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Defending their country, deceiving their friends, no one is immune from the eyes and ears of MI-5.

Enter the thrilling world of MI-5 - known to insiders simply as 'five' - the clandestine security service, and meet the people who make up the elite team. They tackle organized crime, terrorist activities, embassy sieges, weapons proliferation and anarchists, not to mention the conflicts and power struggles back in the office.

In a world where the roles of the intelligence services and secret agents are being thrown into greater importance, MI-5 is a timely new drama from a first-class creative team and with a superb cast.

Includes every exciting Episode from Seasons 1-7

 

Series 1
Through the adventures of 'Section B' a crack team of spies in MI5's counter-terrorism department led by Matthew Macfadyen as Senior Case Officer Tom Quinn - Spooks unlocks the secret world of the 21st century Security Service. Under MI5's modern remit, its officers deal with anything from terrorist plots and immigration rings to arms smuggling and the drugs trade. Their job is to outwit the world's smartest criminal minds using their powers of perception and deception.

But the super-charged world of a spy comes with a price. In today's society, which defines a person primarily by their job, spies can never reveal what they actually do. As series producer Jane Featherstone says: "You can't tell new boyfriends or girlfriends what you do until they have been thoroughly vetted. None of the normal rules of identity apply."

Series 2
Through the adventures of 'Section B' a crack team of spies in MI5's counter-terrorism department led by Matthew Macfadyen as Senior Case Officer Tom Quinn - Spooks unlocks the secret world of the 21st century Security Service. Under MI5's modern remit, its officers deal with anything from terrorist plots and immigration rings to arms smuggling and the drugs trade. Their job is to outwit the world's smartest criminal minds using their powers of perception and deception.

But the super-charged world of a spy comes with a price. In today's society, which defines a person primarily by their job, spies can never reveal what they actually do. As series producer Jane Featherstone says: "You can't tell new boyfriends or girlfriends what you do until they have been thoroughly vetted. None of the normal rules of identity apply."

Series 3
It's all change in MI5. Tom has been branded a traitor and has disappeared, while Harry is in hospital, seriously wounded. And there's dissension in the ranks: Danny and Zoe are determined to clear Tom's name. Will Tom, missing since shooting Harry, re-emerge to prove himself an innocent victim of a set-up?

Discharged from hospital, Harry finds his stewardship of MI5 under threat from a shadowy government agency seeking to bring the service under the government's direct control. Is Harry strong enough yet for a power struggle?

And will former MI6 agent Adam Carter, the new addition to the team, provide the drive and enthusiasm so apparently missing? If his track record is anything to go by, there are going to be plenty of fireworks.

Series 4
Zoe's gone and Danny's dead. Harry, Adam and new recruit Zaf are attempting to keep morale high when London is hit by a series of terrorist attacks.

Juliet Shaw arrives on the scene, threatening to blackmail her old flame, Harry. Rather than be manipulated, Harry tenders his resignation.

And a Syrian diplomat indicates that he would like to begin secret talks with the UK. Fiona volunteers to go undercover, but she has enemies in Syria and Adam is concerned. Will Fiona - who has her own agenda - succeed in putting her demons to rest?

Series 5
Spooks returns with more fast-paced and hard-hitting storylines and now the battleground of national security provides a backdrop that is more relevant than ever for the team from MI5. Series 5 begins with Britain left reeling after a series of terrorist attacks. Our team believe the attacks cloak a conspiracy to destroy democracy and turn Britain into a 'police state'. Can the team protect the democratic way of life? Zafar goes undercover and infiltrates a home-grown Islamic terror group who are planning a massive attack against London. There could also be serious repercussions for Ruth when she finds out the deaths of seven terrorist suspects in a prison fire were in fact staged by British military intelligence.Series 6
The award-winning, edge-of-your-seat spy drama is back with another white-knuckle ride through the perilous world of deadly terrorists, international cover-ups and treacherous double-agents.

Series 6
Having survived the bombing of the Thames Barrier, Adam and Ros recover to find London facing an even greater threat. While attempting to thwart an attack that could jeopardize a historic peace accord between Britain and Iran, the team unwittingly unleash a deadly killer. But with a virus that mimics the pneumonic plague, there can be no negotiation. And when Zaf is kidnapped by armed mercenaries, the team realizes that in a game of the highest stakes they hold none of the cards. As the stuff of nightmares becomes increasingly real, London faces total devastation...
This exclusive five-disc set contains the complete, original British sixth season of the riveting spy drama. Bonus features include audio commentary, behind the scenes featurette, video diary and more!

Series 7
More highly topical stories as the award-winning intelligence drama returns for a seventh series. Smouldering heart-throb Richard Armitage joins the cast as MI5 officer Lucas North. Having spent the past eight years in a Russian prison, Lucas North is welcomed back by MI5 supremo and old friend Harry Pearce, who was instrumental in finally securing his release. Lucas is keen to get back to work straight away and, with Section D's current priority operation having a strong Russian connection, he could well prove invaluable. But, after eight years with only a high ranking Russian spymaster for company, can Lucas's loyalty really be taken for granted? Series Seven enters into classic espionage territory. In a world where no-one can be trusted and nothing is secure, the team cannot rely on gadgets or technology to keep them safe, but instead must live by their wits as they face their most ingenious and determined enemies yet.

 

 

Series 1
Episode 1 - A car bomb explodes in Liverpool and Zoe is sent undercover to investigate. Tom's life gets complicated when he falls in love with a woman he met while working undercover.

Episode 2 - The team uncovers connections between racist ring-leaders, politicians and mass killings of immigrants. The gang has sophisticated equipment to protect itself from electronic infiltration. Tom is forced undercover, and recent recruit Helen pretends to be his wife...

Episode 3 - Zoe finds herself in the Turkish embassy just as it is taken siege by Kurdish rebels. Meanwhile, Tessa proves herself to have some dark secrets in her past.

Episode 4 - Ellie starts to doubt whether she can cope with dating a spy. Tom's mentor is working undercover, but his methods start to appear dangerously unconventional. Meanwhile Zoe discovers Tessa is up to something.

Episode 5 - An ex-MP is released from prison, proposing to publish his memoirs. Plenty of people are interested, and when a double agent is murdered, the plot thickens.

Episode 6 - Tom is confronted by an Irish terrorist who seems to be trying to help MI5, but nothing is as simple as it seems. Ellie and Maisie move into Tom's house, just as he's tricked into bringing a bomb home in a laptop...

Series 2
Bosnian - A car bomb kills the wife and daughters of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, then a British army base is attacked. When the Irish terrorist group denies responsibility for the second blast and Bosnian war criminal, Miroslav Gradic, is spotted flying into the UK, the team realises this could be the start of a revenge campaign. Zoe is tasked to befriend a possible weak link at the Serbian Embassy - a cipher clerk - whom they suspect of sending coded messages to the war criminal. Two more hits take place on military targets in the UK, leading the Prime Minister to convene Cobra. Whilst debriefing the mole in the MOD, who's been providing information to the Serbs, they discover that it is in fact Cobra, which has been Gradic's target all along. The most powerful people in Britain will all be in the same building at the same time, and Gradic knows where they are...

Mosque - An M15 agent is identified and tortured inside a Birmingham mosque, where the MulIah is suspected of extremist activities. Before his health deteriorates, the agent tells Tom that boys are being trained to be suicide bombers. The team urgently needs to put someone else inside the mosque, but there is no one suitable. Enter Algerian spy lbhn Khaldun, who is in the UK and desperate for a British passport. After being rejected by Special Branch, M15 is keen to recruit his services - but can he be trusted? With no time to waste, lbhn is tasked to infiltrate the mosque and uncover the 'nest of angels'. lbhn doesn't show for several arranged meetings, then turns up to inform Tom that a suicide bombing is planned for the following day. The problem is that he will not know the location until the last moment. Helpless, Tom wants to pull lbhn out, but it is too late - lbhn is determined to see it through and save the boy from a pointless death.

Hacker - Someone is hacking into M15's central computer. Files are disappearing and agents are being lost in the field. The number one candidate is a secondary school teacher, Gordon Blaney (Chris Fairbank - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet), who is face-matched near an offending computer. M15's files link him to a violent socialist group, the SFM, and terrifying assaults and protests. The SFM is thought to have disbanded some time ago; has it regrouped? Posing as a supply teacher, Zoe is placed in the school in order to get near Blaney. Danny, meanwhile, tries to infiltrate the SFM. Zoe enjoys normal life in the community, getting to know the children etc, but she has doubts about Blaney's politics and whether he is the hacker. Meanwhile, the central computer is being hacked into more and more, and it's not clear whether two agents in Pakistan are alive or dead. Just as the team think they are near to breaking Blaney, it becomes clear they have been looking at the wrong man. Could it be someone who has been under their noses, but who really doesn't fit the mould? Also guest-starring William Gaminara (Silent Witness) and John Salthouse (The Bill).

