Jay Kohli

**Jay Kohli** is an Intelligence Officer with the Security Service.

## Background

### Professional

It can be assumed that he primarily works out of Thames House, the headquarters of the Security Service in London. However, he and his colleagues are also seen utilising a small field office in Glasgow based in a regular office building.

## Series 1

### Episode 3

Kohli and his colleague Laura Michaels are summoned to HM Naval Base Dunloch by RAdm. Shaw to explain why it has been discovered it was an unknown *Los Angeles* class submarine with the United States Navy that was tracking HMS *Vigil* and responsible for the sinking of the *Mhairi Finnea*. He informs Shaw that they will contact the Pentagon about it.

His colleague Michaels however states it is likely the shadowing was due to tensions caused between the two countries navies after an incident whilst *Vigil* was docked at Naval Base Port Havers in Florida. Kohli and Michaels later visit DSU Colin Robertson at the Scottish Police Service National Headquarters regarding the investigation into the deaths of CPO Craig Burke and Jade Antoniak.

Shaw is later seen contacting an unknown person by phone telling them that he has a situation that needs to be "contained". At the same time, DS Kirsten Longacre is tailed in her car by an unmarked SUV. After pulling into a carpark and calling for backup, she approaches the car to be greeted by Kohli and Michaels, who say she needs to come with them.

### Episode 4

Kohli and Michaels escort DS Kirsten Longacre to a nondescript MI5 field office located in an office block in Glasgow, and question her about the statement she made to the Royal Navy about the incident in Naval Base Port Havers. He warns her that whoever leaked the classified information about the incident to her is breaking the law and jeopardising national security, and that as a police officer she is obliged to cooperate and could face charges otherwise. They then go on to ask her what she discussed with Patrick Cruden MP. Their questioning is cut short by DSU Colin Robertson, who enters the room and informs them that any further questions need to be put to Longacre in writing, through him.

Kohli and Michaels later appear at the Scottish Police Service National Headquarters and have Robertson terminate an interview conducted by Longacre and DS Porter of Peter Ingles, a man they have just arrested on suspicion of murdering Jade Antoniak. They inform the officers that his real name is Pitor Vasiliev, and that he is a Russian GRU operative working out of the Russian Embassy, and thus has full diplomatic immunity. Kohli reveals they have already approached the Russians and asked them to revoke the immunity, but they have declined. After Ingles/Vasiliev is released, Kohli tells the officers that it is "practically unheard of" for undercover intelligence operatives with such diplomatic immunity to be so physically involved; they often run other agents.

The two agents later accompany Robertson and Longacre to HM Naval Base Dunloch to meet with RAdm. Shaw, where they discuss their findings on Ingles and his potential involvement with a wider conspiracy involving *Vigil*; primarily that he may have been in contact with someone in the Royal Navy who is currently on board *Vigil*. Kohli expresses doubt that CPO Craig Burke was murdered by the Russians, arguing if anything they would want him to whistleblow the various issues with the *Vanguard* class submarines as it would embarrass the navy.