BBC requested a second season

God help us.

Here is an excerpt from an interview today (December 17) with the writer Tom Rob Smith, in recognition of London Spy being in the Guardian's top 10 shows of the year.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/dec/17/tom-rob-smith-london-spy-i-was-surprised-that-sex-scene-shocked-anyone

Have you considered a second series?

The BBC have asked and my instinct is that it probably shouldn’t continue. If you’ve lost the two central relationships, who would you be spinning Danny through? I preferred Charlotte and Ben going head to head, I don’t know whether they’d have the same spark as friends.

How will Danny and Frances be spending Christmas?

Still driving … They’ll be having a cup of coffee at a service station. There were five more pages in the script hinting at where Danny might be in the future. The clue is when Harriet Walter’s character takes him into the library – I thought something that could keep him close to Alex would be going into education, that he could find himself there.

No indication there that Alex could be resurrected. So leave it alone.