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Spooks

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Spooks	comment	Spooks is a BBC drama revolving around a team of MI-5 officers who must juggle their professional lives, working to protect the British state from domestic threats, whilst living semi-anonymous private lives shrouded in secrecy, misdirection, and false identities. Its inaugural series won the BAFTA for Best Drama in 2003, and it was responsible for a surge of interest among Britons in joining the real MI-5, which both bemused and annoyed the organization. Influenced by John le CarrÃ© and falling distinctly on the 'stale beer flavoured' side of spy fiction, it features thoroughly-researched tradecraft gleaned from former officers and is steeped in intelligence gathering minutae concerning dead-drops, undercover operations, and suspect trailing. To maintain its conceit of anonymity, the episodes themselves have no credits, although they are available on the DVD releases and on the BBC3 "week in advance" airings.Its uncompromising nature and morally ambiguous reputation were cemented in its second episode, which featured an MI-5 officer (set up as a main character) murdered by having her head shoved into a deep-fat fryer, which prompted hundreds of viewer complaints despite the show airing post-Watershed. Despite its gritty nature, it also strives for depth and thoughtfulness by delving deep into real-life geopolitics and socioeconomics to flesh out and humanize the threats the team faces, offering up literary allusions and symbolism such as a traitor using Coriolanus to justify his betrayal, and keeping the spotlight focused on the human cost of living in the center of a tangled web of deception and intrigue.The show ran for ten series, from 2002 to 2011. Through it all, Sir Harry Pierce (Peter Firth) was the sole character to feature in all 86 episodes. Often a put-upon Reasonable Authority Figure struggling through a morass of ineffectual bureaucracy and murky political machinations and occasionally a badass former Cold Warrior who doesn't flinch at strangling an assassin with his necktie, Harry Pierce anchored the show through a revolving door of a cast including Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Nicola Walker, and Richard Armitage.Peter Firth returned to the role in 2015 for a film sequel named The Greater Good, which co-starred Kit Harrington.In the United States, partly due to the racial connotations of the word 'spook' in reference to African-Americans, it was renamed MI-5. Although the series was in development before 24, it was released after it, and has similar stylistic flourishes, like heavy use of Split Screen. (Bharat Nalluri, the director of the first two episodes, which very much set the visual tone for the series, states that he independently came up with the idea of using Split Screen in a DVD Audio Commentary. The similarities between the two shows went both ways, and 24 eventually returned the favor by borrowing a Spooks plotline featuring Alexander Siddig as a terrorist of dubious reliability, whom the main characters are forced to work with.)A Spin-Off with a Younger and Hipper cast called Spooks Code 9, aired in 2008. Poor critical reception and ratings cancelled it before a second series was made.In 2020, David Wolstencroft said that he was up for the show to have a Stealth Sequel to tackle serious issues like gray zone warfare and cyberterrorism. He also suggested that this sequel might have a more diverse cast and be less centred around London.
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Spooks / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Spooks / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: How Adam describes a rival agent who was helping rogue Mossad agents to take hostage and kill Saudi officials for this when he kills himself rather than face the team.
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Spooks / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Spooks / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: All in reference to Lisa Faulkner's frying as well as dozens of other examples. Only one of the original characters remains in the show, although some ex-characters, like Tom, are still alive and kicking (and are brought back sometimes, like Ruth and Malcolm). A quick rundown of the dead: Helen, Danny, Fiona, Colin, Zafar, Ben, Connie, Adam, Jo, Ros, Lucas, Tariq, Ruth, Erin and Callum. Most of their names (plus a few extras) are seen in the final episode on MI5's memorial wall. It's theorised that the one character who has been in it since the beginning (Harry) is still in it because the show would lose a lot of viewers if it killed him off; the series seven finale, when he gets kidnapped by Russian Alan Davies, was... controversial (even though he was in danger in several season cliffhangers before). In the end, he survives the finale, albeit even more broken than ever before, and continues working at Thames House. invoked Of course, the previous season cliffhangers which put Harry in life-threatening danger had other characters in even more danger - as in, one character appeared to drown himself in the ocean, and another was left bleeding out on the street. (both survived) That and the fact that he wasn't as central to the show then as he was by series seven... David Wolstencroft has explained in a DVD extra on why the characters are killed frequently.
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Spooks / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Spooks / int_1439161f	comment	Even though he'd been captured and tortured gruesomely by a number of rival intelligence agencies, Adam Carter was able to remain optimistic about his work until his wife was shot dead by her ex-husband, a Syrian agent, which pushed him into an Heroic BSoD that he never really got over.
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Spooks / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Spooks / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Series four, episode six. The backstory of Jimi Mistry's character was inspired by a real incident where a handful of Muslims were arrested for plotting to attack Scotland based on nothing more than an annotated map left by an Australian backpacker.
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Spooks / int_16c3b640	type	Apple of Discord
Spooks / int_16c3b640	comment	Apple of Discord: Adam tries to do this to a far-right political party in series 4.
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Spooks / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Spooks / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Several.
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Spooks / int_21535375	type	Blonde Republican Sex Kitten
Spooks / int_21535375	comment	Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: Christine Dale.
