FX’s The Veil takes the audience into the world Sports betting site B Sports of international espionage on a personal and global scale. The series follows CIA agent Imogen Salter (Elisabeth Moss), who is tasked with taking Adilah El Idrissi (Yumna Marwan) on a trip from Istanbul to Paris and London. All the while, however, Salter is attempting to get El Idrissi to reveal a secret that could save thousands of lives. The series also follows the CIA’s Max Peterson (Josh Charles) and the French DGSE’s Malik Amar (Dali Benssalah), both of whom must put aside their prospective agency’s differences in order to help Imogen complete her mission.
Peterson works for the CIA in counter-terrorism and finds himself swept up into this mission. “He’s kind of written as a bit of an instigator, as a disrupter. So he’s a bit of a s*** stirrer,” Charles told GameSpot. “He brings in some darkish humor, and what I think is interesting is that there’s a lot of ‘loosey goosey’ on top, and a lot of language and making fun of the fringe. Underneath all of it, there’s a lot of order and a lot of discipline. He’s one of these guys that grew up in this world with a military background, and he’s been doing this a long time, so it feels like he knows the rules so well that he could just kind of push them all the way to the edge.”