Bank - When $2 billion is stolen from the last British family-owned bank in London, M15 is tasked by the Government to track down both the thief and the money. Harry is convinced there is something they are not being told and puts Danny in the bank, undercover. It becomes obvious that the bank has secrets, and that the Government is protecting it. When the CIA starts asking questions about aid money stolen from Russia, and the bank's 'thief' turns up dead - murdered in the Russian style - the team starts to make links. Danny learns from a fellow 'trader' that the bank is involved in money laundering and a Swiss bank is also mentioned. Zoe is shocked to discover that her relationship has to come under the microscope when her lover is implicated. Honey trap follows honey trap, as it becomes a race to retrieve the rest of the stolen aid money. The question is: what will the British Government do with the money if they get to it first? Guest stars include Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great And Small) and Rade Sherbedgia (24, The Quiet American).

Germ Warfare - The team is busy at work when an alarm goes off. It's an EERIE (Extreme Emergency Response Initiative Exercise), a practice run for a national emergency - in this case, germ warfare in Central London. All information received will be sent by an EERIE assessment team, which at this moment is somewhere else in the building. But as the exercise continues, information dries up, power and phone lines go down, victims try to break into Thames House - and suddenly Harry gets sick. With their boss in isolation, the team tries to stay calm and pass the test, but doubts start to set in about whether or not this is for real. And as they watch victims suffering and dying through their last remaining link with the outside world, can they protect the nation's security by proxy alone?

President - When the President of the United States makes an unscheduled trip to the UK, it's a huge and complex operation. MI5 must work with the CIA and the President's security team to ensure his safety throughout. At times it becomes a battle for power but as each new threat comes in, it has to be dealt with. Tom and Christine are thrown together and there is very obviously more to their relationship than just work - but there's the small matter of a President who is about to land in the UK. This surprise visit, combined with a routine psychological assessment of Tom and his team, means that everyone has a lot to deal with. As if this wasn't enough, intelligence comes in to say that the President may not be being entirely honest about his visit, although this could be the work of someone trying to drive a wedge between the UK and USA. There are plenty of threats flying around, but it's a tough call working out which ones should be believed.

Briefcase - The French Intelligence Service wants to work in partnership with M15 to catch an arms' expert, whom they suspect of trying to sell Eurofighter technology to the highest bidder. Harry, however, has 'higher' information that the arms' expert has actually developed the technology beyond that of the Eurofighter, and the British government wants M15 to acquire it for themselves. An operation of European unity turns into one of lies and mistrust. There is also the question of how they access the technology. Tom tracks down a thief who managed to break into Harry's house and steal highly classified files and equipment. Who better to use in this operation - a 14-year-old child, plucked from the streets: a clean skin, a completely deniable operation. All they need to do now is train him in the skills of the spy, and then trust him to complete the task they set him...

Unions - At an Army barracks, a platoon immaculately performs a practise exercise on their grounds, led by the highly regarded Major Curtis. One of the uniformed men moving in perfect synchronicity is Tom, working undercover. Britain has been through a winter of discontent with the country brought to almost a standstill by industrial action, and MI5 has been closely monitoring the situation. The fire fighters, nurses, teachers, air traffic controllers, council workers and rail unions have all clashed with the New Labour Government and the unions are dominating the political agenda. With the stability of the country already under threat, MI5 receives word of a potentially far more serious situation: the British Army is planning strike action - despite the possibility of impending war. MI5 knows that Major Curtis is at the heart of this latest move and Tom is in on the inside to uncover exactly what is being planned. His mission is to earn Curtis' trust and carefully feed him false information to defeat his plans. But what if Tom actually agrees with what Curtis is fighting for?

Drugs - A much-respected journalist and author is assassinated in his office. When M15 learns that he was investigating crimes against human rights in Colombia, the killing ties in with information received that a leading Colombian sicario (paramilitary) may be setting up in London. Rafa Morientes has a reputation for savagery and specialises in the murder of human rights activists and trade unionists. He has come to the UK in order to establish himself as the head of a terrorist network called the Seventh Division. MI5 discovers a connection between Rafa and the Director of Finance at Petrex, the UK's biggest oil corporation. Could Rafa be using Petrex to attempt a coup d'état within a British company? If he is successful, it would pass control into the hands of men who will use it as a clearing house for drugs and terrorism, and harness its enormous power to control politicians across Europe and the globe... Morientes has to be stopped.

Christine - Tom receives a tip-off from Christine Dale, who has accidentally got hold of information that a known American assassin has been sent to Britain by the Iraqis. Apparently the CIA is determined not to let MI5 know, but if there's a risk of a major British figure being assassinated she feels Tom ought to know - but he mustn't tell anyone else. Tom secretly talks Zoe and Danny into helping him. Zoe is suspicious and she does not like keeping secrets from Harry. They begin to suspect that Tom has gone bad. Nevertheless, they follow a trail of evidence to a deserted farm in Suffolk, where they are ambushed, chained up and drugged. When they wake up, Tom has gone, so they rush back to the office and tell Harry everything. Meanwhile, Tom has been tricked into putting his fingerprints on a gun. When he recovers consciousness, he rushes to the nearest house to phone the office, with a warning about a planned assassination and his fingerprints on the gun. It is too late. The assassination has already happened, and the team is convinced Tom is to blame. Desperate to prove his innocence, he persuades Harry, Tom and Zoe to meet with him. But the set-up is too good; there is no way he can convince any of them. Tom is cornered and, as Harry threatens to call in back-up, Tom takes the only way out. He shoots Harry and runs. When he reaches the beach he just keeps going, swimming out to sea and an uncertain future.

Series 3
Project Friendly Fire - Tom Quinn has been accused of assassinating the Chief of The Defence Staff, is guilty of shooting his superior Harry Pearce and has disappeared.
When Oliver Mace, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, hears of this he seizes his opportunity to take control of Britain's homeland intelligence service. With the Prime Minister's backing he launches an investigation into MI5, the aim being to uncover the rot at its core and take over.
Danny, Zoe and the rest of the team, under intense watch, manage to skip surveillance and meet to discuss what to do. They must inform Harry, who is appalled to learn of this "conspiracy, in the darker corners of Government" and their crass intention to "modernise the intelligence services".
When Harry's contacted by Tom Quinn he tells him that MI5's only hope of survival is to prove that Tom was innocent. A few hours later the body of a dead man - the man who Tom claimed set him up - turns up on the steps of Thames House. Is this proof enough that Tom was innocent? Mace doesn't think so.So the battle for control continues. Can Tom and the team prove he's innocent and save the service?

The Sleeper - Harry reawakens a sleeper: Fred Roberts, renowned chemical engineer, Nobel Prize winner and happy family man sold his soul to MI5 over twenty years ago in return for a helping hand on the career ladder.
Over the years this pact has become nothing more than a faded memory, but the time has come for Fred to repay his debt. Harry and the team are running Operation Flytrap - they want to spread the lie that Fred has made Red Mercury, a lethal trigger for a nuclear explosion, in order to attract terrorist groups.
But at what cost to this man's life?
When Tom begins to fear for Fred who is successfully being seduced by MI5 and the grand idea of helping protect the nation, he takes a moral stance that puts the whole operation in jeopardy. Can MI5 allow humanity to get in the way of its op?
Tom is decommissioned by Harry and forced to leave the service. The operation, led by Adam, successfully traps a dangerous terrorist group the Aleph Command.
Zoe meets Will, a freelance photographer. She falls for him and they fall into bed.

Who Guards the Guards? - Danny, on Close Quarter Protection, is shaken when his charge, the controversial writer Zulifakir living in Britain under a fatwa, is shot at.
Zulifakir survives but immediately sacks MI5, appalled at how they, especially Danny, could have allowed this to happen.
It's only on closer examination that Adam picks up on something crucial - the hitman missed his target, but almost hit the innocent Harakat. Would a hired gun man make this kind of mistake?
Following through his hunch Adam tasks Danny to put Close Quarter Protection on Zuli's friend Harakat. Disgruntled Danny does so and soon Danny and Harakat develop a deep friendship.
Meanwhile Zoe and the rest of the team track down the hit man to a house in East London. They watch and wait, but nothing. He doesn't move an inch.
When Harry receives a photo which shows Oliver Mace talking to the head of a Pakistani terror group a couple of years ago, MI5 are worried. Why were they meeting? And what were they talking about? Could this tell the team who the hitman was really aiming at?

