[ spooks ] (David Wolstencroft / Simon Mirren / Howard Brenton)

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Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			KLT 62004
Title			[ spooks ]
Artist(s)			David Wolstencroft / Simon Mirren / Howard Brenton
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
Item deleted?			Yes
Released			2002
Distributed / printed by			Contender Entertainment Group
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Dramas View all other tracks listed as Dramas.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			DVP16313 KLT62004ARO/L1 07 0MM Technicolor DVP16315 KLT62004BRO/L1 02 A03 Technicolor DVP16317 KLT62004ARO/L1 06 A03 Technicolor
My rating			*****
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Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	Thou shalt not kill [David Wolstencroft]	59.15
A2	Looking after our own [David Wolstencroft]	59.08
Featurettes
A3	Profile - Tom Quinn (Matthew Macfadyen)	2.10
A4	Creating Spooks - David Wolstencroft	3.18
A5	Directing ep. 1-2 - Bharat Nalluri	5.30
A6	Gallery
B1	One last dance [Simon Mirren]	59.03
B2	Traitor's gate [Howard Brenton]	59.17
Featurettes
B3	Profile - Danny Hunter (David Oyelowo)	1.28
B4	Profile - Tessa Phillips (Jenny Agutter)	1.46
B5	Appraisal - Tom Quinn	1.41
B6	Intelligence report - Jools Siviter	3.17
B7	The terror question (911)	5.22
B8	Gallery
B9	Deleted scenes	2.44
C1	The rose bed memoirs [Howard Brenton]	58.47
C2	Lesser of two evils [David Wolstencroft / Howard Brenton]	58.29
Featurettes
C3	The world of spies	9.03
C4	The producers - What they do	3.00
C5	Appraisal - Tessa Phillips	5.40
C6	Gallery
Total length of media 6:38:58.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts
Starring Matthew Macfadyen (Tom Quinn) Keeley Hawes (Zoe Reynolds) David Oyelowo (Danny Hunter) Peter Firth (Harry Pearce) Jenny Agutter (Tessa Philips) Lisa Faulkner (Helen Flynn) Esther Hall (Ellie Simm) Heather Cave (Maisie) Hugh Simon (Malcolm Wynn-Jones) Greame Mearns (Jed Kelley) Rory MacGregor - Colin Wells (Episode 1) Megan Dodds - Christine Dale (Episode 1) Kevin McNally - Robert Osbourne (Episode 2) Debra Stephenson - Claire Osbourne (Episode 2) Hugh Laurie - Jools Siviter (Episodes 4 & 5) Anthony Head - Peter Salter (Episode 4) Tim Pigott-Smith - Hampton Wilder (Episode 5) Naoko Mori - Lover of Danny's (Episode 5) Lorcan Cranitch - Patrick McCann (Episode 6) Written by David Wolstencroft Simon Mirren Howard Brenton Produced by Simon Crawford Collins Directed by Bharat Nalluri Synopsis Episode 1 Section D of MI5 is on the case when a car bomb detonates in Liverpool, killing family planning doctor Sarah Lynott (Karen Westwood). The agents determine that it is the work of an extremist pro-life movement, led by American terrorist Mary Kane (Lisa Eichhorn), who smuggled herself and 20 bombs into the country to set up cells. Zoe Reynolds (Keeley Hawes) poses as a sympathiser, and learns of Kane's next intended target. Zoe then poses as the target, Diane Sullivan, and lures Kane to a trap, and she is arrested. After Kane informs team leader Tom Quinn (Matthew Macfadyen) of the location of every cell she set up in the United Kingdom, he sends her to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which returns her to Florida to be executed. Meanwhile, Tom enters a relationship with a civilian, Ellie Simm (Esther Hall) after an unrelated operation, going under the psudonym Matthew Archer, a civil servant. Episode 2 Tom and junior case officer Helen Flynn (Lisa Faulkner) are sent to expose right-wing leader Robert Osbourne (Kevin McNally), who is planning a race war in the UK. MI5 previously attempted to bug his home, only to find high-end security equipment. Tom and Helen pose as a married couple to befriend Claire, Osbourne's wife, who is being abused by him. MI5 believe that Osbourne intends to choke the asylum system, incite the race war and have Member of Parliament Bill Watson raise the issue of asylum seekers. After they recruit Claire to help them, Tom and Helen are kidnapped by Osbourne's gang to be interrogated. When Tom fails to divulge any information, Osbourne forces Helen's hand, then head, into a deep fryer, before shooting her in the head. Claire then causes a distraction to allow Tom's escape, by throwing a cigarette into the fryer, igniting it. Though pressured by the government to continue tailing Osbourne, superior Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) has him assassinated as retribution for Helen's death. Episode 