In Apple TV+’s new espionage thriller, “Prime Target,” created by Steve Thompson, Cambridge University Ph.D. candidate Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) is on the cusp of uncovering a new way to view prime numbers.

New Apple TV+ thriller series Prime Target follows a maths genius on the verge of a breakthrough, who finds himself the target of an international conspiracy. Said genius, Edward Brooks, is played by One Day star Leo Woodall,

A formulaic eight-part thriller, Prime Target revolves around an outstanding but standoffish Cambridge postgrad mathematician called Edward, whose esoteric research into prime numbers sequences inadvertently gives him the tools to access any computer and control the entire digital world.