A Prayer for my Daughter - The latest round of Middle East peace talks are abruptly halted when Patricia Norton, a key delegate disappears. MI5 is worried - one of the last things Patricia said to Adam was that he should investigate David Swift, the newspaper mogul and renowned Israeli extremist, and a group he's associated with called the November Committee. What did Patricia know?
Danny and Zoe are undercover in the Palestinian Freedom Campaign investigating the flamboyant, left wing MP and chairman of the Campaign, Nicholas Ashworth.
Despite heavy surveillance, they have found nothing incriminating, but they come across a young, feisty campaigner - Harry's estranged daughter Catherine.
The team continue to investigate Swift and the November Committee and soon discover that they're not the only ones undercover in the Campaign. It seems the November Committee has an agent working there too.
Not only that, they also discover a list of prominent figures involved in Middle East politics that the November Committee would like to have removed. Catherine is suspected to be the agent and Danny is tasked to stay close to her and find out the truth.
Meanwhile Will proposes to Zoe, and she says yes.

Love and Death - Zoe and Danny are tasked to ‘play scarecrow' - follow rogue scientist Dr Newland onto a North Sea ferry headed for Norway and warn him off meeting a contact who they believe will fund Newland's research into pneumonic plague. MI5 has learnt that Newland is perfecting a process which will enable him to mass produce and deliver the plague to a large population, and that he is on a verge of striking a deal with the North Koreans. This means biochemical warfare. Tensions are rising between Zoe and Danny thanks to Will, but they are fully across the task in hand. It's not until they are halfway across the North Sea that MI5 gets wind of a fact that changes everything. Newland isn't planning to do a deal to fund his research, the deal has already been done - he's planning to sell the stuff. This changes things radically and Danny and Zoe find themselves being instructed to assassinate this man. With Zoe sick, the task is left to Danny... but even coached by Adam, can he do it?

Persephone - What seems like a routine operation against Turkish mafia gun-running turns into something far darker when three of the mafia terrorists are shot by another gang member. One of the men killed was an undercover police officer. Zoe, the MI5 officer infiltrating the Turkish gang, finds herself on trial for conspiracy to murder. But did she order the killing? And even if she did, shouldn't her actions be defendable given the amorality of these terrorists? The jury must decide. Despite a deal struck between Harry and the Government, Zoe is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Outraged that she should be made a scapegoat, MI5 arranges for a stooge to take her place in prison and for Zoe to take up a new life and identity in Chile. Although it means losing his best friend, Danny has to persuade her to go. Zoe apologises to Will, explains she is in some trouble but promises to be in touch. Then she disappears.

Outsiders - MI5 is alarmed when the death of a young primary school teacher brings the number of paracetamol-related fatalities to 9, with 11 more victims in a serious condition listed across Britain. It transpires different brands of pills have been laced with menazorphine, which would alter its effect to like drinking acid. Someone on the outside has hacked into the manufacturer's computer systems and deliberately caused this lethal cocktail to occur. Ruth, with the help of Andrew (an old colleague and analyst from the National High Tech Crime Unit), investigate the possibility that Islamic terrorists are behind the threat. Together they try to trace the hackers behind the chaos that is now spreading across the country. Bank balances are being wiped, traffic lights are out of synch, everywhere there is mayhem and tragedy. Devastated and bitter at losing Zoe, Danny is obstructive on the operation and nasty to Ruth - until she goes missing, just as she was about to uncover the hacker's identity. Working closely with he team, he deduces that the hacker is Andrew (an insider) and that he's holding Ruth. His demand? The valuable G&J key, a tool which controls the world's computers. Adam negotiates a ransom deal and Danny races to Ruth's rescue. Now Danny tells Will where Zoe is, and the lovers are reunited.

Celebrity - When celebrity couple Riff and B's baby is kidnapped, supermodel B demands MI5 handle the investigation. Harry is appalled but can't argue with Oliver Mace who tells him the Government is backing B's request. Riff, a fading rock star, has just been knighted and the Government can't risk a drop in public morale should anything happen to the über-couple's adored little Alfie. Harry hands this one straight to Adam. Mace seconds extra resources from Six to help out and Adam's wife, Fiona, is sent in undercover to befriend B. She learns that B, fearful of losing her fame which has recently been on the wane, has set the whole kidnap up as a publicity stunt. What wasn't part of her elaborate plan was that Alfie should actually die. The horrible truth begins to unravel and, ironically, the truth is even more newsworthy. Meanwhile Harry, with Ruth's help, uncovers a story of accidental death involving a politician and his young woman. Harry wants to force the MP to resign, but Mace intervenes - the resignation can be delayed until they can bury it beneath another, more headline-grabbing story. And Mace has one on the boil right now... A distraught Riff gets a call; his drug dealer Rudolfino Ponti wants to a meeting. When B finds out, she panics - Ponti is bound to tell Riff she paid him to kidnap Alfie. she rushes to the rendezvous, but it's too late - Riff has killed Ponti. He then kills B before shooting himself. The story is reported as the tragic suicide pact of grief-stricken stars, while Sylvester resigns quietly to spend more time with his family.

Frequently Asked Questions - MI5's suspicions are aroused when a known mercenary, Robert Morgan, who has recently been linked to a new player on the arms smuggling circuit, is seen visiting a top secret, old Soviet arms dump. Thanks to police ineptitude, Morgan discovers he's being watched at the hide and MI5 take this chance to bring him in and question him. It's only when MI5 discover exactly what's missing from the hide -- a laser target designator -- and discover that only a week ago E Section picked up some unusual radio activity and reported an untraceable flash over London, that they are able to piece together the jigsaw and understand the stakes. The untraceable flash could only be Morgan's laser target designator having itself a trial run -- an attack on London is imminent. Adam and Danny begin the interrogation of Morgan, the objective being to find out who he's working for and what exactly they plan to do to our capital. They work their way through the three F's - finance, friends and family - but how far will they go to ‘coax' the truth out of Morgan? Adam, driven by his own experiences, seems to want to stop at nothing. When the team uncover a link between Morgan and one of the UK's biggest oil companies they are even more perplexed. The oil company is involved in a controversial bidding war over the contract for a major new pipeline, but would they resort to these tactics to ensure a victory? Fiona is tasked to recruit an asset inside the oil company, but, under immense time pressure, she is soon asking the same question of herself that Adam is asking: how far will she go to ensure the recruitment of this asset?
The team discovers Morgan's Achilles heel - his sick daughter. Adam has no choice but to use her to get Morgan to capitulate. He's prevented an attack on central London, but put a child at risk in the process. How do you reconcile yourself to that?

The Suffering of Strangers - At home Fiona and Adam prepare breakfast, there's a relaxed air to their banter but unbeknownst to them they are being listened to - and not by their own Security Services, but by a man with a desire to take his revenge for the atrocities that have occurred in his home country, Iraq.
Following up one of the numerous leads flooding into an overworked MI5, Danny and Fiona race round to a house they suspect is being used by North African terrorists for meets. They have precisely 2 hours and 12 minutes to get there, install a listening device and get out. It all seems to be going smoothly, until, out of nowhere, a gang of terrorists led by Ahmed emerge and take both Danny and Fiona hostage. He forces Fiona to record a video statement stating his demands - that the Prime Minster change a much anticipated speech regarding the UK's presence in Iraq and commit to an immediate withdrawal of troops and insists she call Adam, luring him into a trap. Adam speaks to Fiona who manages to conceal her distress and agrees to meet her on the south bank. Only when he gets there he is met by a stranger, not his wife. All Adam has to do is stay with the stranger, an Iraqi woman called Khatera, and do everything she says. Otherwise his wife and colleague will die. The grid remain unawares until Adam manages to send a coded message alarming Ruth to the problem. Soon, they are on the trail of all 3 missing officers. But it's not soon enough and Danny and Fiona, desperate to do something, attempt an escape which has fatal results. Ahmed, angered by their disobedience, he decides to execute one. But to let Adam choose which one will die. But Danny speaks out giving Ahmed no choice but to kill him and allowing Adam to live without knowing he had ordered the death of either of them. Shocked. Desperate. Horrified. The team have to find Fiona and stop her from being killed too... but can they hold it together? Can they save her?
Adam works his relationship with Khatera until she reveals where Fiona is being held. But Khatera also reveals the gruesome truth that she is carrying an explosive device inside her body which is controlled by Ahmed and that Adam's last task is to get her into where the Prime Minister is making his public address where she can instruct Ahemd to explode the device and kill him. By showing his love for Fiona Adam manages to win Khatera round, save the PM, the innocent people in the room, his own wife, everyone... except Danny.