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Spooks / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Spooks / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Terrorists around every corner, corruption in every rank of the government, allied governments not giving a damn about Britain's survival, Russia openly slaughtering British agents in the street, and Anyone Can Die taken to "Everybody Dies" Ending proportions (by the end it's safe to assume that basically all the current major characters will not survive). Oh, and if Code 9 is still canon, London will be destroyed sometime after the end of the series.
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Spooks / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Spooks / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: The MI5 agents are not afraid of doing anything immoral so long as they get the results they want. Harry himself has flat-out authorized the murder of a few people simply because the victims were better off dead.
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Spooks / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Spooks / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of Spy Fiction. Absolutely everything is grounded in realism. The heroes do not spout one-liners, engage in over-the-top stunts and/or shootouts, and many of them die over the course of the series. They're just regular people doing a regular, mundane job. The series goes out of its way to show that you don't get medals or a feeling of accomplishment for stopping terrorists and serving your country; usually it ends with your life ruined, your loved ones harmed or killed, and your life replaced by someone else once you quit, get fired, or die.
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Spooks / int_240fd641	type	Long-Runner Cast Turnover
Spooks / int_240fd641	comment	Long-Runner Cast Turnover: The series went through a very large number of cast changes in its run. Only one character, Harry Pearce, appears in all ten seasons and every other position in Section D had at least three different occupants over the show's run.
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Spooks / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Spooks / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In series nine, a mysterious man blackmails Lucas North to get his hands on "Albany". At the end of the series, after Lucas's life has been torn apart and his old girlfriend is killed, Harry reveals that "Albany", a designer bioweapon, doesn't even work, and it exists solely to intrigue and deter foreign governments.
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Spooks / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Spooks / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Bugs.
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Spooks / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Spooks / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Ros, to an extent in series 8.
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Spooks / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Spooks / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In Hostage Takers parts 1 and 2 al Queda terrorists take a group of Saudi and Israeli dignitaries hostage demanding that al Queda prisoners be freed. The twist reveal that they were Mossad agents involved in a false flag operation wouldnâ€™t have been a surprise to anybody that heard them speaking unsubtitled Hebrew in one scene.
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Spooks / int_2b3937ef	type	Our Hero Is Dead
Spooks / int_2b3937ef	comment	Our Hero Is Dead: noticeable for subverting this rather harshly. There is a very good chance in this show that if it looks like the hero is dead, they probably are. And if they manage to escape a near-death experience, expect the emotional trauma to manifest in their behaviour.
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Spooks / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Spooks / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: Harry is brutally pragmatic to where can even forgive the Home Secretary putting out a hit on him and his team because it was for the greater good.
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Spooks / int_2d5b1c65	type	Expansion Pack Past
Spooks / int_2d5b1c65	comment	Expansion Pack Past: Lucas North. Series 9 reveals he's not Lucas North at all, but just some guy who stole the real North's identity after he'd been accepted into MI-5. And this secret is apparently so compromising he's willing to murder innocent people, yet he spent years in a Russian prison being tortured and yet not once betrayed his country by talking?
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Spooks / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Spooks / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Several. A group of Mossad agents take over an embassy while pretending to be Al Qaeda, and Harry's kidnappers in the first episode of season 8 pretend to be Islamic terorists to throw MI5 off the scent. In fact, the majority of the episodes of the fifth series involved these.
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Spooks / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Spooks / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: Each series changes the intro based on the new characters gradually introduced throughout the episode. Series 3 removes Tom from the opening after he leaves MI5 in the second episode, and Series 7 does a very good job of keeping Adam's death secret by showing prominent clips of him from the first episode. From the second episode onwards, the clips were removed and swapped with clips of Lucas, Adam's replacement.
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Spooks / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Spooks / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Invoked by Ros when dealing with a Saudi prince in one episode.
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Spooks / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Spooks / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: At least two season finales. One of them twists it by having the character survive the end-of-season cliffhanger, carry on a few episodes into the new season, and then have nervous breakdown and leave the series.
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Spooks / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Spooks / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": In a typically British understated fashion, this reaction is used often.
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Spooks / int_4061b99	type	Water Torture
Spooks / int_4061b99	comment	Water Torture: The introductory episode of the Nebulous Evil Organization Yalta has one of their moles in French intelligence use the Chinese water torture on Ros: she's tied to a frame in a dark room with water dripping onto her forehead as she's questioned. She resists it. Episode 3 of series 7 had Lucas North actor Richard Armitage get waterboarded for real. Kudos stated to the Daily Mail that they really did waterboard actor Creator/Richard Armitage during the scene for authenticity sake; for his part Armitage said he wasn't pretending to be screaming for them to stop.
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Spooks / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Spooks / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: It's fair that almost every episode will/has end like this or at least have a touch of it as no matter what victory is achieved by the team there some price to pay.
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Spooks / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Spooks / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Beth Bailey.
