And the person on the other end of the phone line is a bit of an everyday hero. You don't know what they look like, they don't know what you look like, yet despite that anonymity you are so dependent on them and you're reaching out to them. Their manner is so important', and 't's such an intense relationship, such an intense conversation with, who you’ve never spoken to before, and you’re never gonna speak to again. He explained, 'So when I then sat down and was trying to think of the story, when everything's okay, I just thought back to that and how, just for a few minutes, you don't know if things are going to be alright and you're so desperate,' and in those 'desperate few minutes, I realised sort of how profoundly the person on the other end of the line can help you and affect you. Leather was inspired to write the series by a real-life health-scare that happened with his daughter. Conor McLeod as Ross, another, junior, member of the control room.Garry Sweeney as Sean, the head of the criminal enterprise Anthony has become embroiled into and threatens his, Sam and Gabe's lives.Taqi Nazeer as Jat, a jovial member of the control room.Jatinder Singh Randhawa as Tah, a housemate of Gabe's engaged in criminal activity of his own.Daniel Cahill as Robbo, a former childhood bully/friend of Gabe and Sam's, who blames Gabe for causing the fire at the Christmas tree farm that killed his father.Rona Morison as Danni, working at the control room and, surreptitiously, under Anthony's thumb.Stuart Bowman as Ian Maver, Gabe's father the two have been estranged for some time, their relationship fraught since the death of the family matriarch when Gabe was a child.Sharon Rooney as DI Anna Breck, the lead detective on the case investigating the call to the control room, who grows suspicious of Gabe's actions.Daniel Portman as Anthony, the outgoing control room supervisor, who blackmails Gabe into criminal activity on his behalf.Taj Atwal as Leigh, the duty manager of the control room, who is in a secret relationship with Gabe and becomes growingly frustrated at his behaviour.Joanna Vanderham as Sam Tolmie, a former childhood friend of Gabe's they became close to each other with the absence of their mothers from their lives as kids, and as an adult ropes Gabe into covering up a crime.Iain De Caestecker as Gabe Maver, a reserved member of the control room, who is thrown back into his painful past upon receiving a call from someone from his childhood.

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