Series 4
The Special - Part One - The team is at Danny's funeral when a bomb explodes amidst a London street market - high death count. The terrorists are Shining Dawn, an international group whose members believe they have a divine mission to wipe out human beings in order to save the earth. Shining Dawn's only demand is the release of their leader, till then bombs, designed to target maximum casualties will detonate every ten hours in central London. The Grid is turned in to a command centre, the CIA led by Boyd assist and an old flame of Harry's, Juliet Shaw, arrives to help. Ruth is sent to interrogate a Professor from whom Shining Dawn take their inspiration, but they are forced to flee when an assassin tracks them down. A waitress becomes caught up in the MI5 operation when she unwittingly becomes the only person able to id the bomb maker. The team are making good progress until a second key witness dies before the team can interrogate them. Adam realises there's a mole on the Grid but with Zaf kidnapped and the next bomb still ticking down, they don't have time to find out who it is.

The Special - Part Two - On the Grid, a power struggle between Harry and Juliet emerges with Juliet blackmailing Harry in to supporting her bid for the Security & Intelligence Coordinator's job. Harry refuses to be manipulated and offers his resignation. Adam manages to free Zaf and forces the kidnappers to reveal where the next bomb is - it's under a high-rise block of flats. They defuse it but realise their policy must change; they have to root out the mole to find the bomb maker. Harry and Adam arrest their main suspect - Juliet. As they subject her to an interrogation the Professor spots a Shining Dawn member in Thames House. The mole is the CIA man, Boyd. Boyd flees, using the waitress as a foil but is captured. The CIA offer Boyd a deal: reveal the bomb maker and you can resign. Boyd agrees and MI5 arrest the bomb maker, moments later the CIA assassinate Boyd. However, one final bomb is still ticking beneath a hospital and this time, the waitress is rigged to it. Move her and the bomb explodes. Adam stays by her side as they clear the hospital and the bomb ticks relentlessly downwards.

Divided They Fall - As a result of recent terror attacks, the British public have become fearful and increasingly conservative. Attacks and riots against asylum seekers are common and when a conservative MP crosses the floor to join a far right party, The British Way, MI5 realise democracy is being threatened. Adam goes undercover in the British Way, tasked to turn a politically correct racist back to his aggressive roots whilst Fiona, posing as a lobbyist, undermines the MP in Westminster and Zaf embarks on a dirty tricks campaign. The pincer operation works perfectly but perhaps too effectively. The racist returns to his roots, entraps ROAD TRIP - MI5 is alerted to information that a high profile terrorist belonging to a new Islamic splinter group, plan to enter the UK via an illegal immigrants truck. MI5 send Adam and Zaf to Istanbul where they infiltrate the truck and on the journey attempt to turn the terrorists away from his militant ideals. They succeed, but Adam and Zaf are not wholly convinced by the transformation. Back in the UK the team must decide whether to trust the terrorist and risk serious consequences. Too late they realise the terrorist true game and it yields disastrous consequences.

The Book - Harry mourns the suicide of a retired MI5 officer until a journalist informs Harry the officer was murdered because he'd been about to sell his autobiography and expose a life time of service secrets. The journalist is taken under MI5's protection as the team investigate. The trail leads them back to Whitehall and Juliet where Harry is informed of the real politick; either one elderly officer died or the whole service was brought down. Harry can do nothing but protect his team from further assaults from this rogue Whitehall cabal. He threatens to publish the officer's memories should anything like this happen again.

The Innocent - A terror attack is planned on the UK transport system, orchestrated by an Algerian terrorist, Malek, whilst locked in a high security prison cell. The team choose the unorthodox and risky strategy of freeing Malek so that he will lead them to the cell before the attack occurs. As they mount surveillance on Malek and his civil liberties lawyer, they discover that Malek is not the terrorist they thought he was but simply an innocent man and his arrest the result of a Special Branch admin error. However since Malek's release he has been meeting known terrorists - has Malek been turned whist in prison? Adam interrogates Malek and discovers Malek's family are being held hostage until Malek commits the required act of terror. The team fight to save Malek's innocence but risk his family's lives in the process.

Syria - A Syrian diplomat indicates he would like to begin secret talks with the UK. Fiona volunteers to go undercover and liase with the diplomat but Adam's concerned: Years ago Fiona was locked in to a disastrous marriage with a Syrian secret service officer, Farook, whom Adam saved her from by framing Farook, resulting in his execution. Ever since Fiona has lived under an alias to avoid detection by the Syrians. Checks are made and since no one from her past is present Fiona is allowed to make contact. As the team prepare to work covertly with the diplomat it becomes clear that Fiona has another agenda, one she is arming herself for: Fiona has discovered that her first husband is still alive and looking for her. Fiona wants to provoke a confrontation so that she can kill her ex-husband and finally escape her past. However she fails and is kidnapped by Farook. Adam must save Fiona before she is flown out of the country. They nearly make their escape when Fiona is shot. She dies in Adam's arms.

The Russian - Adam is in denial, unable to grieve for Fiona. Hugo Ross, an old cold-war traitor, is approached by MI5. The son of the now dead Soviet spy who recruited Hugo is in Britain. The son is as passionate about capitalism as the father was about communism and the UK Government is toying with allowing the son to save the NHS by buying it. MI5 are unconvinced by the son and independently set out to discover the son's true motives. Adam insists on working on the operation but it quickly becomes apparent that he's unable to cope. Harry sends him to the secret service psychiatric hospital. The team discover the son's ultimate aim is to buy the NHS and strip it of its assets; Britain will lose its NHS. Appalled by the son's free market values, Hugo helps MI5 destroy the son's reputation, ensuring the government is no longer able to ignore the son's unethical business dealings. Adam spars with his psychologist before walking out, re-joining the operation and leading it to success. Only then is he able to begin to grieve.

The Sting - The world is on the brink of war with Iran and, despite the Government's reluctance to go to war again in this climate of playing lap-dog to America, the UK may be forced to do so. Harry is determined to remind everyone that MI5 is not a CIA outstation, so when the team catches the CIA illegally extraditing another British/Iranian citizen (Khurvin) based on a flimsy terrorism charge, Harry makes a stand and forces the CIA to release him. Khurvin subsequently murders his MI5 surveillance team and Harry is suspended. Juliet takes control of the Grid and tasks the team to recapture Khurvin before he commits an act of terror and forces the country into war with Iran. As the team follows up clues, Harry, unable to face life outside the service, starts his own investigation into the case. Secretly liaising with Adam, both investigations lead them to Pollard, an American mercenary working on behalf of big businesses in the USA, businesses who will profit from another war. The team captures Khurvin and Pollard. Harry is reinstated.

Diana - On the eve of her stepbrother Peter's suicide, Ruth is visited by his partner Angela, an ex-MI5 officer famous for her operational accomplishments. Angela asks Ruth for help in procuring evidence that proves MI5, and more specifically Harry, assassinated Lady Diana - the news of which ultimately brought about Peter's suicide. Ruth dismisses the idea, but the following day Angela walks onto the Grid carrying a bomb big enough to explode the whole of Thames House. Angela forces the team to find evidence that MI5 killed Diana. The team searches through the night, building a story based on facts and conspiracy theories. It begins to look as though there might be truth to the claim, until Harry disproves it. Ruth finally gets through to Angela by constructing a ‘truth' about her relationship with Peter. The team agrees to award Angela ‘victim in the field' status and allow her to walk free, but as she disappears Ruth notices the Buckingham Palace security plans have gone missing. Forces are mobilised and the Royal Family evacuated to a bunker when Adam realises they are playing into Angela's hands yet again - the bomb is in the bunker. They manage to dispose of the bomb and the Royal family is safe. Thwarted and furious, Angela seeks to take her revenge on Harry and Adam in a terrifying way.

Series 5
Episode 1 - A team of conspirators have been deliberately de-stabilizing Britain. Can the team preserve the status quo?

Episode 2 - The conspirators gain an advantage and MI5 are pushed to the limit. Meanwhile, Harry gets caught up in the action. Will his team help him out in time?

Episode 3 - Zaf and Adam go undercover in an attempt to stop a terrorist bomb attack.

Episode 4 - An assasination threat and an arms deal endanger the World Trade Organisation conference being held in the UK.

Episode 5 - Ruth sees a man kill himself, setting off a chain of events that threaten her future.

Episode 6 - The Government is brokering a secret deal with the Saudis. When the Saudi Embassy is stormed, Ros is caught up in the siege.

Episode 7 - The siege continues. The hostage-takers issue demands to the Saudi King - release Al-Qaeda prisoners or one hostage will be killed every hour.

Episode 8 - A Christian extremist group plan to take retribution on a Muslim community.

Episode 9 - Adam comes face-to-face with a spy who betrayed him in his MI6 days. Should he trust the man who sold him out?

Episode 10 - An environmental terrorist group threaten to flood London if the Government doesn't publish a secret document.

