Who is Sophie Alekan in The Night Manager?
The woman in Cairo who trusted the night manager · The Casualties
Sophie Alekan (The woman in Cairo who trusted the night manager) is a character in The Night Manager, part of The Casualties. Sophie Alekan is the mistress of a Cairo strongman's son — elegant, trapped, and in possession of documents detailing an arms sale that could burn its broker. She gives them to the courteous English night manager because he is the only safe-seeming thing in the hotel, and asks for so little: discretion, a copy, perhaps a way out. What happens to Sophie is the series' founding debt — the reason Pine says yes years later, and the name he is settling accounts for in every scene of the operation.
When does Sophie Alekan first appear?
Sophie Alekan first appears in Season 1, Episode 1 of The Night Manager (2016, BBC/AMC).
Who is Sophie Alekan connected to?
Relationships already established when Sophie Alekan first appears — nothing from later episodes.
- Jonathan Pine — Cairo — the founding debt
Who else is introduced in this episode?
- Jonathan Pine — The night manager with the soldier underneath
- Richard Roper — The worst man in the world, charming about it
- Jed Marshall — The beautiful arrangement with the locked drawer
- Angela Burr — The operation's pregnant, unstoppable conscience
- Major Corkoran — Corky — the fixer being replaced, and noticing
- Sandy Langbourne — The lord who handles the paperwork of war
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