Spooks

Spooks

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BBC One Ended Drama • Thriller • Espionage

10 Seasons · 86 Episodes · Premiered May 13, 2002 · Ended October 23, 2011

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation.A team of agents in the British security intelligence service work to protect the U.K. from terrorists and other threats to national security. A repackaged version of the BBC series "Spooks," "MI-5" follows a counterterrorism unit based in the highly secure suite of offices called The Grid, where Harry Pearce oversees the team and deals with the often dirty politics of the spy game.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

6 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Mon, May 13 2002 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Tom is informed of 20 bombs that have gone astray in Liverpool. Minutes later a car bomb kills a family-planning doctor and their daughter. Can the team find the remaining 19 bombs before they go off?
E02
Episode 2
Mon, May 20 2002 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Race riots are becoming a national problem; MI5 are sure that businessman Robert Osbourne is responsible. Tom recruits MI5 secretary, Helen, to befriend Osbourne's wife and recruit her as a source.
E03
Episode 3
Mon, May 27 2002 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
While at the Turkish Embassy, Zoe is caught up in a siege by the Kurdish Liberation Army. Led by Leyla Ahmed, the rebels demand Kurdish prisoners be released from Turkey in return for hostages.
E04
Episode 4
Tue, Jun 4 2002 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Danny and Zoe are sent to London as anti-capitalist demonstrations intensify ahead of President Bush's UK visit. Peter Salter is on an operation to infiltrate an anarchist group, but Tom suspects his motives.
E05
Episode 5
Mon, Jun 10 2002 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Disgraced MP Hampton Wilder's memoirs, written whilst in prison, could create a scandal big enough to bring down the government - and the manuscript has gone missing. As Tom and his team try to distinguish fact from fiction, an ex-KGB spy is murdered and the manuscript is mysteriously leaked to the press. Tom begins to wonder who's really pulling the strings in this operation.
E06
Episode 6
Mon, Jun 17 2002 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Patrick McCann, an Irish terrorist, promises Tom information on a planned attack on a nuclear power station. But there's a catch - MI5 must allow McCann's group to go unwatched for 30 hours.

Season 2

10 episodes

Season 3

10 episodes

Season 4

10 episodes

Season 5

10 episodes

Season 6

10 episodes

Season 7

8 episodes

Season 8

8 episodes

Season 9

8 episodes

Season 10

6 episodes
Peter Firth
Peter Firth as Harry Pearce
Hugh Simon
Hugh Simon as Malcolm Wynn-Jones
Nicola Walker
Nicola Walker as Ruth Evershed
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert Penry-Jones as Adam Carter
Miranda Raison
Miranda Raison as Jo Portman
Rory MacGregor
Rory MacGregor as Colin Wells
Hermione Norris
Hermione Norris as Ros Myers
David Oyelowo
David Oyelowo as Danny Hunter
Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage as Lucas North
Raza Jaffrey
Raza Jaffrey as Zafar Younis
Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes as Zoe Reynolds
Shauna MacDonald
Shauna MacDonald as Sam Buxton

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