Series 6
Episode 1 - The Grid is faced with the threat of a terrorist attack by a member of Iranian intelligence which could jeopardise an historic peace deal with Iran.
The team is sent undercover in Iran when they receive intelligence that suspected terrorist Mehan Asnik is plotting a bomb attack on London. Their aim is to blow up Asnik in Tehran, making it look like a terrorist attack, but just as the team are about to detonate the charge, a train packed with civilians pulls up yards from the target. With the operation at a critical stage, the team must make a split-second decision that could cost many innocent lives.

Episode 2 - With Britain on the verge of a plague epidemic, the team must track down and quarantine anyone infected. Meanwhile, Harry orders the interrogation of spies from all nations likely to have a vaccine.
With Britain facing a deadly plague, Harry rounds up key spies from nations likely to be involved in the plot, and begins an interrogation that he hopes will lead him to the vaccine. But these are some of the world's most hardened characters and they are going to need a lot of persuading. Ruthless agent Connie James is charged with obtaining the information, and what better weapon to use against her captives than the threat of infecting them with the virus itself?

Episode 3 - A plane crashes near an American airbase. Was it shot down on purpose and, if so, was Iran involved? With the team unaware of her kidnap, Ros is subjected to mental torture.
Zaf is still missing and his colleagues assume the worst, but a plane crash near an American air base shifts attention to the possibility of an Iranian offensive. Malcolm is sent to shoot secret footage of the Americans as they hastily clear the site and remove the wreckage to their base. Meanwhile, Ros refuses to yield as her kidnappers subject her to sustained mental torture.

Episode 4 - When intelligence is received that an Algerian extremist is planning a terrorist attack on London, Adam urges Ana, his contact in the Iranian Embassy, to spy on her husband.
Despite Ros's reservations, Adam is still working Ana, his source at the Iranian embassy. With rumours that Algerian terrorist Abdul Kharami is planning an attack on London, Adam pressures Ana to spy on her husband, the Iranian special consul Dariush Bakhshi, who is suspected of having links to Kharami. Meanwhile, Jo is sent to find out who or what Kharami's target could be.

Episode 5 - Attempting to stop an Iranian nuclear deal on British soil, Adam is framed for the killing of a mugger, who turns out to be a journalist investigating the Tehran train bomb.
On his way to the airport to intercept a Russian arms dealer selling vital nuclear blueprints to Iran, Adam is mugged and fatally strikes back. The ‘mugger' turns out to be a journalist investigating the Tehran train bomb. In return for information locating the Russian dealer, Ros yields to Yalta's demands to bug the Grid. Ana drugs Adam and attempts to drown him in the bath.

Episode 6 - Boarding a flight to Tehran, can Adam and Ros find and stop the passenger carrying nuclear triggers to Iran?
A circuit board capable of triggering Iran's nuclear warheads is being smuggled out of the country on a flight bound for Iran. Going undercover as a steward and a passenger, Ros and Adam make swift, discreet searches of luggage belonging to those most likely to be the courier. Back at headquarters, Harry realises the office must be bugged and authorises a sweep of the Grid.

Episode 7 - The announcement of a new peace accord between Britain, America and Iran is disrupted when armed infiltrators hijack the television broadcast.
A tentative pact between Iran, the USA and the UK has been agreed that could pull the trio back from the brink of conflict. A live television broadcast is arranged to announce the new peace and Ros exerts pressure on Iranian Special Consul Bakhshi to appear, using his wife Ana as leverage. But just as the programme begins, gunmen burst into the studio and demand that transmission be stopped.

Episode 8 - When Ros's involvement with Yalta is uncovered, Harry comes face to face with the chief of the shadowy anti-American organization.
Ros has been found out by Bob Hogan and has no choice but to tell Harry about her association with Yalta. In a bid to redeem herself she offers to get information on Yalta's latest operation against America. This involves getting inside Yalta's HQ and taking Adam with her, but Yalta already suspects Ros's cover has been blown and, taking her hostage, demands she reveals Harry's whereabouts.

Episode 9 - The team race against time to find and deactivate a bomb planted in central London by an ex-IRA operative, and discover who is really behind the plot to kill them.
Having been humbled by Yalta's attack on their satellite network, the USA is planning air-strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Meanwhile, the team is suspended from the Grid following the Ros Myers affair, and, when utterly impotent and isolated, an old adversary of Harry's appears out of the woodwork to inform them of a bomb he has planted in central London. Either innocent civilians or the team itself will perish. But who is really behind the threat?

Episode 10 - The team learns the fate of Zaf, and Adam's focus on preventing an al-Qaeda attack on a London school is diverted when Jo is kidnapped by a group of mercenaries.
The Venezuelan President is being targeted by a CIA hitman, Annibal Rodriguez, and the Venezuelan secret police are offering intelligence on a planned al-Qaeda attack on a British school if MI5 intervene. Meanwhile, Jo is kidnapped by a group called the Red-backs who torture and kill spies. Adam asks Bob Hogan to help with her rescue but when Adam is also taken prisoner, he makes a shocking discovery about the CIA man.

Series 7
Episode 1: The Last Post
In a world where Russia is rapidly emerging as a new superpower and where Islamist terrorism is still a real threat, our team find itself operating in the most testing, unsettled and frightening of times - the beginning of a new ColdWar.
Having survived her terrifying ordeal, Jo is at home recuperating. However, despite Adam's pastoral support, she is psychologically fragile and not yet ready to return to work.
Two days before Remembrance Sunday, British soldier Private Andy Sullivan is kidnapped off the streets of London by a team of Al Qaeda terrorists. Al Qaeda posts a video message on the internet announcing that he will be killed unless Remembrance Sunday services are cancelled.
Meanwhile, after suffering eight years in a Russian gaol, Lucas North (who used to work for Harry) is returned to MI5 on a secret spy swap. Harry and Arkady Kachimov, his opposite number in the Russian Intelligence Service, execute the swap.
Ros has also spent time in Russia, working undercover. She is summoned home by Harry when he suspects her cover has been blown, but she has come this far so risks her life to meet an asset. She discovers him dead and has to fight off an assassin before she is able to get vital intelligence and flee home to London.
Adam and Lucas join forces to rescue Andy Sullivan. On doing so, they learn from Ros's Russian intelligence, that al Qaeda is planning to detonate a bomb during a service of Remembrance and that the bomber is supported by the Chechens with links to Russia. Harry realises that his Nemesis, FSB chief Arkady Kachimov, must be behind the attack.
The families of servicemen are already gathered as Adam and Lucas arrive on the scene. Adam finds the bomb in a car, but will he manage to prevent it from going off and killing hundreds as well as himself?

Episode 2: Revenge Is Best Served Cold
As the team reels from Adam's death, Harry vows to take revenge on the man he believes to be responsible - FSB chief, Arkady Kachimov. Harry seeks the support of the British Government, explaining that he believes the Russians are engaged in a campaign to destroy Britain. The Government refuses to acknowledge his plea and insists it will not sanction his desire for revenge. Harry must find concrete proof that the Russians are behind it all.
Harry asks the team, now headed by Ros, to investigate Russian oil tycoon Alexander Beletsky. He knows Beletsky has connections high up within the Russian Intelligence Service, so the team is ordered to blackmail him for information and find out what he thinks the Russians are planning. But the only thing Beletsky knows is that he has been advised to shut down his company's servers at a specific time, so the team sets out to find out why. Meanwhile, Malcolm notices a strange sonar anomaly which piques his interest.
Lucas North is desperate to be back on the Grid and working. Although Harry is glad to have Lucas home safe, he orders him to stay away at this sensitive time. This is partly because Lucas needs to rest, but mainly because Harry is concerned about the relationship he forged with Kachimov during his years of incarceration. Unbeknownst to Harry, his instincts are correct. It seems Lucas is working for the Russians when he meets with his Russian handler, who is revealed to be his ex-wife, Elizabeta. However, Lucas uses his double agent status to start his own line of investigation. More determined than ever, Lucas uses Elizabeta to find out what Kachimov is up to.
Harry soon learns he was right; the Russians are planning something huge. The team discover a Russian stealth submarine in British waters which is planning to attack Britain's communications. If the attack is a success, it will render the country helpless, bringing it to its knees by causing financial and social chaos. But the team need the sub's comms code to prevent the attack and there is only one man who can get it - Lucas North. Lucas shows his true brilliance and skill by playing Kachimov at his own game and ‘turning' him in order to gain access to the code. Lucas manages to retain his false status as a Russian double agent, in order to help MI5 in the future.
The game is over for Kachimov as Lucas hands him over to Harry, demonstrating himself as an extraordinary officer and proving that his loyalties always lay with MI5. Harry gets his revenge.

