User Reviews

This episode was a bit annoying for several reasons. Kate like always falls into a puppy-love crush with every informant that the MI-5 find, and spends the entire episode whining and complaining about the danger to the informant.

Tom like usual, has personal relationship problems with his current CIA girlfriend. Tom never seems to be on-point with any woman, and I think the show would have been less annoying if he had come out as gay.

Tessa, the slimy trash that used to work for MI-5 is using Sam as a mole in MI-5 and has all the info regarding their investigation of the Columbian drug cartel. Tessa then sells that info to get the informant killed, and she sends a video to Harry telling him she got the informant killed. What does Harry do? Nothing. Very disappointing that a lot of stories have that lame resolution of "That's just the way it is for spies and their informants. Too bad. Walk it off"

Meanwhile, as often happens on this mostly-talky show, all the Columbian drug cartel guys are apprehended off-camera, and there is basically no action at all in this episode, just a lot of whining and complaining by almost every character.

The Spooks team deal with a Colombian drugs cartel. A particular nasty bunch as they kill everyone in a surveillance vehicle just as Tom popped out.

Ruth questions what MI5 are doing dealing with such vipers. Tom and Zoe pressurise the girlfriend of a cartel hitman to make a link with a prominent British businessman and the cartel.

A cynical episode, the businessman has friends high up in the government. It feeds into Tom's resentment with the service and with Harry Pearce.

This episode also marks the return of Tessa Phillips. There is no love lost between Tessa and Harry.

I did not think this was a particular good episode. I expected more fireworks between Tessa and Harry. The Colombian drug cartel in Britain did not make much of an interesting episode for Spooks.