least, the amnesia tidbit is intriguing.

Can’t wait to see what will happen next. The episode deserves a 6.5.

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I can’t find anything about the Nala Stone Men at either park or anywhere else. I’d have to say it was made up for the show although it could be based on some other rock structures in the area.

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The Tourist season 1 episode 4 spoilers: More devastation to come

The Tourist January 9, 2022

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At this point, we should go ahead and now say that we’re at the halfway point in the season! More than likely, we’re going to see things continue to build from one week to the next. There’s a lot of shocking stuff that we’re going to see unfold. We have to get some sort of answers as to what’s next for The Man, and how we’re going to continue to see his journey unfold. Let’s just go ahead and hope that the show finds a way to tie together some of the loose ends.

For now, let’s just say that Jamie Dornan’s character is going to be traveling further and further into the Outback, ready to take on whatever problems lie ahead for him there.

Below, you can check out the full  The Tourist  season 1 episode 4 synopsis with more updates as to what lies ahead:

The chaotic events of the previous episode propel The Man (Jamie Dornan) and Helen (Danielle Macdonald) further into the outback and Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is left to fight on her own.

With nowhere else to turn, and a trail of bodies in his wake, The Man is forced to use Helen to ensure he stays alive long enough to discover who he is. But their journey soon leads them to a grisly discovery that changes everything.

Meanwhile, Kosta (Alex Dimitriades) and Dimitri (Alex Andreas) fly to Australia. Upon their arrival, Kosta proves quite how dangerously unpredictable he can be. Paths converge, and Lachlan (Damon Herriman) is given a renewed urgency to find his suspect. But the course of events takes an unlikely and devastating turn, after Lachlan makes a grave decision.

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There’s a way to make a movie like "The Tourist," but Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck doesn’t find that way. Here is a romantic comedy crossed with a crime thriller, shot in Paris and Venice, involving a glamorous mystery woman and a math teacher from Wisconsin. The plot is preposterous. So what you need is a movie that floats with bemusement above the cockamamie, and actors who tease each other.

As the mystery woman, Angelina Jolie does her darnedest. She gets the joke. Here is a movie in which she begins in a Paris cafe, eludes cops by dashing into the Metro, takes an overnight train to Venice, picks up a strange man ( Johnny Depp ) and checks them both into the Royal Danelli without one wrinkle on her dress or one hair out of place. And is sexy as hell. This is the Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly role, and she knows it.

Depp is in the Cary Grant role of the obliging, love-struck straight man who finds himself neck deep in somebody else’s troubles. In theory, these two should engage in witty flirtation and droll understatement. In practice, no one seems to have alerted Depp that the movie is a farce. I refer to farce in the dictionary sense, of course: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Depp, however, plays his math teacher seriously and with a touch of the morose.

The plot involves — oh, hell, you know, the usual mystery man who has stolen millions from a gangster and gone into hiding while smuggling instructions to Jolie, his lover, instructing her to take the train to Venice, etc. And the cops from Scotland Yard who are tailing her in hopes of nailing the guy. And the gangster and his hit men who are also on the thief’s trail. And chases over the rooftops of Venice, dinner on a train, a scene in a casino, designer gowns and a chase through the canals with Jolie at the controls of a motor taxi, and...

Well, there was really only one cliche left, and I was grateful when it arrived. You know how a man in a high place will look down and see a canvas awning that might break his fall, and he jumps into it? Yep. And it’s shielding a fruit cart at the open-air market and he lands on the oranges and runs off, leaving the cart owner shaking his fist. This is a rare example of the Vertical Fruit Cart Scene, in which the cart is struck not from the side but from the top.

The supporting roles are filled by excellent actors, and it’s a sign of the movie’s haplessness that none of them make a mark. You have Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton as cops, Steven Berkoff as the gangster and Rufus Sewell as "The Englishman," who must be important because he hangs around without any apparent purpose. Once in London, I saw Berkoff play a cockroach in his adaptation of Kafka’s "Metamorphosis." It might have helped if he’d tried the cockroach again.