Episode 3: Secrets and Lies
The team has been alerted to a barrage of possible British al Qaeda attacks, but it is proving hard to stay on top of them all. With murmurings that al Qaeda is active again and with the Home Secretary refusing to raise the national threat level, the team is under even more pressure to ensure a terrorist attack is prevented.
After a tip-off from an old asset of Adam's, Ben is sent undercover to find out everything he can about a particularly active cell. It's an extremely dangerous operation and his cover is nearly blown, but he manages to convince the cell leader that he is legitimate and is entrusted further into the operation.
Meanwhile, a small event triggers a memory which Lucas has buried from a time when he was tortured in prison in Russian. He remembers his torturers asking him about ‘Sugarhorse', a name that meant nothing to him. Lucas goes to Harry, who denies all knowledge of it. But Harry is lying and quickly seeks out the only man he can trust for advice, his old MI5 mentor and spy catcher, Bernard Qualtrough. It transpires that Sugarhorse is the most top-secret operation MI5 ever had and the Russians have caught wind of its existence: there must be a top-level mole working within MI5. Harry knows that this could lead to the downfall of MI5 and starts to investigate. But as Harry leaves, Bernard Qualtrough makes a call to the Russians. Qualthrough is a traitor.
With Harry off the Grid, Ros holds the fort. Now deep undercover with the al Qaeda cell, Ben learns that it is planning a bombing campaign in London. He is unable to discover the targets and hopes to learn the full story when he and the terrorists go on a dry run. But as they carry out the dry run, Ben makes a horrifying discovery: this isn't a practice, this is the real thing.
Ros and the team face a desperate race against time to stop the four terrorists' bombs going off. They are successful on all but one. But the world will never learn of the three bombs the team prevented from detonating; in the public's mind, MI5 failed.

Episode 4: Supping With The Devil
In the aftermath of al Qaeda's one successful bomb attack, the team learns that al Qaeda's number three, Muhammed Khordad, is in London and wants to negotiate. It's a risk, but they have to take this chance for peace.
Khordad sends Harry a message with details for a private meeting. Alone and stripped bare of back-up and comms [communications equipment], Harry and Ros are led into the lion's den. Khordad has intelligence of a terrorist attack, planned by an extremist faction of al Qaeda, targeting London at 3pm that afternoon. He is prepared to exchange information on the location of the bomb for a public pardoning of two al Qaeda prisoners, recently released from Guantanamo Bay. It's a test of trust on both sides - if it goes well, they can move onto wider issues.
Harry meets with the Home Secretary and explains Khordad's proposition. He tries to persuade him that negotiating with terrorists is the right thing for Britain's policy. When the Home Secretary resists, Harry points out that Britain once negotiated with the IRA and convinces him that, if they pull this off, it really could be the first step towards peace with al Qaeda.
Ben and Jo have been tailing Khordad. The clock is ticking as 3pm draws near and the team is still searching for the bomb. Tensions rise as the team waits to learn whether or not the Home Secretary will deliver his statement. Eventually it comes through, but the broadcast isn't exactly to Khordad's liking, so he breaks off contact with Harry. With time running out, the team has to bring him in and make him talk. But just as they are about to take him down, Khordad vanishes.
Harry discovers that Khordad has been taken by the CIA and negotiates with them to get him back. At the eleventh hour, Khordad provides Harry with the location of the bomb. Unexpectedly, the Russians have also learnt about the bomb and, in a test of Lucas' loyalty, they order him to make sure the bomb goes off. The team has a tough decision to make: either they defuse the bomb, blowing Lucas's cover and leaving themselves vulnerable to Russia, or they let the bomb go off and maintain Lucas's double-agent status.
In the midst of the drama, Harry receives a call from his old mentor, Bernard Qualtrough, who informs him that he believes Connie is the mole within MI5 and that she is responsible for passing on top-secret information about operation Sugarhorse to the Russians. What is Harry's next move?
And then the bomb goes off...

Episode 5: Wicked Game
The British economy is on the brink of collapse; if one more bank goes down, the country's entire financial system will implode. Rumours about the identity of the next troubled bank are circulating through the City, creating panic. It is believed the man behind the rumours is Alexis Meynell, who is famous for exploiting vulnerable economies all over the world. The team believes that Meynell is about to take the biggest gamble of his life - a gamble that, if he wins, would destroy the British economy. The team needs to get into the heart of the City to find out exactly what Meynell is up to and how they can stop him.
Ros is sent undercover, working as an employee at Meynell's firm. Her mission is to find proof that he is responsible for spreading the rumours so the Government can legitimately freeze his assets and take him down. Meynell is impressed by Ros from the moment she arrives, but is careful to keep his cards close to his chest.
After the shocking revelation that Connie could be the Sugarhorse mole, Harry has her put under house arrest and has her home searched for anything that might prove her treachery.
Meynell's stringent security makes communicating with Ros difficult. Lucas has to turn up at the office playing the role of her fiancé. Unbeknownst to Lucas, Asa (Meynell's right-hand man) sees him on the office CCTV and recognises him. Meynell, intrigued by Ros, invites her and Lucas to his fundraiser that evening. With the office supposedly empty, the team uses this opportunity to get Ben into Meynell's office to search for intelligence. Meanwhile, Asa has also slipped back to do some research on Lucas, as he is convinced he recognises him from his days in Russia.
When the function is over, Meynell and Ros make their way back to his hotel for a nightcap. He confides in her, revealing that over the past 20 years he has been living a lie. He is secretly a fervent Communist, always has been, and his aim is to use his position of power to bankrupt countries and bring down the capitalist system so that a more just system can replace it. The more time they spend together, the more Ros realises Meynell's agenda isn't material. He has a moral agenda.
Meynell then receives a call revealing that Ros is MI5. Meynell lashes out at her but Ros convinces him she believes in his ideology and wants to help him bring down the system. Challenged to prove she is trustworthy, she sleeps with him.
Having gained Meynell's trust, Ros is forced to place herself once more in huge personal danger by playing the biggest poker game of her life. The whole team (Connie has now been cleared and is back on the Grid) works with Ros as a nerve-racking dénouement ensues. She persuades the Treasury to put up a massive financial stake to bet against Meynell on the markets. But while Meynell might trust her, Asa doesn't. Suddenly it's not just the economy, but Ros's life that is at risk.

Episode 6: The Witness
An emergency Middle Eastern peace summit is being held in London, after a recent Israeli attack on Gaza. The team is responsible for the security of the event. Amidst the preparations, an internet filter on Malcolm's computer reveals that a key part of an assassin's toolkit is being sold on-line. Ros is concerned, especially with all the VIPs in town for the summit. The team needs to get it back immediately.
Harry sits in private torment, pondering the prospect that his friend, Bernard Qualtrough, is a traitor. Unexpectedly, he receives a message from Asset K, a Russian sleeper agent he recruited 20 years ago, saying she needs to make contact urgently. Harry believes that she might have proof that Qualtrough is the mole, so with Connie's name cleared, Harry entrusts her to make the meet whilst he acts as a decoy.
With Harry indisposed, Ros orders Lucas to collect the piece of kit. Lucas discovers the vendor is a teenager, Dean Mitchell, who lives with his mother. Whilst at the family's house, something catches Lucas's eye. He looks out of the window, only to see a snatch squad waiting outside. Someone else is after this bit of kit, and they are armed.
Lucas and the family make a run for it. Meanwhile, back on the Grid, the comms have been compromised. It soon dawns on the team that this is an inside job. It has to be MI6 who is after the boy.
Lucas and the Mitchells are on the run. Lucas is suspicious of Dean. Whom is he working for? Where did he get this highly dangerous piece of kit? Lucas starts to interrogate Dean and it soon transpires he is innocent. However, Dean confesses to witnessing a motorbike crash and it becomes clear why MI6 is after him. Dean must have stumbled upon MI6's black-op.
Lucas and the team follow the intelligence trail and realise that a secret MI6 unit is planning to assassinate the United Nations Chief Negotiator, who is in London for the peace summit. The team rescues the UN negotiator at the very last moment. Because of what Dean knows, the team creates a new identity for him and his mother. They are about to leave the country, but at St Pancras station Dean is shot dead. MI6 has succeeded in ‘mopping up' its black op.
Late at night at home, Harry sits with the file Connie collected from Asset K, the file that will reveal who the mole is within MI5. He opens it, to find the evidence marks him, Harry Pearce, as the mole.