3 Zoe is sent on a standard bugging operation at the Turkish consulate. Midway through, the consulate is raided by Kurdish rebels, who hold everybody hostage and demand the release of their captured comrades. In the meantime, Tessa Phillips (Jenny Agutter) recognises Johnny Marks (Christopher Fulford), a former asset and lover of Tessa's, who was believed to have been killed in a car bomb in Northern Ireland several years before. It is revealed that Marks is handling the Kurdish rebels as a distraction to break into a nearby bank to obtain the identities of every MI5 and MI6 agent. Tom is assigned to negotiate the hostage situation, while Danny Hunter (David Oyelowo) and a team arrive at the bank to engage Marks' men. MI5 fake a news report detailing the "release" of the captured rebels. Tom is shot and wounded by a rebel before CO19 (armed police) take back the consulate. Marks escapes and visits Tessa that evening. Marks learns Tessa was once pregnant with his child; after a change of heart, he only takes the stolen money, leaving behind the files on the agents' identities. Episode 4 While observing an anti-globalisation rally in anticipation for President of the United States George W. Bush's visit to the country, Danny and Zoe recognise Peter Salter (Anthony Head), a legendary MI5 officer and Tom's recruiter. Salter is undercover as part of a joint MI5/6 operation to bring down an anarchist group led by Istvan Vogel (Jules Werner), which intends to attack Bush. However, Tom believes Salter may have defected to Vogel when it emerges that he is in love with one of the members, Andrea Chambers (Bronwen Davies). This is confirmed when Salter evades his superiors. He and Vogel break into a university campus to tamper with an Air Traffic Control system in an effort to bring down Bush's plane. After Salter is captured, he hangs himself before revealing what he did. However, Danny realises his intentions, and as a result, Bush's plane is redirected to Paris. Meanwhile, Zoe realises Tessa is running phantom agents for monetary gain, and is bribed 10,000 to keep quiet. Tom is forced to reveal to Ellie that he is a spy. Ellie grows to accept it to some degree by the end of the episode. Episode 5 Disgraced MP and born-again Christian Hampton Wilder (Tim Pigott-Smith) is released from prison after serving a sentence for embezzlement. He reveals to Harry that he wrote memoirs, which implicate fellow MP Richard Maynard (Nicholas Farrell) and himself of performing illegal arms deals. However the memoirs have been stolen. Through the investigation behind Maynard, it is revealed that MI6 stole the memoirs; Jools Siviter (Hugh Laurie) hands them over, but as MI5 review them, they find it is nothing but explicit "trash". Maynard suddenly resigns to teach at Harvard University, as Jools reveals to Harry that Maynard is a CIA asset. Meanwhile, Tom's relationship with Ellie is further strained when her daughter Maisie's (Heather Cave) father returns. When the father digs into Tom's professional life, he is confronted by MI5 officers and is forced to disappear. Zoe is struggling to deal with Tessa's corruption, and Danny attempts to convince her to tell Harry. Episode 6 Tom upgrades the security systems in his home to keep Ellie and Maisie safe from potential harm. Meanwhile, the head of an Irish splinter group, Patrick McCann (Lorcan Cranitch), demands to see an MI5 officer. When Tom sees him, McCann reveals that a Sudanese terrorist group called Asabiyah will attack the Sefton B nuclear power station, but McCann will only disclose the details if his group goes unwatched for 30 hours. Harry vetoes McCann's proposal; however, Tom, believing the threat is credible, asks the Director General of MI5 to override Harry. McCann's group takes the opportunity to plant a bomb at Broad Street Station. MI5 is able to prevent any casualties in the attack and fool McCann, and he gives Tom the needed details of the attack via a laptop; special forces are able to kill two Asabiyah terrorists before they can fire a rocket at Sefton B. Zoe finally brings herself to reveal Tessa's corruption to Harry, who then fires Tessa. Later, McCann calls Tom to reveal that his group rigged the laptop with C4 with the hopes of disabling MI5. However, Tom has stored the laptop in his home. The security measures at his home malfunction, and the series ends on a cliffhanger with Ellie and Maisie trapped in the home, and Tom outside helpless to save them.
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