Andrew Scott’s Tom Ripley gets sucked into a world of deceit and murder after his secret identity gets revealed in the teaser of Netflix’s monochrome limited thriller series Ripley, dropped by the streamer on Monday.

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels, the one-minute-two-second-long teaser takes us through the world of Ripley who navigates a journey full of suspense with cops, criminals and industrialists in the 1960s. It begins with monochrome shots of an Italian church before moving on to show a man approaching Ripley (Scott) and telling him that he is a “hard man to find”. Having no address, phone or office, Ripley is a rogue conman, hired by an industrialist who sends him to Italy to convince his son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to return home.

The series also stars Dakota Fanning as Flynn’s girlfriend, who suspects Ripley to have an ulterior motive behind his smile.

Ripley is written and directed by Steven Zaillian, known for writing Schindler’s List (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and The Irishman (2019). The story, based on Highsmith’s 1955 novel of the same name, was previously adapted into a film titled The Talented Mr Ripley starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow in 1999.

Scott is well known for his role as Hot Priest in the second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Prime Video comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016-19) and as the antagonist Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock (2010). The actor recently starred alongside Paul Mescals in All Of Us Strangers, which won the British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film.

Ripley will arrive on Netflix on April 4.