A depressing element is how much talent "The Tourist" has behind the camera. Writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made " The Lives of Others ," which won the 2007 Oscar for best foreign film. The screenplay is by Christopher McQuarrie (Oscar winner for " The Usual Suspects ") and Julian Fellowes (Oscar winner for " Gosford Park "), along with von Donnersmarck. It’s based on a French film written by Jerome Salle , which was nominated for a Cesar. All three "Tourist" writers seem to have used their awards as doorstops.

It doesn’t matter that the plot is absurd. That goes with the territory. But if it’s not going to be nonstop idiotic action, then the acting and dialogue need a little style and grace and kidding around. Jolie plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-dead sexuality. Depp plays his Wisconsin math teacher as a man waiting for the school bell to ring so he can go bowling. The other actors are concealed in the shadows of their archetypes. Cary Grant would have known how to treat a lady.

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The Tourist (2010)

Rated PG for violence and brief strong language

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  • Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
  • Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole. — Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
  • A woman sitting in a Parisian café reads a letter telling her to take the train to Venice, pick a man of the sender's height and build, and chat him up. She's being watched: Scotland Yard and a mobster with a crew of Russian thugs are looking for a man she knows. On the train, she talks to an American, Frank, suggests they have dinner, and, once in Venice, invites him to her hotel. The bait is set: the Russians think Frank is the man they want: Alexander Pearce, who stole billions from the mobster. Scotland Yard realizes Frank is a just a tourist, but by now he's in danger, smitten by the mystery woman, and in their way. Can the Yard keep Frank from death and still catch Pearce? — <[email protected]>
  • A woman named Elise (Angelina Jolie) is being trailed in Paris by French police working with Scotland Yard. At a cafe, she receives a letter from Alexander Pearce, a former lover, with explicit directions to board a train to Venice, Italy, pick out a man who resembles him, and make the police believe that this man is Alexander Pearce. A mysterious stranger, not involved with the police, also seems to be watching Elise. Elise burns the letter and boards a train. She takes a seat across from Frank (Johnny Depp), an American tourist reading a spy novel. Frank is instantly attracted to her. The train arrives in Venice, and she invites him to go with her on a boat to the Hotel Danieli. At dinner, much to Frank's dismay, Elise admits to having feelings for another man, presumably Alexander Pearce. Later, on her room's balcony they share a kiss, witnessed by the men following her. The next day, Frank awakens to find Elise gone. Men suddenly try to break into the hotel room. Frank barely escapes by running over several roofs in his pajamas, but is caught by the Italian police. A sympathetic detective listens to Frank's story that he does not know why these men are after him. He takes Frank from the jail and tells him that his story checks out and that the men after him were Belarusians, who have placed a price on his head and believe Frank to be someone else. The detective, however, then delivers Frank into the clutches of these same men, in order to collect the money they promised. Elise suddenly appears with a boat to rescue Frank, and they flee together. Elise finally tells Frank that all this is happening because she kissed him and made the police believe that he was Alexander Pearce. Frank learns that Pearce stole two billion dollars from a gangster named Shaw (Steven Berkoff) and is also wanted by the British Government for tax evasion. Stunned by the news, Frank says he still does not regret kissing Elise. Elise apologizes for getting him involved at all and tricks Frank off the boat. Frank says he loves her. Elise goes to a government building. She turns out to be a British secret agent. She sees her fellow British agent Acheson (Paul Bettany), who was among those following her in Paris. Elise was supposed to work undercover against Pearce but fell in love with him and had disappeared from her job until now. She tells Acheson that she is ready to help him find Pearce now because she wants to prevent anybody else from getting hurt. Elise goes to a ball Pearce has invited her to attend, wearing a wire. She is handed a letter by the same mysterious stranger from Paris. The letter is from Pearce, saying where to meet him. As Elise turns to leave, Frank appears and prevents her exit. They dance. Elise leaves to find Pearce, and agent Acheson's men apprehend Frank. They both watch on surveillance equipment as Elise walks into a trap set by the gangster Shaw. The gangster threatens to kill her unless she reveals the location of the safe holding the money Pearce stole from him. Agent Acheson doesn't intervene for his colleague Elise, confident that Pearce will show up to rescue her. Elise reveals the safe's location but does not know its code. Frank watches in horror as Elise is threatened yet again. Seeing that Acheson won't help Elise, Frank picks the lock to his handcuffs and escapes to help her. Frank pretends to be Pearce. Elise begs him to stop or he will be killed. Frank, acting as Pearce, tells Shaw that he will get his money, but only if Elise is first released and safe. As Frank pretends that he is about to open the safe, Elise mouths "I love you." All of a sudden, Chief Inspector Jones (Timothy Dalton) gives the order for the police snipers to shoot Shaw and his men. Frank and Elise are unharmed. As the police survey the scene, agent Acheson can't believe that Pearce did not save Elise, and Jones is furious with him for exposing her to danger. Jones then informs Elise that she has been terminated from the force. A police report informs them that Pearce has just been caught. As the room clears, Elise and Frank embrace. He asks her if she loves both him and Alexander Pearce. Elise answers yes. To spare her from this dilemma, Frank demonstrates that he is the real Alexander Pearce by entering the correct code for the safe. Pearce had gotten plastic surgery, so he could have a new life. Meanwhile, the arrested man believed to be Pearce explains to police that he was paid to pose as him but that he is really just a tourist. Elise and Frank/Pearce leave on a boat with the money, finally being able to be together. In the open safe, police find a bankers check for the 744 million pounds in back taxes Pearce owed the British government.

