MI-5 (TV Series) Nest of Angels (2003) User Reviews

Episode 2.2

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 14 May 2019]

A prescient episode of Spooks, broadcast two years before the London bombings of 7th of July.

It features a stand out performance by Alexander Siddig. He plays an Algerian spy Ibhn Khaldun who wants to defect to Britain and work for UK intelligence.

Tom uses him to infiltrate a mosque in Birmingham. Its Afghan imam is recruiting vulnerable youths to be suicide bombers.

Tom is unsure if he can trust Khaldun and unsure of his agenda.

Ruth Evershed makes her debut in this episode, she and Harry go on to create a special relationship in Spooks.

This a tense, unnerving episode right from the beginning when a young man is thrown out of a window.

Imdb is strange

[jasonbuckley-02962 · 8/10 · 15 February 2022]

Very strange that IMDB does not credit the star of this show.

Siddig gets no mention.

Why is that?

Was it by his request?

Was it because IMDB is not very good?

Doctor Bashir Shines!

[Johnny_West · 10/10 · 3 August 2022]

Alexander Siddiq, who played Doctor Bashir on Deep Space 9 stars as an Algerian undercover agent working for the MI-5 crew. As usual, most of the MI-5 time is spent with nobody knowing what to do, and a constant indecision about everything among themselves. This part of the show is getting boring and old.

It also seems like Tom Quinn and his girlfriend drama may finally be over. Hopefully we will be spared the endless whining and nagging caused by his Mommy issues and need for love.

Siddiq infiltrates a mosque that is training kids to be suicide bombers, and Siddiq shows the members that he is committed to Islam, and he tries to reach the kid who is chosen to be the first bomber. The story has good twists and turns, so that you are not sure what Siddiq is really up to until the very end. The ending is action-packed, fast-paced, sad, and shocking. This is the best episode of this series so far.

A highly dramatic and believable episode

[keith-618 · 10/10 · 27 May 2020]

Written by Howard Brenton, this is perhaps my favourite episode ever. From a time when the programme was rooted in credible trade craft before the less believable thrills and spills of later series took hold.