Cush Jumbo’s June Lenker takes control in a new sneak peek from Season 2, Episode 6 of Criminal Record, and the order she gives changes the shape of the operation in a single breath. She tells the team the mission is being shut down and that an arrest will be made, even as the hunt around them is still active.
The clip landed now because Criminal Record is deep into its second season and the story has moved past the original murder inquiry into a far more dangerous phase. The Apple TV series, set in contemporary London, follows June and Daniel Hegarty as rival police officers forced into an uneasy alliance after a young man was stabbed to death at a political rally and the case widened into an undercover effort to stop a Far-Right bomb plot in the heart of London.
That wider arc gives the sneak peek its weight. Jumbo plays June opposite Peter Capaldi’s Daniel Hegarty, and the new footage catches her speaking to the group with the certainty of someone who has already made up her mind. Members of the team push back in the absence of their leader, but June makes clear she is in command. For a late-season episode, that is the kind of turn that can reset who is following orders and who is still trying to control the outcome.
It also fits the larger fallout around June, who has been grappling with what she uncovered about Hegarty. The series has built its second season on the strain between the two officers, and the sneak peek turns that strain into an immediate problem: if the operation is being shut down, what happens to the people still working to stop Cosmo Thompson’s plans? Cosmo, played by Dustin Demri-Burn, remains part of the threat, even if June is trying to bring the operation to a close.
That is the sharp edge of the new clip. June can end the operation on paper, but the danger inside it does not disappear with a command. The episode leaves her trying to hold authority, close the case and force an arrest at the same time, while the team is still in motion and the real question is whether anyone is actually able to stop the plot before it breaks wide open.