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Spooks / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Spooks / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Adam's death. One of the country's best spies has to drive a bomb-rigged car away from any danger. He first puts his seatbelt on to drive the car, and near the end, he does a useless handbrake turn which costs him precious seconds. Although the seatbelt sort of makes sense since, if you crash, you'd probably want to be injured as little as possible when the car's rigged with a bomb. Also, to be fair, his goal was preventing civilian casualties; only after the car was stationary in middle of an empty square could he look to saving his own life. He didn't know exactly how long he had left, of if the trigger would be delayed for some reason. Had he jumped out of the side while it was moving, the car might have gone careering into the side of a building and caused civilian casualties. Zaf, who gets tortured to death off-screen. A lot of fans were expecting him to show up again in Series 6 since the show rarely ever has the main characters Killed Offscreen (and whenever a hero appears to be in peril, but isn't confirmed dead, they usually pull through). So when it was revealed that Zaf had died after being tortured for days while crying for his mother, it felt pretty anticlimactic.
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Spooks / int_43ff290e	type	Revolving Door Casting
Spooks / int_43ff290e	comment	Revolving Door Casting
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Spooks / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Spooks / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: "Traitor's Gate" has undercover MI5 agent Peter Salter, who infiltrated a group of violent anarchists and wound up accepting the ideology they advocate due to his disgust with the state of the UK which grew over many years. One of the female anarchists, who he got involved with, also inspired him.
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Spooks / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Spooks / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Tom Quinn. As described by Harry, "one of the best and the brightest." Relied upon by everyone. The team leader. Until, of course his all-consuming job destroyed him emotionally and mentally, breaking down his ability to determine morality, and eventually made him a liability and he had to be decommissioned. Considering what he went through, the outcome isn't really very surprising. He reappears briefly in the finale, where it seems he's become an assassin, sent by Harry to take out the man behind Elena's plot Adam Carter, his replacement, went almost as spectacularly off the deep end after the death of his wife. And finally, Harry himself in the finale.
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Spooks / int_48e453d0	type	Episode on a Plane
Spooks / int_48e453d0	comment	Episode on a Plane: Series 6, episode 6.
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Spooks / int_491b0105	type	Sexy Sweater Girl
Spooks / int_491b0105	comment	Sexy Sweater Girl: In episode "Spiders", Zoe needs to get close to a particular target who happens to be male.
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Spooks / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Spooks / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: if you're a field agent in MI5 you do not survive long if you don't adopt a "use anything at hand" ideology. However, strong contenders for a prize in this area go to: Adam (for using a set of empty metal shelves to beat up a terrorist), Zaf (for escaping from a cupboard using an opponent's own crowbar and then using it to beat him to a (deservedly) bloody pulp), and Ros (for using a car-jack to immobilise a Mossad assassin before he could call for back-up). Ros also kills a Russian dude with a fork and threatens another one with a pen to the eyeball. In the same episode. Without significantly messing up her hair.
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Spooks / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Spooks / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In "Who Guards the Guards?," Zoe and Danny reflect on Tom's recent departure from MI-5, with Danny suggesting that he got out before the job fully destroyed him, and that he and Zoe should do the same and try to live their lives to the fullest. Matthew Macfadyen, Tom's actor, wanted to leave the show because he didn't want to be stuck in a long-running series. Keeley Hawes and David Oyelowo (Zoe and Danny, respectively) followed suit not long after.
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Spooks / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Spooks / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Oh, Jo. Poor, poor Jo.
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Spooks / int_4c1ae434	type	Compromising Memoirs
Spooks / int_4c1ae434	comment	Compromising Memoirs: "The Rose Bed Memoirs" (Series One) and "The Book" (Series Four) involve these.
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Spooks / int_4eb66c8d	type	White Male Lead
Spooks / int_4eb66c8d	comment	The Series 7 premiere introduces Lucas North, another short-haired White Male Lead with dark hair. The same episode kills off Adam Carter, the show's other dark-haired White Male Lead.
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Spooks / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
Spooks / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: Stale Beer Flavored. Intelligence work is brutal, bloody, unglamorous, and also involves a lot of staring at data.
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Spooks / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Spooks / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Ruth and Harry. Also, done in a very cute way with Ros and Adam Lawrence (the new Home Secretary at the end of Series 8).
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Spooks / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Spooks / int_53407671	comment	Halfway into Series 4, Jo, a friendly short-haired Action Survivor, is introduced. Two episodes later, Fiona, the show's major friendly short-haired female Action Survivor, is killed.
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Spooks / int_5b8c285b	type	The Conspiracy
Spooks / int_5b8c285b	comment	The Conspiracy: The second half of the show's run was dominated by season long versions of this.
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Spooks / int_5d19c2f6	type	Dying to Be Replaced
Spooks / int_5d19c2f6	comment	Dying to Be Replaced: It's practically a Running Gag for the series. In Series 3, Adam Carter, a short-haired White Male Lead in his 30s, is introduced. Tom, a short-haired White Male Lead in his 30s, leaves the show in the second episode and is replaced by Adam. Halfway into Series 3, Fiona, a short-haired woman trying to balance her job with her personal life, is introduced as Adam's husband. Zoe, the show's other short-haired woman trying to balance her job with her personal life alongside her boyfriend Will, ends up having to flee the country. The Series 3 finale introduces Zaf, a dark-skinned Token Minority. The same episode kills off Danny, who was the show's dark-skinned Token Minority. Halfway into Series 4, Jo, a friendly short-haired Action Survivor, is introduced. Two episodes later, Fiona, the show's major friendly short-haired female Action Survivor, is killed. In the Series 6 premiere, Zaf is injuried and Put on a Bus. Halfway into the same series, Ben Kaplan, a dark-skinned journalist, is introduced. The Series 6 finale reveals that Zaf was Killed Offscreen, and Ben snags his spot as the show's Token Minority for Series 7. The Series 7 premiere introduces Lucas North, another short-haired White Male Lead with dark hair. The same episode kills off Adam Carter, the show's other dark-haired White Male Lead.
