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Zoe and Danny are covering an anti-George Bush protest march when they notice that one of the ringleaders of the march is a famous MI-5 agent, Peter Salter. He is undercover for MI-6 and MI-5 weren't informed. MI-5 and MI-6 keep him under surveillance with Tom as his handler. It appears that Salter may be too close to the group he has infiltrated and has changed sides. Tom has to make a critical decision.

An episode that was excellent for the most part but then let itself down at the end. For most of it was a tight thriller: has Salter gone over to the other side or is he a brilliant triple agent? Some neat twists and turns and it was set up for a great ending.

Unfortunately, the ending is bit of a damp squib. There's some silly contrivances and it doesn't make much sense.

Ultimately okay but a fairly disappointing.

When American President George W Bush did visit the UK, it was unpopular. After all he did not even win the popular vote in the Presidential elections.

Footage of the protests are used in this episode. Danny and Zoe identify Peter Salter as one of the lead agitators.

Salter is a legend in the MI5 but Danny and Zoe are at a loss what his mission is.

Harry tells them both to forget everything they saw regarding Salter. Harry is managing his mission with MI6 to catch a leading European anarchist.

Tom finds out that Salter is in love with one of his cell members and he is compromised. There is a mirror between Salter and Tom in this episode. Tom finally admits to Ellie that he is a spy because he loves her.

Salter might have put the President's visit in danger. However Danny stumbles on to an important clue.

There is good teamwork in this episode and Hugh Laurie makes his first appearance as a sinister MI6 boss Jools Siviter.

So Buffy the Vampire Slayer's handler (Anthony Head) was a top MI-5 spy. A flabby middle-aged guy in love with a hot twenty year old enemy spy. He betrays his country, and in the middle of it all the main MI-5 cast are too busy worshipping Anthony Head, to stop him. He runs amuck over all of them.

The team of Danny & Zoe are assigned to maintain surveillance on Anthony Head, but they get arrested by street cops because they are so obvious that the street cops think they are casing houses to burglarize them. Head and his girlfriend get a laugh as they watch the coppers arresting MI-5, and then they escape to plot the assassination of visiting U. S. President Bush.

When Head and his enemy spy team goes to the University that has the Air Traffic Controller database and the geographic map records for the national database, nobody at MI-5 thinks to check that out. The MI-5 crew assume a top spy ring went to the University to steal computer towers that even in 2002 were selling for less than $500 each??

Eventually the brain trust at MI-5 realizes that the U. S. President's plane can be guided to crash, thanks to the Air Traffic Controller database that Anthony Head and his enemy spy team had downloaded.

This episode was very disappointing as to how incompetent the MI-5 team was, and how they got played and outsmarted constantly. Anthony Head ran circles around MI-5, and he did not even need Buffy to help him. At the end of this story, there is a cut to a congratulatory speech about the success of MI-5, yet the previous scene showed that Anthony Head and his spies got away. The conclusion did not make much sense, though at least the President's plane did not get shot down.