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The Tourist

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Watch The Tourist with a subscription on Netflix.

Cast & Crew

Jamie Dornan

Danielle Macdonald

Helen Chambers

Shalom Brune-Franklin

Luci Miller

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Billy Nixon

Geneviève Lemon

Danny Adcock

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COMMENTS

  1. 'The Tourist' Season 2 Twist Ending Explained

    Danielle Macdonald as Helen Chambers in "The Tourist" Season 2. Getty Images. No, Helen does not die in The Tourist Season 2.In Episode 5, viewers see Helen get shot in the stomach by Lena (the ...

  2. 'The Tourist' Season 2 Ending Explained: What Did Elliot ...

    Decider spoke with Dornan ahead of the Netflix release of the new season. The Irish actor expressed that Elliot and Helen's decision to burn the file was a "good thing.". "They need to try ...

  3. The Tourist (TV Series 2022-2024)

    The Tourist: Created by Harry Williams, Jack Williams. With Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Greg Larsen, Victoria Haralabidou. When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

  4. The Tourist recap

    At the start of The Tourist season 1, we were introduced to an Irish man (Jamie Dornan) who was seemingly on the run across Australia. In his first scene, a truck purposefully ran him off the road ...

  5. 'The Tourist' Season 1 Ending Explained & Series Recap: What Will

    Chambers, who had feelings for Elliot, decided to break her marriage with Ethan and left to rescue Elliot. By the time Chambers reached Elliot, both of them were wanted for many crimes that happened in Copper Springs recently. The duo decided to prove that Rogers was lying, but Chambers needed time to dig up evidence.

  6. The Tourist series two review

    The Tourist series two review - Jamie Dornan is hugely charming in this gloriously fun show This article is more than 2 months old This raucous, entertaining thriller is the perfect vehicle for ...

  7. The Tourist (TV series)

    The Tourist is a drama thriller television series. It stars Jamie Dornan as the victim of a car crash who wakes up in a hospital in Australia with amnesia.. The series premiered on 1 January 2022 on BBC One in the UK, the next day on Stan in Australia, and on 3 March on HBO Max in the US. It is distributed internationally by All3Media.. In March 2022, the series was renewed for a second series ...

  8. The Tourist movie review & film summary (2022)

    HBO Max continues stealth drops of some of the best drama mini-series on television. Last year highlights included "The Head" and "Station Eleven," and they start 2022 strongly with the fantastic "The Tourist," a twisty tale that plays like an Aussie version of "Fargo."With sharp dialogue, clever plotting, and career-best work from Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald, this is a ...

  9. 'The Tourist' Netflix Review: Stream It Or Skip It?