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Spooks / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Spooks / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Lisa And Helen, of course.
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Spooks / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Spooks / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: either Danny or Fiona, depending on your point of view.
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Spooks / int_6269a4b3	type	Psycho Psychologist
Spooks / int_6269a4b3	comment	Psycho Psychologist: Miranda from season 2 interviews the entire staff and pits them against each other with the express purpose of finding the weakest link. Portrayed realistically in that she doesn't see anything wrong with this.
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Spooks / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Spooks / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Notably "I Spy Apocalypse" and "Diana", both based nearly entirely on the grid.
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Spooks / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Spooks / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Much of series 8 resolves around the slow reveal of global conspiracy that is unknown to everybody in MI-5 until Home Secretary Blake first tells Harry about it. Inexplicably in the beginning of series 9 it is revealed that Blake was a part of the conspiracy the entire time. This raises the obvious question of why did he even alert Harry to its existence in the first place?
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Spooks / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Spooks / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice (several)
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Spooks / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Spooks / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Sort of. Seasons range from 6-10 episodes in length, but each one is a full hour long (with no commercials) and the trope is averted in that the show ended up running for 10 seasons, making it one of the BBC's longest running dramas ever.
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Spooks / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Spooks / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: The death of Ros, though YMMV. Even though she knew it was probably hopeless she stayed with the paralysed Home Secretary, dragging him painstakingly down the corridor despite him insisting that he leave her. Brave, brave woman. Connie. Motherfucking. JAMES. "I'm not scared of bombs."
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Spooks / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
Spooks / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: The British Way Party, a Fictional Counterpart to the real-life British National Party.
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Spooks / int_681bcd81	type	Clumsy Copyright Censorship
Spooks / int_681bcd81	comment	Clumsy Copyright Censorship: One episode was temporarily pulled because visible Apple logos on the back of the computers had to be digitally airbrushed out, advertising not being allowed on The BBC.
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Spooks / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
Spooks / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: Fiona in "Syria."
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Spooks / int_6bcecad1	type	Make the Bear Angry Again
Spooks / int_6bcecad1	comment	Make the Bear Angry Again: Season 7. Season 10 offers up a variant combined with Renegade Russian.
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Spooks / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Spooks / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Lucas.
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Spooks / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Spooks / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Roger Allam as a media mogul spreading fear and panic using a faked terrorist attack to prop up a move to a fascist government, just a year after he played a news host in the aftermath of that same chain of events in V for Vendetta.
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Spooks / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Spooks / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The show ends on a particularly bittersweet version of this.
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Spooks / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
Spooks / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone. Subverted in "Nest of Angels". An Algerian agent listens politely when he's shown a number of disguised communication/bugging devices for his mission to infiltrate a radical Islamic group. The next scene shows him dumping this highly compromising equipment into a canal.
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Spooks / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Spooks / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: this may come very very close to Too Dumb to Live, but Danny sleeping with Harry's DAUGHTER was so not smart. Really really not smart.
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Spooks / int_7332c94f	type	Suicide by Sea
Spooks / int_7332c94f	comment	Suicide by Sea: Subverted with Tom in the series two finale. After being forced to shoot Harry while trying to avoid capture, Tom wades into the ocean and lets himself slip below the surface. Partway through the series three premiere, he resurfaces while trying to track down Herman Joyce to prove his innocence in the assassination of the Chief of the Defence Staff.
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Spooks / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Spooks / int_7426582d	comment	The Series 3 finale introduces Zaf, a dark-skinned Token Minority. The same episode kills off Danny, who was the show's dark-skinned Token Minority.
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Spooks / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Spooks / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Tessa, Tom, Zoe, Sam, Ruth (though she returned in the first episode of season 8) Malcolm (though he appeared series 9 and in the film), and Beth. The only one this really applies to is Sam, as at the end of Season 3 it's stated that she's upset due to Danny's death and then come Season 4 she's just never mentioned again. For the others, their reason for leaving the show is explicitly stated. At the start of Season 10, Harry observes that Beth has been fired in his absence.
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Spooks / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Spooks / int_775a1af6	comment	Tom Quinn. As described by Harry, "one of the best and the brightest." Relied upon by everyone. The team leader. Until, of course his all-consuming job destroyed him emotionally and mentally, breaking down his ability to determine morality, and eventually made him a liability and he had to be decommissioned. Considering what he went through, the outcome isn't really very surprising. He reappears briefly in the finale, where it seems he's become an assassin, sent by Harry to take out the man behind Elena's plot
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Spooks / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Spooks / int_786bf97f	comment	In each case, the actress' pregnancy forced her into maternity leave before the end of the respective season - although only one ultimately chose to PERMANENTLY exit the show.
