User Reviews

MI-5 has more employee turnover than a Taco Bell. They are dropping like flies at MI-5. This episode features British mercenaries that may be working for the USA, trying to start a plague in the UK. It all started in Iran, with the US misleading the UK into trying to assassinate an Iranian biological warfare scientist. What the US really wanted was for the deadly virus to be released.

When a survivor gets to the UK, all hell breaks loose as everyone is pretending not to know, and others are trying to spread the virus while the MI-5 are trying to get the vaccine.

It is a pretty good episode, except sometimes there are so many sub-plots that it gets annoying and/or ridiculous. In the midst of all the turmoil, poor Zaffar gets captured and then lost, possibly forever.

Series six does not really measure up to the high standards Spooks has set. First of all, visually it's much more conventional than the earlier series. But stories and characters were always Spooks' strongest assets. The stories are just not as gripping as they used to be and they seem to be running out of ideas. The first two episodes are about biological warfare, the third is about chemical warfare. The development of the story lines is sometimes not very convincing in terms of arriving at a solution. Too often there is the deus ex machina which is not satisfying. The characters are interesting as always, particularly nerw arrival Connie. Ros was never my favourite character but now she definitely develops in s very strange way. That in itself is not a bad thing but there are things going on which someone should notice but no one does. So all in all, it's entertaining but Spooks is definitely running out of steam.