NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) — Disclosure Day, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead alum Simon Pegg says Season 2 of The Undeclared War shows how being a dad and husband stabilizes his character Danny, a British government malware security agent.

Six new episodes of the thriller began streaming on Peacock this week.

They follow Danny and his team as they realize there is a mole in their among them.

“He’s in the midst of of what seems to be a global crisis, going from the end of Season 1 into Season 2. He’s right in the thick of it there, tired and frustrated and relieved with the outcome,” Pegg told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.

“His marriage is the one kind of steady thing in his life. So, for him, it’s everything that’s anchoring him to reality.”

“They’ve quite a steady relationship. They’re plodding along in their lives. They’ve got two kids,” added Sherlock and House of the Dragon actress Siân Brooke, who plays Danny’s wife, Barbara, who is an employee in another division of government.

“They’re doing their jobs as best they can,” she said. “As the series unravels, you see the impacts of the job that they have and the decisions that they make and how that impacts upon them personally. So, I think as the series progresses, the relationship feels the pressure.”

Despite the caution and secrecy that their jobs require, Danny and Barbara still trust each other, according to Pegg.

“The good thing is that they both work at Government Communications Headquarters, so they both understand. They both know what the mission is and their inability to tell each other what they’re working on. They accept it and they accept it with good humor,” he said.

“It’s just part of the job. It’s not like Barbara has to explain to Danny why she can’t tell him certain things. Danny knows that, and vice versa. There’s a great deal of trust otherwise. They also know it’s not because they don’t want to tell them. It’s like it’s the Official Secrets Act.”

Brooke and Pegg don’t think one can know too much about the dangers technology poses in real life.

“It’s not tangible. It’s just sort of in the ether and then delving into this world and understanding a bit more about it, I found it quite shocking and frightening and hugely educational,” Brooke said. “It is quite scary and sadly realistic.”

Pegg added: “There is a new front-line and it’s online and we’ve been fighting a war since the dawn of the Internet.

“Most people don’t realize that. Most people don’t know that the people they’re talking to online are probably bad actors who are paid by their governments to sew discord in our society. That sounds like something out of science-fiction, but it’s true,” he said.

The series co-stars Hannah Khalique-Brown, Alex Jennings, Danny Sapani, Ed Stoppard and Chloe Pirrie.