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Spooks / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Spooks / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Lucas North, who spent many years being tortured in Russia. Even though he'd been captured and tortured gruesomely by a number of rival intelligence agencies, Adam Carter was able to remain optimistic about his work until his wife was shot dead by her ex-husband, a Syrian agent, which pushed him into an Heroic BSoD that he never really got over.
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Spooks / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Spooks / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: the US is generally portrayed as a somewhat corrupt country, with the CIA not being nice people. By series 8 and the time of the Obama administration, this changes somewhat: a new CIA station chief announces "We're the good guys now" before a duplicitious agent tosses him over a balcony to his death.
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Spooks / int_7f1c90c4	type	murder.com
Spooks / int_7f1c90c4	comment	murder.com: In Season 8 a group of eco-terrorists kidnapped a load of Corrupt Corporate Executives to host a live trail and execution on the internet if the businesses were unethical (and of course, they were). The Jury was an internet vote.
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Spooks / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Spooks / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: To the point where someone could play the Drinking Game every time one of the heroes screws something up. Even Malcolm, of all people, had the audacity to place a bomb on a plane and instruct Ros to set it off, which led to the death of a CIA agent.
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Spooks / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Spooks / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: Series 7 ended with the entire British Government riddled with Russian moles. Though the team got a dossier revealing their identities, the plotline is never mentioned again, not even with a Hand Wave that it's being handled by another department, like the Series 2 premiere. Also, the fact that the Kremlin gave the order to set off a suitcase nuke in the heart of London has zero diplomatic consequences, and the two countries are back to working together like nothing happened several episodes later.
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Spooks / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Spooks / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: And never, ever be alone in a locked room with Connie.
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Spooks / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Spooks / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Tessa and Juliet Shaw both get away scot-free and disappear from the narrative after betraying the team. You'd think Harry would be hunting them across the globe, but if he is it never comes up. What happened to Jenny, Wes' babysitter? After Series 5 (and after it looked like she and Adam would start dating), she just up and disappeared. Also, what happened to Wes? We saw him hugging Harry shortly after he came to tell him that his father died, and then he never shows up again, or even gets mentioned. The MI6 officer that Harry liaises with, Jules, disappears after the first series as his actor got a better offer.
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Spooks / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Spooks / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Lucas, after his true identity is revealed.
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Spooks / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Spooks / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: While CIA are often portrayed by American actors or have convincing American accents, there are some exceptions. Sarah Caulfield in series 8 has an utterly baffling American accent. Alton Beecher in series 9.
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Spooks / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Spooks / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Lucas.
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Spooks / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Spooks / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Given the parade of major character deaths, there are many such episodes but the final minutes of the series have quite possibly the most shocking event in the entire show: the always stoic Harry actually cries.
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Spooks / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Spooks / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Tom Quinn makes a cameo appearance in the final episode of Series 10, hired by Harry as an outside contractor.
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Spooks / int_9b7a0921	type	Split Screen
Spooks / int_9b7a0921	comment	Split Screen
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Spooks / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Spooks / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Done with introverted Playful Hacker Colin, the most benign member of the crew. It even has an edge of Shoot the Shaggy Dog when two MI6 field agents find Colin, drive him out into the woods, where he momentarily escapes in a desperate chase scene before they catch him, give him his smashed glasses, and then hang him while he is begging them not to. Everyone is pretty shocked by this development. And then of course, the expected happens. What makes it even more awful is that Colin, expecting to be shot in the head, relatively calmly told the rogue officers to get it over with. He only starts begging when they take the noose out and he realizes that his death isn't going to be quite as quick as he expected.
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Spooks / int_9d080c44	type	Ice Queen
Spooks / int_9d080c44	comment	Ice Queen: Ros watches someone get shot right in front of her whilst hooked up to a polygraph and barely any response is registered.
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Spooks / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Spooks / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The following conversation, from series seven, episode one:
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Spooks / int_a0b0840c	type	More Expendable Than You
Spooks / int_a0b0840c	comment	More Expendable Than You: An interesting variant is season 8. The British Home Secretary and Pakistani President have been left paralysed in a room rigged to explode. When Ros and Lucas show up for the rescue, Lucas is heartbreakingly forced to leave Ros and the Home Secretary behind. If the President dies there could be nuclear war, and Lucas is the only one strong enough to carry him.
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Spooks / int_a0e3acee	type	Training "Accident"
Spooks / int_a0e3acee	comment	Training "Accident"
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Spooks / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Spooks / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: In the 2015 film, the events of Code 9—which involved a nuclear explosion in Britain—are completely ignored.
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Spooks / int_a655d21c	type	Calling the Cops on the FBI
Spooks / int_a655d21c	comment	Calling the Cops on the FBI: In the fourth episode of the first season, a suspect under surveillance realises that his house is being staked out by two MI-5 agents in an unmarked car, and creates a diversion by calling the police and telling them that the occupants of the car are creating a public disturbance of an intimate nature.
