Hidden Assets review: Bibi shows her hand in second-last episode
Simone Kirby as Bibi Melnick in Hidden Assets.
Bibi Melnick, it emerges in the penultimate episode of Hidden Assets, is quite a piece of work. Throughout the series, Simone Kirby's character has been hiding in plain sight from the authorities - and now, it emerges, she knows a lot more about the circumstances of her brother Fionn Brannigan’s (Peter Coonan) death and his connection to a terrorist attack which has shaken the city of Antwerp. As CAB investigator Emer Berry puts it: “Everywhere. This woman is everywhere.”
Despite the very best attempts at a poker face by actress Simone Kirby, Bibi has been on the radar of eagle-eyed viewers for some time. But the sheer extent of her connections to terrorism, organised crime and money-laundering are revealed to a shocking extent in episode five.
