Spooks is back - 20th September 2010

[thatone1967]

Decided to start a new thread to avoid confusion....



According to the BBC Press office, this is back on 20th September

Hope it's better than last years!



Spooks Ep 1/8
New series
Monday 20 September
9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE

• www.bbc.co.uk/spooks
• Feature

The team at Section D is in mourning following the tragic death of Ros Myers, who was killed in an explosion while trying to save the British Home Secretary, as the award-winning spy drama returns for its ninth series. Section Chief Harry Pearce is hit particularly hard by the loss and he's dismayed to learn that a trusted friend has blood on their hands. Harry wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it.

One month later, Lucas North boards a ship in Tangier to track rising Somalian Al Qaeda star, Abib. Alongside Lucas is Special Boat Service (SBS) agent Dimitri Levendes, who is masquerading as the ship's captain. An unexpected interruption from what appears to be Somali pirates puts Lucas in mortal danger. His unlikely saviour is an Eastern European prostitute, who he later discovers is undercover mercenary Beth Bailey, also sent to track Abib.

The pirates are a much bigger threat than first anticipated – they are in fact an Al Qaeda cell who have smuggled explosives onboard and are headed for the UK.

After escaping the ship and returning to London, Lucas and the rest of Section D concentrate on stopping the floating bomb. Beth, who is keen for a job on the Grid, turns up unexpectedly with information about the boat. Harry remembers Beth from the past and is unsure whether she can be trusted but, with time running out, the team has no other option. Harry is forced into taking drastic action to prevent a terrorist attack that could hit Britain at its very heart – the Houses of Parliament.

Meanwhile, Lucas is shocked when he is visited by an unwelcome ghost from his past.

Harry Pearce is played by Peter Firth, Lucas North by Richard Armitage, Abib by Peter Bankole, Dimitri Levendes by Max Brown and Beth Bailey by Sophia Myles.

KM3

[thatone1967]

bump

[thatone1967]

bump as a reminder...

[thatone1967]

fullbeem said:

Story is a bit weak tonight imo

Did we watch the same episode??

Thought it was back to it's brilliant best!

Bit gutted that they did not show next weeks over on BBC 3 though....

Edited by thatone1967 on Monday 20th September 22:15

[thatone1967]

jonnylarge said:

fullbeem said:

Story is a bit weak tonight imo

You can't say that. I'm going to try a reverse IP reveal to track you down...

Glad to help..



http://www.ip-adress.com/reverse_ip/

[thatone1967]

MiniMan64 said:

The new guy who was on the boat with the dodgy accent, what's he been in before?

IMDB is your friend!

Mistresses perhaps?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114238/

[thatone1967]

It's an BA Aircraft (G-BDXH or J I think) had B52 style engines fitted for the bond movie...

[thatone1967]

marshalla said:

Nom de ploom said:

who was the guy with the case at the end?

The real Lucas.

Could not work, unless he had very extensive plastic surgery.. everyone (Or Harry at least) had met Lucas before.

[thatone1967]

BUMP....on now...

[thatone1967]

JerseyS2000 said:

Bit meh so far but I'll keep watching like I always do

Is it just me or has the blonde new bird (Sophia Myles is it?) put on a *lot* of weight since playing a rather foxy Lady Penelope in the ste Thunderbirds movie? Ahem, not that I watched it, of course.

Ah... the Thunderbirds movie.. .quite possibly the most dissapointing movie I have ever seen!

[thatone1967]

munky said:

Odd that Westhouse's security goons didn't notice anything amiss about getting a phone call from a liaison officer at "Surrey Hills police", which doesn't exist, not to mention that the mansion was in Berkshire and not Surrey. A script mistake?

But to be fair, would you have known that if you were not local to the area?

[thatone1967]

munky said:

Jonny671 said:

munky said:

thatone1967 said:

munky said:

Odd that Westhouse's security goons didn't notice anything amiss about getting a phone call from a liaison officer at "Surrey Hills police", which doesn't exist, not to mention that the mansion was in Berkshire and not Surrey. A script mistake?

But to be fair, would you have known that if you were not local to the area?

Local or not, I'd still know that the Surrey Hills are likely to be in... Surrey, and that Berkshire is not in Surrey. It seems like an odd mistake to make, given their attention to adding in as much fact as possible to the fiction to make it plausible. Unless it's some clever joke referring to Al Fayed and the oil under his Surrey mansion that he failed to get royalties from, but that would seem rather obscure. And then why specify that the house is in Berkshire, it makes no sense.

I must have not been paying attention.. Did they actually say where the mansion was, other than the call from "Surrey Hills Police", as Foxhills is in Surrey and I'd guess its just easier to keep it all in the "affluent" area of Surrey?

Yes, I am from Surrey

Yep, they specified Berkshire, and it was also specified on his file on screen (sadly I paused it to double check!)

A "Surry" Hills police station does exist - in Australia though!

So they are catering for the export market!! Good thinking BBC!

[thatone1967]

Legend83 said:

Matt.. said:

Within 2 seconds he could recite the entire floor plan of Charing Cross (?) tube station.

Route to work in the mornings?

[thatone1967]

Castrol Craig said:

petemurphy said:

bet they kill of malcolm theres me thinking he was the only person bar harry to survive from the past!

loving this series


ps how did the it guy do a search of faces when they knew what was happening on the grid

he had a hand held device with the database encyrypted on it but not connected to it.

Does it REALLY Matter... I thought that this was a superb episode!

[thatone1967]

Castrol Craig said:

rupert penry jones was seen on set of this series of spooks several times, ive always thought he didnt really die, he just went off to spend time with his son etc, and then come back to save harry/ruth/malcolm.

I agree with this, and the general concensu among people on the Spooks forums is that this is the case..

Just re-read your comments.. so it sounds like he IS coming back then?

Edited by thatone1967 on Tuesday 26th October 13:39

[thatone1967]

Castrol Craig said:

rupert penry jones was seen on set of this series of spooks several times, ive always thought he didnt really die, he just went off to spend time with his son etc, and then come back to save harry/ruth/malcolm.

I agree with this, and the general concensu among people on the Spooks forums is that this is the case..

[thatone1967]

********************Spoiler Alert*********************

just been reading some interesting stuff over on the Spooks Forums...

http://newspooks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2300

Edited by thatone1967 on Tuesday 26th October 18:05

[thatone1967]

JungleJim said:

Oh, and one last thing that wasn't clear to me - when they knew the grid had been compromised how come they didn't simply disconnect from the internet!

Exactly what I said!

[thatone1967]

TonyHetherington said:

thatone1967 said:

JungleJim said:

Oh, and one last thing that wasn't clear to me - when they knew the grid had been compromised how come they didn't simply disconnect from the internet!

Exactly what I said!

Surely somewhere in that room is a massive switch with "lock down" on it, that completely seals off all the systems and instantly protects all the data!?

If MI5 didn't have one, I bet it's being installed as we speak...

[thatone1967]

The GMan said:

liked getting her tits out.

Good Girl!