Episode #10.2 (25 Sep. 2011)
"Spooks" Episode #10.2 (original title)

Calum Reed is attacked outside Thames House and a laptop containing the information of A Grade MI5 Assets is stolen. A threat is made to release the details of the agents, one of which ... See full summary »

Director:

Alrick Riley

Writers:

Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent

Stars:

Russell Balogh, Max Brown, Peter Firth

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Russell Balogh	...	Gavrik's Aide
Max Brown	...	Dimitri Levendis
Peter Firth	...	Harry Pearce
William Hope	...	Jim Coaver
Alice Krige	...	Elena Gavrik
Shazad Latif	...	Tariq Masood
Lydia Leonard	...	Martha Forde
Lara Pulver	...	Erin Watts
Simon Russell Beale	...	Home Secretary William Towers
Geoffrey Streatfield	...	Calum Reed
Nicola Walker	...	Ruth Evershed
Tom Weston-Jones	...	Sasha Gavrik
Joe Wredden	...	Anatoly

Storyline

Calum Reed is attacked outside Thames House and a laptop containing the information of A Grade MI5 Assets is stolen. A threat is made to release the details of the agents, one of which includes Martha Forde (Lydia Leonard) who has connections to Russian Minister Ilya Gavrik, meaning the Russian/UK partnership is also at risk. In a race against time, the team must recover the laptop before any of the assets identities are revealed. Meanwhile, Harry meets Elena at the Opera House to discuss who has been posing as him, as his relationship with Ruth becomes more frail. And Tariq finds a crucial piece of information about who stole the MI5 Laptop, but can he contact Harry and get back to Thames House in time?

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Plot Keywords:

special relationship | mi5

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

25 September 2011 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Tower Bridge Business Complex, Bermondsey, London, England, UK

Company Credits

User Reviews

Back to the future ... the Cold War mark 2

I disagree. I thought this episode was superb. It was taut, exciting, and never lost pace. Yes, the technology may not be used in exactly the correct way, yes, there may be the occasional unlikely coincidence. But quite frankly I was too enthralled by the developing story to notice those. Very clever writing to pick up on and quietly poke fun at both the recent spate of lost laptops/forgotten classified documents and the publication of secret government information by Wikileaks. There were touches of humour and superb acting. I speak Russian, and while the Russian accents might not be perfect, they're acceptable to me. Would it really convey anything more if half the programme had to be watched by most of the audience on subtitles? I am warming to Callum, whose sarky comments remind me of Ros Myers; my only problem so far with this series is Lara Pulver, whose casting I feel to have been a mistake. She's trying hard - perhaps too much - but she's on screen with giants, and seems to me to be having a lot of trouble holding her own. But for me, at least, that didn't spoil a riveting episode and a shocking twist at the end that I completely failed to anticipate.