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Spooks / int_a78aead3	type	Hide Your Pregnancy
Spooks / int_a78aead3	comment	Hide Your Pregnancy: Done with three different actresses in three consecutive seasons: Olga Sosnovska (Fiona) in season four Nicola Walker (Ruth) in season five Hermione Norris (Ros) in season six In each case, the actress' pregnancy forced her into maternity leave before the end of the respective season - although only one ultimately chose to PERMANENTLY exit the show.
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Spooks / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Spooks / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Final Episode of Series 7. Three words. Portable. Nuclear. Bombs.
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Spooks / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Spooks / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Harry's justification in The Greater Good for aiding a terrorist attack on MI-5 headquarters so their leader can execute a British official who betrayed him. Harry's rationale is that the government officers swore an oath to defend the British public, and that if they die so innocent civilians can live it's an acceptable loss.
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Spooks / int_b2011cae	type	Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record
Spooks / int_b2011cae	comment	Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record: Defied in episode 2x08. When Tom Quinn goes undercover as a military officer, Section D gives him a fake disciplinary charge (passing out liquor stolen from an enemy cache to his troops) to avoid arousing the suspicions of the military figure they're investigating.
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Spooks / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Spooks / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: The show had these during its run on PBS in the United States.
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Spooks / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Spooks / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: Guess which one of the people in this (incorrectly labeled) shot ends up joining the good guys. Go on, guess.
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Spooks / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
Spooks / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: In "Hostage Takers", Ros is trapped with a bunch of Saudi VIPs when a gang of gunmen claiming to be Al-Qaeda militants take hostages and start demanding the release of imprisoned members. Ros notices that one of the gunmen has a Yemeni Jewish accent and deduces that they are actually a Mossad black ops team trying to prevent the planned sale of nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia.
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Spooks / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Spooks / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Re-titled MI-5 in the USA, as in America "spook" is an archaic and now-rare, but still sensitive, ethnic slur for a black person.
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Spooks / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
Spooks / int_ba44639	comment	Zaf, who gets tortured to death off-screen. A lot of fans were expecting him to show up again in Series 6 since the show rarely ever has the main characters Killed Offscreen (and whenever a hero appears to be in peril, but isn't confirmed dead, they usually pull through). So when it was revealed that Zaf had died after being tortured for days while crying for his mother, it felt pretty anticlimactic.
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Spooks / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Spooks / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Subverted. A sniper in Series 9 Episode 5 must come pretty close. His shot is from 1.67 miles away (beating the previous record as specified by Dimitri at 1.5 miles by a sniper in Afghanistan), goes directly through a building after he takes the trouble to blow out the windows, and manages to calculate the trajectory of the bullet accurately enough to come with millimetres of his target's head (and even then, he hits him in the shoulder). Unfortunately, directly afterwards, Lucas comes up behind him and shoots him dead. However, it is soon discovered the whole thing was meant as a diversion to get everybody inside where a bomb was to explode.
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Spooks / int_beb91a53	type	Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
Spooks / int_beb91a53	comment	Mad Dictator's Beautiful Daughter: Ros's introduction more or less fits the trope, although her Heelâ€“Face Turn has less to do with falling for the hero (it takes her several episodes even to like any of her new colleagues) and more to do with realizing that her father and his cronies are selfish, murderous, and being bankrolled by the Russian mob, and she's far more badass in her own right than the category would tend to suggest.
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Spooks / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Spooks / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Connie's name is arguably a call out to Connie Sachs from the works of John le CarrÃ©. Alex White, from the series 9 finale, is definitely is a John le CarrÃ© reference, this time to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The book is explicitly namedropped by the Home Secretary later on.
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Spooks / int_c9946987	comment	Decoy Backstory: Lucas North was initially presented in series 7 as an upstanding British agent who'd spent years rotting in a Russian jail cell, suffering from torture but staying loyal to the Crown. Then, series 9 revealed he was actually just ... some guy named John Bateman who was living like a lout in North Africa when he stole the real Lucas North's documents and somehow got away with masquerading as an intelligence officer for over a decade. This revelation coincided with a plotline in the present day where somebody who knew Bateman's real identity blackmailed him into giving up state secrets. It ended with Bateman guilty of murdering innocents, his old lover dead, and him jumping off a building to kill himself after being cornered.
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Spooks / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Spooks / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The show started out very grounded in reality, focusing on the minutae of spycraft and having very plausible stakes that focused on thorny moral quandries, and of the three main characters who exited in series three only one of them suffered a brutal—yet poignant—death; the other two simply burned out and walked away. Notably, when Danny is ordered to assassinate a weapons engineer, he's extremely upset by it. But after series four, when both creator David Wolstencraft and writer Howard Brenton (an established playwright who the producers credit with elevating the show) left, the new writers started emphasizing thriller action and brutally murdering characters left and right over the stage-y drama of the first four series. That's how we arrive at such episodes as: the woman with explosive blood; the Muslim submarine bomb that Harry stops with an EMP buried under Parliament; the Russian government ordering a nuclear strike on London; the Home Secretary being part of a worldwide conspiracy who Harry poisons to death; and of course the infamous plot twist about Lucas North.
