Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson strides into Jeremy's orbit as a motivational speaker and businessman radiating unearned confidence, all slogans and self-belief. He takes a shine to Jeremy, dangling promises of wealth and purpose through his vague enterprise. Slick, effusive, endlessly persuasive, he sells a version of success that sounds too easy because it is.

Paterson Joseph plays the empty charisma of the corporate guru with total commitment, making Alan's patter genuinely seductive even as the show quietly undercuts every word of it. He works because he's a mirror for Jeremy's laziness dressed up as ambition, and Joseph never lets you see the con coming from the outside.