Episode 7: Darkest Hour
With tensions between Russia and America running high over US plans to place missile defence shields in former Soviet countries, and the news that a Sugarhorse (MI5's top-secret operation with a long-term strategy to destabilise Russia's nuclear capability) asset has been found dead, Harry knows that Britain is caught in the middle of what could be a nuclear showdown.
To add to his troubles, Harry discovers that he has been framed as a Russian mole and that his arrest is imminent. He quickly takes pre-emptive action by asking Lucas to travel to Moscow to meet with an asset, Maria, who can gather key intelligence to save Britain - and Harry. Lucas agrees and leaves for Russia, just as Harry's house is stormed and he is arrested by MI5 for treason.
Harry is interrogated by Richard Dolby (DG of MI5), who accuses him of working for the Russians. He insists Harry disclose the names of his Sugarhorse assets, so that the Sugarhorse operation can be dissolved and the asssets lives saved before Russia can kill them. Harry refuses, explaining that they need the assets in place now more than ever. He explains that he has been set up by ex-MI5 officer, Bernard Qualtrough. Dolby is unconvinced but agrees to investigate Qualtrough. Back on the Grid, Dolby tells Ros the news of Harry's arrest. He asks her to inform the team that it's work as usual and that he wants them to investigate the death of the Sugarhorse asset. He also warns her that all comms are being monitored.
In Russia, Lucas has a successful meeting with Maria, although he discovers that the Russians are aware he is there. She informs him that the package is waiting for him in a bar. Inside he will find the microfilm he came for and a new identity so he can escape. Shortly after he leaves, Maria is murdered.
Realising he is not getting anywhere with Harry, Dolby sends in the formidable Charles Grady to continue the interrogation. Grady informs Harry that Qualtrough has not lived in Britain for over 20 years. The net is tightening around Harry, who is looking more and more culpable. He is stunned at the extent of Qualtrough's betrayal.
Ben notices an inconsistency in his investigation into the Sugarhorse asset's death, and goes to the archives to dig deeper. In Moscow, with the FSB closing in on him, Lucas arrives at the bar. He is relieved to find the package containing the microfilm and passport. He also discovers an incriminating photograph of Connie talking to the Russians. Connie James is the mole!
Lucas calls Ben. Ben answers the phone, unaware that Connie is behind him. Lucas tells him Connie is the mole, but Connie pulls out a knife and slits his throat.
After a visit from the Home Secretary, Harry finally confesses to working for the Russians. He personally apologises to Ros but manages to pass her a message. Ros decodes the message and uncovers a folder which proves Connie is the mole.
Harry is released and the team is distressed to learn that Connie murdered Ben. Thankfully, the names Harry gave were fakes. Connie is taken away and the team shares a moment of grief before discovering a message that the Sugarhorse asset sent before he was murdered: ‘Tiresias awakes at 3pm tomorrow'. What does it mean?

Episode 8: Rain From Heaven
With tensions between America and Russia at an all-time high, the team discovers that Britain is being used as a pawn in an international game of chess. Intelligence brought back from Moscow by Lucas reveals that Russia is planning an attack on London (codenamed Tiresias) and that it is scheduled to take place today. Tiresias is a network of silent saboteurs who have infiltrated all areas of British governance. Tiresias has a sole purpose: to cripple the United Kingdom when activated.
With the clock ticking, the team must find out in what form the attack is going to take. With everyone a potential Tiresias sleeper agent, there is only one person who can help them - Connie - and the team abducts her from MI5. She agrees to help them in exchange for freedom, and is shaken when the team tells her everything known so far about Tiresias. She reveals that the information they have uncovered is code for a nuclear bomb, a briefcase bomb, and that a Tiresias sleeper will have received the ‘go' signal earlier that day. Tens of thousands of Londoners will die, unless they get to the bomb and defuse it before 3pm. Connie also informs them, that as an insurance policy, she hid a Tiresias dossier in a dead-drop at London Bridge. The dossier contains details of all sleepers, and will tell them who is about to detonate the bomb, and where. The team has to get Connie to London Bridge and the dossier - immediately.
The FSB soon realise that it was MI5 who kidnapped their prize asset, Connie. They are instructed to get her back, dead or alive, before she co-operates. The Russians are in a strong position as Connie previously fed them information about all MI5 safe houses. As the team and Connie leave the safe house for London Bridge, it is already too late - the FSB are outside waiting for them. In a barrage of gunfire, the team manages to escape, but they are forced to split up. Lucas volunteers to act as a decoy, whilst Ros and Connie get moving. Harry goes back to the Grid to man the operation. It's a thrilling race against time to get Connie and themselves away from the Russians, safely through London and to the dossier. The team are all at their most vigilant and enterprising as they cross London using back alleys and underground tunnels, with the Russians gaining on them.
It's a high-risk strategy, but as the Russians are making ground and time is running out, Harry decides his only option is to meet the FSB operator, Sarkisian, to see if he can convince him to stop the chase. Harry tells Sarkisian about Tiresias and the bomb. It takes some convincing before Sarkisian believes Harry and orders his men to stand down. The FSB and MI5 are now in this together.
Connie gets to the dead drop with 10 minutes to spare, while the FSB find the briefcase bomb for her. Connie is now in control; only she can prevent the bomb from detonating. She manages to neutralise the nuclear element, but there is an unstoppable non-nuclear secondary device programmed to detonate if the bomb is tampered with. Connie tells Lucas and Ros to make a run for it while they can. Connie dies saving London, thus redeeming herself. However, despite working together, in an unexpected twist Harry is taken by Sarkisian...

 

 

 

 

Tom Quinn	---	Matthew Macfadyen
Zoe Reynolds	---	Keeley Hawes
Danny Hunter	---	David Oyelowo
Harry Pearce	---	Peter Firth
Adam Carter	---	Rupert Penry-Jones
Ruth Evershed	---	Nicola Walker
Malcolm Wynn-Jones	---	Hugh Simon
Sam Buxton	---	Shauna Macdonald
Colin Wells	---	Rory Macgregor
Christine Dale	---	Megan Dodds
Fiona Carter	---	Olga Sosnovska
Zafar Younis	---	Raza Jaffrey
Ros Myers	---	Hermione Norris
Juliet Shaw	---	Anna Chancellor
Jo Portman	---	Miranda Raison
Oliver Mace	---	Tim McInnerny
Christine Dale	---	Megan Dodds
Tessa Phillips	---	Jenny Agutter
Connie James	---	Gemma Jones
Lucas North	---	Richard Armitage
Ros Myers	---	Hermione Norris
Connie James	---	Gemma Jones
Ben Kaplan	---	Alex Lanipekun

Created by David Wolstencroft
Written by David Wolstencroft, Howard Brenton, Rupert Walters, Ben Richards, Raymond Khoury
Directed by Jonny Campbell, Cilla Ware, Justin Chadwick, Bill Anderson, Alrick Riley
Produced by Andrew Woodhead,
Executive Produced by Jane Featherstone, Simon Crawford Coliins, Gareth Neame, Lucy Richer

BAFTA® Awards
2002 – Best Drama Series

Series 1
"So good it makes you want to be a spy." Guardian

"The finest British thriller series in years." Heat magazine

"Smart and fast - this show should not be kept a secret." Guardian

"The problem confronted by any drama involved with special intelligence, undercover or police units is the difficulty of taking a well-worn genre and making it feel fresh and original. Spooks succeeds brilliantly - the production standards are mesmerising, and it kicks over a routine audience expectation to shocking effect. You have been warned." The Times

"This is exciting, clever, gung ho television - fast-paced and well-acted, full of split screens, technical wizardry and deft touches." The Times

Series 2
"...a genuine must-see television event. Last night's series finale was spectacular." The Times

"A smart, slick and highly effective vehicle for thrills and spills, delivering them at a cracking rate and in spectacular style." Daily Mail

"The counter-espionage business hasn't looked so glamorous since the heyday of James Bond ... It's a glossy, flashy, pacy action thriller in the tradition of The Avengers." Daily Star

"...pacy dialogue and confident plot twists..." Independent

"Good old-fashioned entertainment - this moves at a terrific pace, and has some splendid spy stuff." Financial Times

"Matthew Macfadyen as Tom does a brilliant line in sublimating personal feelings to professional duty. In Harry Pearce, Peter Firth has created one of the most compelling spymasters of all time. The baddies are extremely convincing. And I'm well and truly hooked." Daily Mail

"Terrific entertainment." The Times

"...explosive..." Daily Telegraph

"...scorching..." News of the World

Series 3
"With just the right blend of blood and vitriol in their veins, the cast of Spooks have cornered the market in spy adventures that feature passion, believability and verve. They get you hooked, then make you care. You can follow the plots without a PhD in double-speak. The goodies outwit the villains - just by a whisker. There's eye candy too, whatever your preference. And intelligence in the writing. Thank heavens it's back." Scotsman

"... the spy drama returns in terrific form with an episode that combines thriller action, the skilfully handled introduction of a new lead... and nods towards the recent activities of real spooks." Sunday Times