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Spooks / int_d3422f70	comment	Overt Rendezvous: In seasons one and two, the characters frequently have meetings on the benches across from the Houses of Parliament.
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Spooks / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Spooks / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Multiple characters have called out the MI5 agents on some of the "wrong" or immoral things they've done.
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Spooks / int_d45bdfee	type	Locked in a Freezer
Spooks / int_d45bdfee	comment	Locked in a Freezer: Whole episodes have taken place in a locked-down grid, most notably "I Spy Apocalypse" and "Diana".
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Spooks / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Spooks / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: at the beginning of season 5 Collingwood and his group of Well Intentioned Extremists try to rewrite the face of British democracy. They believe that Democracy Is Bad and that The Evils of Free Will and The War on Terror will destroy England, and hence they must head the new government with stringent new security measures and detention centres to house people who disagree with them. The entire scheme is so ridiculously blatant (including staging Acts Of Terror), so deeply steeped in a corrupt Propaganda Machine (backed by malicious representatives of England's Security Services), and so heavily relies on Orwellian Editing of the facts at hand that no one had prepared for it. In fact, the entire thing is so outrageous that no one believes MI5 when they first expose it.
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Spooks / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Spooks / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: This trope is fully justified, as MI5 is (or at least, it was when the show started) concerned with domestic security akin to the American FBI, and not exclusively terrorism. The first series was written prior to 9/11 (although some cursory references were inserted after the fact) when Irish splinter groups, xenophobic race-baiting, and economic rioting were the prime sources of potential turmoil. The show deliberately went out of its way to show as many different threats as possible. The IRA, White Power groups, "totally not the BNP", eco-terrorists, abortion clinic bombers, a wide variety of ex-Soviet spies/assassins/moles, corrupt banks, all were shown as legitimate threats. It even becomes a plot point in at least one episode, where they're trying to work out which of the 10 groups they had flagged launched a chemical attack on London.
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Spooks / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Spooks / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: With MI6, who the more serious-minded MI5 officers view as dilettante James Bond wannabes.
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Spooks / int_d64480d2	type	There Are No Girls on the Internet
Spooks / int_d64480d2	comment	There Are No Girls on the Internet: Subverted in episode 1 of series 9, in which an undercover al-Qaeda master hacker is traced to west London and assumed to be the father of a Muslim household. It's actually his 17-year-old daughter.
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Spooks / int_d77ecf08	type	LocationDoubling
Spooks / int_d77ecf08	comment	Location Doubling (the exterior of Thames House in Embankment is played by Freemasons' Hall in Covent Garden)
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Spooks / int_d7e68c39	type	Bulletproof Human Shield
Spooks / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: Subverted/shown correctly when Jo Portman manages to restrain a terrorist who is trying to blow himself and everyone else up. The only way to avert the explosion is for Ros to shoot the man, however (as both Jo and Ros realise) the bullet will go straight through him and kill Jo as well; which is what happens.
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Spooks / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Spooks / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: This show makes frequent uses of these for dramatic effect.
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Spooks / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Spooks / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Harry and the Home Secretary (most of the time).
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Spooks / int_def127cc	type	Leave Behind a Pistol
Spooks / int_def127cc	comment	Leave Behind a Pistol: series 5, a failed villain asks for his belt not to be removed when he gets arrested. Harry complies.
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Spooks / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
Spooks / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: Harry, Harry, HARRY. Strangling a Russian hitman half his age with his tie, interrogation technique that would put Revolver Ocelot to shame, outthinking Mossad, the CIA, the FSB and sometimes his own Government (sometimes all at the same time), threatening to shoot (and actually shooting) people who have threatened his Grid team...the list goes on.
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Spooks / int_e3bdea5c	type	Artistic License â€“ Politics
Spooks / int_e3bdea5c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Politics: Alan Taylor, the Cabinet Secretary, can write bills, control access to the Prime Minister by members of his own Cabinet, and explicitly describes himself as a politician. In fact, the role is that of a civil servant.
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Spooks / int_e40f41d4	type	Hollywood Spelling
Spooks / int_e40f41d4	comment	Hollywood Spelling: In the series four premiere, Adam is told over his earpiece to disarm a bomb using the codeword "Kronos", which has many transliterations from the Greek such as "Chronos", "Chronus", "Khronos", etc. In the original hour-long broadcast, he asks how it's spelled, but in the Edited for Syndication cut on Netflix (which is where most Americans will watch it) he intuitively spells it the right way, despite "Kronos" being far from the most common spelling.
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Spooks / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Spooks / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Twice, team members with UST get together only to have one of them have to fake their death and leave. With Harry and Ruth, Ruth gets framed for treason; the team fakes her death and she goes into hiding. Adam and Ros end up the same way.
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Spooks / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Spooks / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: At the end of the 'Virus' Arc, Zaf, infected with the titular deadly virus, grabs a grenade from one of his captors and pulls the pin, threatening to let it detonate unless they let Adam go. Adam is released and Zaf is last seen being driven away. Somehow, he manages to survive both the grenade and the virus only to be tortured to death many months later.
