Spooks - Episode 6

It was with relief that Spooks returned from the financial confusion of last week’s episode to a more easily understood, though by no means less complicated, clash of peace delegation parties. With the Palistinian and Iranian parties in town and Londons governmental and NATO overseers, the Spooks were back on the grid to protect, maintain and keep terror threats to an absolute whisper to keep from un-nerving anyone in the delegation parties. So when a secret and high alert terrorist weapon suddenly turned up for sale on Ebay the team were set into hyper drive and Lucas was sent to retrieve the item as quickly and as quietly as possible.

Arriving on the doorstep of the Ebay seller it was surprising to see that he was in fact far from a terrorist, more he was just a teen out for a quick buck or two. Quickly acquiring the weapon back into MI5 hands Lucas was set to leave when, as always happens, complications arrived in the form of secret agents, seemingly flying under the grid.

With Lucas, Dean Mitchell, our dear teen gun seller, and his mother on the run it was up to Ros and the rest of team back at base to discover what was going on…..this made all the much harder when they discovered that it was actually a rogue agent called Michael Sands, he had been monitoring every word and movement made by the team, and thus all communication with Lucas had to be kept to an absolute minimum. The story unfolded with Dean having been witness to the assassin of a photographer, the gun used wiped out all electric mechanisms and so one pull of the lever and the hapless motorcyclist and photographer had ended up under the wheels of a rather large lorry. Dean, having cycled like frenzy away from the scene was followed by Sands, and in a twist of fortune Sands ended up being hit by a car and Dean, seizing the opportunity grabbed the bag plus gun and ran. However, it wasn’t that simple, there was something more that Sands wanted, it wasn’t just the gun and Lucas, making the connection realised that there was something in the backpack, and thereupon retrieving it discovered a small photo containing chip, a photo of the governmental first minister trying to coerce the head of the NATO and overseer of the delegation team, to quit. It was all carried out in wonderful Spooks fashion, running, jumping, kidnapping, hiding, all the elements that provide a great Spooks episode. But Spooks decided to take it one further. Upon recovery of the evidence and end of the delegation the team realised that Dean and his mother had to go into witness protection, Dean had seen too much, he knew too much and he would always be in danger. But as many obstreperous teens do Dean rebelled and ran at the last minute, leaving a surprising and tragic end to the story as Dean took a bullet to his head. Having spent the entire episode protecting Dean, Lucas had failed at the last and un-seemingly timed minute.

Of course, Sugarhorse continued to rattle on in the background with Harry turning to trusted Connie to meet a foreign asset coming with important information. The usual subterfuge and undercover tactics were used to make their meeting of as innocuous as possible and soon Harry had the file in his hands, the one that would reveal who the mole was, only problem was, upon opening it, the mole was himself! Framed and in direct line of fire with his team wondering whether he was the mole or not would Harry, a Spooks institution, finally see his last days?

Is it all about to end for Harry Pearce?

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