"This intelligent intelligence drama remains as slick, stylish, topical and taut as ever." People

"The pace is fast, the acting taut, and it looks splendid." The Times

"... awesome hi-tech British spy drama - thrilling, fast-paced storylines and an excellent cast." Sunday Mail

"Hurrah! My favourite spy show is finally back." Sun

"...classy..." Daily Star

"Great fun and a series so packed with references to recent events that it can't possibly be mindless escapism, oh no." Guardian

"...an incredibly exciting, shocking and ingenious example of Grade-A hokum." The Times

Series 4
"...one of the most thrilling and intelligent dramas on TV." People

"Spooks is back, as entertaining as ever ... The success of the series is due to a heady combination of pace, character, slick production values and a sly humour." The Times

"Spooks returns with an explosive two-part special that could hardly be more topical ... gripping storyline." Sun

"...it's classily done." Guardian

"Well-produced compelling fiction." Observer

"The component parts clicked together as neatly as a trained assassin assembling his sniper rifle." Independent

"...the shocking deaths show no one is indispensable, that anyone can be killed at any time, making the nail-biting climaxes to both instalments of this opening story more nerve-shredding still." Financial Times

"...it's all such good fun, it doesn't really matter if you don't know who's who, or have a clue what's going on ... Wonderful." Guardian

Series 5
"God, Spooks is good ... for sheer elemental life force and passion, Spooks is like a gorgeous, galloping, slightly mad horse leaping over the stymied goat of most other British dramas. It appears to have three times the brain, guts and balls of any other comparable show ... the season five opening episode blew everything else in last night's schedules out of the water ... [and] also managed to ratchet up a degree of queasy tension one more normally associates with 24." Caitlin Moran, The Times

"Glossy, cutting-edge production, good-looking cast, plenty of violent action, love interest and the sort of hype for which any self-respecting producer would pray. However ... Spooks comes across as a serious drama and gives the strong impression that the writers might have an inside take on today's secret world." Richard M Bennett, Daily Express

"...at least half the joy of Spooks comes from its ability to root the plot in vaguely plausible scenarios. The other half comes from the way in which they then crank those plotlines up far, far beyond the call of duty until they resemble something from your worst nightmare and leave you thinking, 'Don't be ridiculous that could never happen in this country. . . or wait, could it?' ... It's all completely unbelievable and utterly addictive. Welcome back Spooks, we've missed you." Sarah Hughes, Observer

"With its pulsating energy, eerie topicality and high-end cinematic values, Spooks is still the classiest, paciest and most entertaining hokum on television." David Chater, The Times

"...consistently excellent..." Janine Gibson, Guardian

"...a rare BBC gem ... Le Carré brought bang-up-to-date with ultra-modern technology and - heavens above! - female spies just as cool and ruthless as the men." Alison Roberts, London Evening Standard

"...bold and glossy with a cinematic feel ... tightly structured, reminiscent of long-running American series such as ER or maybe even a Hollywood movie ... Aside from its glamour and rumbustious content, there is something appealing about the feel of the show. Spooks combines slick American production values ... with sardonic wit. There is also a touch of darkness, another distinctively British feature." Angella Johnson, Mail On Sunday

"The job of a good spy thriller is to lead us on an elaborate narrative dance. But in Spooks the plot doesn't just twist, it also jives, lambadas and pogos, often at the same time ... It's fast, cleverly put together and it works." Andrew Anthony, Observer

"For a true picture of what is threatening our country, we are now obliged to watch Spooks every week. This slick series is now the television equivalent of the Home Office - but twice as efficient ... The plot churned away like a well-turned thriller..." David Stephenson, Express on Sunday

Series 6

"There's enough grounding in real world affairs to give Spooks a kind of plausibility. But there's no holding back on the action, either. It's like John le Carré on speed. And it's fabulous fun."  - Sam Wollaston, Guardian

"Spooks is over the top, unrealistic and more absurd than Amy Winehouse's beehive... but brilliant. The production is as slick as Brendan Cole's chat-up lines and for anyone looking for an hour's escapism, it's perfect. Back for a new series and despite more cast changes over the years than Jordan's had boob jobs, it has lost none of its appeal. It is totally unbelievable, but action-packed ... Telly doesn't have to be rooted in reality ... Spooks doesn't take itself too seriously and neither should we."  - Jon Wise, People

"The opening episode of season six has all the right ingredients: a surprise romantic development, chemical weapons, an undercover operation to assassinate an Iranian terrorist on his home turf and a home secretary who makes the spooks look like the Red Cross."  - Sunday Times

"...enjoyable hokum. It is topical and exciting, performed without irony and filled with technological wizardry ... These guys are dedicated, attractive and armed to the teeth with Apple Macs."  - David Chater, The Times

"Hurray! The sleek spy show is back ... as breathless and glossy as ever."  - London Evening Standard

"...absorbing..."  - Observer

"The slick post-9/11 espionage drama returns with a fresh run of high-tension skulduggery."  - Independent

"Our best home-grown espionage thriller."  - Mail on Sunday

"A train, a traitor, a bomb, a bioweapon, a magnetic pulse, proud Americans, a woman called Miriam and a new haircut for Jo ignite a thrilling 10-episode story arc."  - Guardian

"The opening episode of this tightly-written and fast-paced show is as nail-biting as you would come to expect."  - Daily Express

"Don't know about you, but we're gripped."  - Sunday Mirror

"We just can't get enough of those super-sharp spies ... This is the sixth series of the spy drama - but it seems like only yesterday Lisa Faulkner got deep fat-fried."  - Tim Teeman, The Times

"...fascinating as well as gripping..."  - Critics' Choice, Sunday Times

"Peter Firth, who has been holding the whole show together as Harry, the only remaining original character, is still wonderfully acerbic ... the unlikely plot starts to suck you in and there's a great cliffhanger."  - Andrea Mullaney, Scotsman

"Spooks powers along in fine style."  - David Stephenson, Sunday Express

"Spooks is back - as slick, glossy and ridiculous as ever."  - Garry Bushell, Daily Star

"The finest British thriller series in years."  - Heat

"Rarely has a British drama series shown such spirit and zeal in its sixth series as Spooks has. (Rarely, in fact, does a British drama of such a calibre even reach a sixth series.) Sure, the plots are full of holes and the characters sometimes not much more than sketchy, but the exploits of Adam et al are done with such confidence that they are irresistible. And as the serial centred on British-US-Iranian relations comes to an end, there's no respite from the high stakes or the high-octane thrills."  - Gareth McLean, Guardian

Series 7

"Rare is the returning British drama that gets you giddy but, back for its seventh series and resolving last year's big cliffhanger, Spooks returns triumphant. It's no secret that Ros is back, Adam is leaving and new boy Lucas North (Richard Armitage) has been rescued from a Russian prison, but how it all plays out is a delight." Gareth McLean, Guardian

"You can rely on Spooks to keep you up to speed on whos topping the league table of Britain's international enemies. So, Cold War nostalgics will no doubt relish the return of the pesky Ruskies to No1, though, in keeping with the confusing times we live in, al-Qaedas teen-terrorists have to be added into the mix, just to turn paranoia levels up to the max. Though it overplays the Queen-and-country card at times, Spooks combines slick action and spy suspense with a style and panache second to none on British TV. It builds a world where no one is indispensable and nothing is what it seems; a point underscored by the explosive departure of Adam Carter. Exit Rupert Penry-Jones and enter Richard Armitage which is quite a thought to conjure with." Keith Watson, London Metro

"An explosive start to the new series of Spooks delivers yet another of the massive shocks we've almost come to expect. But in an exceptionally dark episode, one of the more welcome surprises sees MI5 bolstered by former Robin Hood star Richard Armitage." Jane Simon, Daily Mirror

"...it's an unmissably breathless return for Britain's last line of defence against a dangerous world ...at the heart of the new series is a fiendishly diabolical plot being hatched by the spy chief of the FSB, Russia's intelligence service ... Little nods to reality in the way of energy industry deals and Chechen terrorism mean you can't dismiss it all as wild fantasy..." Ben Felsenburg, London Lite

"...this opener is undoubtedly explosive and ... flaunts British intelligence in every sense of the word." Victoria Segal, Sunday Times

"Another action-packed episode as the acclaimed espionage drama now enters its seventh series." Daily Express

"An exciting opener..." Gerard Gilbert, Independent

"...it's more like a Cold War reprise than ever, with lots of Le Carré-like sequences of meetings on bridges and double-triple agentry." Andrea Mullaney, Scotsman

"It's great to have Spooks back ... Already, a new threat from the pesky Russians is emerging that'll test them all. Don't be surprised, too, if you start questioning every BBC TV news report you see in future and wondering what the real story behind it might be." Jane Simon, Daily Mirror