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Spooks / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Spooks / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Ros takes the phrase "put the squeeze on him" VERY literally.
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Spooks / int_eb69d64	type	Edited for Syndication
Spooks / int_eb69d64	comment	Edited for Syndication: Episodes streamed on Netflix in the United States can have as much as ten minutes per episode removed.
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Spooks / int_ec90f86f	type	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists
Spooks / int_ec90f86f	comment	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: The group in "Traitor's Gate" plan to assassinate President George W. Bush while he's visiting Britain.
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Spooks / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Spooks / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer Dammit, Ruth! Harry is trying so hard!
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Spooks / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
Spooks / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: Usually averted, but not always. While often times real places are used there are still occasional instances of Qurac, CountryStan, and CommieLand.
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Spooks / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Spooks / int_ef0a5ce	comment	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / Mugging the Monster: far too many politicians try to use Mossad for their own ends, usually via manipulation and mis-direction One very highly placed lawyer managed to manipulate them into taking out an MI5 op team. Let's just say that he did not live long.
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Spooks / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Spooks / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Fiona, to Adam.
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Spooks / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Spooks / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Connie, who redeems herself with a Heroic Sacrifice to stop London being destroyed. However, this is then averted at the end of series 10, when a memorial garden with the names of the operatives KIA across the series is shown. Connie's name is not there, and neither is Lucas North's.
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Spooks / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Spooks / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Frequently, but Angela Wells's masterplan in "Diana" sort of sticks in the memory: holding the entire Grid hostage overnight with a fake bomb, solely for the purpose of getting access to Buckingham Palace security information, so that a lockdown would be ordered and the Royal Family would be rushed to a secure location which, after getting herself employed there as an electrician seven months earlier, she'd already rigged with plastic explosive INSIDE THE ELECTRICAL WIRING. And then there's a sniper rifle.
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Spooks / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Spooks / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Jo, in particular, seems to get roughed up a lot.
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Spooks / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Spooks / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Many. Generally, after a character leaves they get one of these. At times the new character is introduced before there's been a cast change, not-so subtly hinting that a certain established character might be in trouble. One example is Lucas, the handsome and charismatic former section chief returning from an eight-year stint in a Russian prison. Guess what happens to handsome and charismatic section chief Adam in the very same episode.
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Spooks / int_f6d623ca	type	Eco-Terrorist
Spooks / int_f6d623ca	comment	Eco-Terrorist: A season 8 episode has a group of eco-terrorists who kidnap what they consider to be a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives for an on-line trial by Internet viewers, with lives on the line.
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Spooks / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
Spooks / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Adam. The man sacrifices his own life to drive a car bomb away from a crowd of people, only to die by himself before he has time to run away from the car. Ben, who bleeds to death in a lonely computer room after his throat was lacerated by Connie. Subverted with Tariq. After he is poisoned and gets out of the taxi he's riding, he collapses to the ground in the middle of nowhere, seconds away from death. Suddenly, Calum shows up, and then he dies.
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Spooks / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Ros, briefly, in 6.08. Unusual in that she didn't know the nerve toxin she was injected with wasn't going to be fatal...
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Spooks / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Spooks / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "KGB." "FSB."
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Spooks / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Spooks / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: In addition to several Villians of the Week from the earlier series (most memorably, Collingwood and his cohorts from "Gas and Oil"), at least two season arcs from the later years (six and eight) are built around massive conspiracies consisting of such individuals.
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Spooks / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
Spooks / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Connie has elements of the type. Turns poignantly hilarious in her last episode when she demands a bottle of gin as part of her bomb-disarming kit.
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Spooks / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Spooks / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Ruth and Harry.
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Spooks / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: Ros. This can manifest in Hidden Depths as when you're first introduced to her, she looks and acts too refined and upper class to have any of the badass fighting skills that the rest of MI5 are trained in. A couple of beaten-up Mossad agents later and you're immediately dissuaded from that idea.
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Spooks / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Spooks / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In the first half of its run, the show took great pains to ground its stories and its villains in a very messy real world geopolitical context, as opposed to contemporary American thriller shows, which rarely went beyond "They're Islamic extremists from Qurac" by way of motivation. This lessened as the show went on, however.
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Spooks	hasFeature	Numbers Stations / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Oddly Small Organization / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Omniscient Database / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	One-Hit Polykill / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Over-the-Top Secret / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Overt Rendezvous / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Product Displacement / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Renegade Russian / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Revolving Door Casting / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Right Hand Versus Left Hand / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Right-Handed Left-Handed Guns / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Rogue Soldier / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Sexy Sweater Girl / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Shoe Phone / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Sinister Surveillance / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Slashed Throat / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Smokescreen Crime / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Spy's Suspicious Spouse / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Suicide by Sea / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Danza / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Irish Mob / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Spook / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Spymaster / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	The Tooth Hurts / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Title In / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Training "Accident" / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Treacherous Advisor / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Undercover as Lovers / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Unflinching Walk / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Velvet Revolution / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	War Is Hell / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Water Torture / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_3f13a30c
Spooks	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_3f13a30c
spooks	sameAs	Spooks

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