    Our Call: STREAM IT. The Tourist hooked us in with its story, plus the performances by Dornan, Macdonald and Brune-Franklin. Let's hope the story continues to be interesting as the season goes ...

  10. The Tourist season two review: Jamie Dornan is back in one of the ...

    The Tourist season two review: Jamie Dornan is back in one of the best British thrillers of recent years - 3/5 Some of the tension is lost in this second run, which relocates the action to Ireland ...

  11. The Tourist season 2 summary and ending explained

    The Tourist season 2 sees Elliot and Helen going to Ireland in the hope of discovering Elliot's past. The second season is now streaming on Netflix. ... Plot summary. Fourteen months after the events of the first season, Helen gives Elliot a letter that was delivered to the police station while he was still recovering in the hospital.

  12. The Tourist: what happened in season one? The ultimate recap

    20 Dec 2023. Emmy Griffiths TV & Film Editor. emmyfg. The Tourist is returning for season two very soon, and sees Jamie Dornan back once again as the amnesiac man being hunted down - though this ...

  13. 'The Tourist' Netflix Recap & Ending Explained: What Happens To Kosta

    Luci is a pathological liar, as her idea of the world was forged by her father walking out on her. After meeting In Bali, Luci and Elliot fall for each other and decide to leave the criminal world and run away to Australia, stealing the million dollars from Kosta's prized possessions. Having lost a memento from his past and his fiancé, Kosta ...

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  15. Watch The Tourist

    The Tourist. 2024 | Maturity Rating: 16+ | 2 Seasons | Thriller. In the Australian Outback, a man wakes up in the hospital with no idea who he is — or why so many people want him dead. Starring: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin. Creators: Harry Williams, Jack Williams.

  16. The Tourist Season 1 Episode 1 Recap

    The Tourist Review. As a big fan of Jamie Dornan, I decided to give the show a shot. It started out a bit shaky, about 15 minutes in, the actors began to settle into their roles. The cast is quite extensive for a 6-episode TV series. This basically means, there will be limited screen time for many of the characters. ...

  17. An Introduction to Dorset

    Dorset. Dorset on the south coast of England is just over 100 miles from London and is accessible in just over two hours by rail. Chill out in Dorset and explore the historic coastal scenery and stunning countryside alike. Venture into the landscape that inspired Thomas Hardy, through bluebell woods, across golden heaths and drink in the pretty ...

  18. The Tourist Season 2: Release Date, Plot, Cast, Ending ...

    The Tourist. 's Complicated, Dance-Filled Ending. The drama moves from the Australian outback to Ireland for Season 2. By Ariana Romero and Jean Bentley. Feb. 29, 2024. "Nothing is ever as it seems on The Tourist ," Jamie Dornan tells Tudum. The thriller series stars the Heart of Stone actor Jamie Dornan as Elliot, a man who wakes up one ...

  19. The Tourist season 1 episode 4 spoilers: More devastation to come

    Below, you can check out the full The Tourist season 1 episode 4 synopsis with more updates as to what lies ahead: The chaotic events of the previous episode propel The Man (Jamie Dornan) and Helen (Danielle Macdonald) further into the outback and Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is left to fight on her own. With nowhere else to turn, and a trail ...

  20. The Tourist Trail

    Eat & Drink. Attractions. What's On. Holidays & Tours. England. Northern Ireland. Scotland. Wales. Here at The Tourist Trail, we provide a platform for local and national tourism through unique county trails and the latest events, offers and attractions.

  21. The Tourist movie review & film summary (2010)

    A depressing element is how much talent "The Tourist" has behind the camera. Writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made "The Lives of Others," which won the 2007 Oscar for best foreign film.The screenplay is by Christopher McQuarrie (Oscar winner for "The Usual Suspects") and Julian Fellowes (Oscar winner for "Gosford Park"), along with von Donnersmarck.

  22. The Tourist (2010)

    Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police.

  23. The Tourist

    Billy Nixon. Geneviève Lemon. Sue. Danny Adcock. Ralph. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A man wakes up in the Australian Outback with no recollection of who he is, and he must try to piece together ...