But before they could trot the globe, they had to get out of the office. At the end of season three, Kay and Down made the decision to effectively shut down Pierpoint, selling the British bank to Al-Mi’raj, an Egyptian sovereign wealth fund, which closes the London trading floor where much of Industry’s action took place. “Season three really felt like a kind of detonation of the show,” says Down. But burning bridges leaves plenty of room for growth—which was what the pair intended. “Our interests became more mature as we wrote the seasons,” Down continues. “It would feel dishonest to continually keep the show small as the characters’ perspectives began to grow, and as the characters accrued more power, and as the show became an interrogation of the world in which we live and was breaking away from the hermetically sealed box of the trading floor.” This meant taking characters to places they’d never been before—like Austria and Accra. Down had a personal reason for sending Industry into Africa. “My mother’s Ghanaian and I’ve …