FIRST LOOK Red Eye

Jing Lusi returns alongside guest cast member Martin Compston on New Year's Day.

ITV1 has confirmed that the second series of Red Eye will return on New Year's Day with Jing Lusi reprising her role as DS Hana Li for a new investigation alongside guest star Martin Compston.

Joining Jing and Martin in the highly pressurised, rollercoaster world of Red Eye, are Lesley Sharp and Jemma Moore, who also return as Head of MI5 Madeline Delaney and journalist Jess Li.

New cast members joining Martin Compston include Isaura Barbe-Brown, Nicholas Rowe, Danusia Samal, Trevor White and Guy Williams.

Inside the US Embassy, the celebrations for a newly appointed US Ambassador to London are shattered when a call, threatening to blow a British plane out of the sky if anyone leaves, triggers an immediate embassy lockdown, trapping guests and staff inside. And that’s when the murders begin, landing Hana Li, as a British cop, in a political and jurisdictional nightmare.

Compelled to join forces with the Head of Embassy Security, Clay Brody, played by Martin Compston, a former colleague who once screwed her over, Hana has to see her way past her distrust of him and focus on the investigation. Because this time it’s personal. The plane that will be blown up is a government jet, and Director General Madeline Delaney is on board.

With a killer wreaking havoc inside the Embassy and evading them at every turn, Hana and Brody must discover who is behind the treacherous plot before time runs out for the hostages within the Embassy and the passengers on board Delaney’s plane.

Red Eye is produced by Wales-based independent production company Bad Wolf with Peter A Dowling crafting and writing the intense and ambitious thriller full of his signature twists and turns, with Jingan Young writing episode three with him. Kieron Hawkes returns to direct episodes 1-3, with Camilla Strøm Henriksen directing episodes 4-6.

The new series will be produced by Chris May and executive produced by Julie Gardner, Peter A Dowling and Lachlan MacKinnon.

Red Eye 2 returns New Year's Day on ITV1