Spooks: Series 1
Spooks season 1 follows the work of MI5’s elite counter‑intelligence team as they protect the United Kingdom from a range of threats. The agents confront organised crime, espionage and terrorist plots while navigating internal power struggles and personal deceptions. Key incidents in the opening season include a car bomb detonated in Liverpool, a siege at the Turkish embassy, and the murder of a double agent, all of
Season overview
Spooks season 1 follows the work of MI5’s elite counter‑intelligence team as they protect the United Kingdom from a range of threats. The agents confront organised crime, espionage and terrorist plots while navigating internal power struggles and personal deceptions. Key incidents in the opening season include a car bomb detonated in Liverpool, a siege at the Turkish embassy, and the murder of a double agent, all of which test the officers’ ability to balance national security with the need to conceal their true identities from friends and family. The series presents the pressures of operating within the highly secure Thames House headquarters of the British Security Service, highlighting the tension between safety and terror. Spooks premiered on BBC One on 13 May 2002 and ran for ten seasons, concluding on 23 October 2011. The first season establishes the series’ tone of tense, fast‑paced drama centred on the challenges faced by MI5 officers as they
Episodes
Thou Shalt Not Kill
May 13, 2002 · 50 min
An abortion doctor is executed by an American pro-life terrorist; Mary Kane. An informant reveals that this is just the tip of the iceberg as Mary has 20 more bombs and plans on us
Looking After Our Own
May 20, 2002 · 52 min
Tom and Helen must go undercover and befriend the wife of a suspected hardcore racist in order to prevent a racewar. Meanwhile Zoe and Tessa learn that a boatload of refugees is du
One Last Dance
May 27, 2002 · 51 min
Whilst on a routine check of the bugs in the Turkish Embassy, Zoe and all the other people in the embassy are taken hostage by terrorists who wish to negotiate the release of their
Traitor's Gate
Jun 4, 2002 · 52 min
MI5's best officer, Peter Salter, seems to be joining the enemy. President Bush is scheduled to visit and it seems as though Salter is trying to stop the peace, is this all part of
The Rose Bed Memoirs
Jun 10, 2002 · 51 min
Disgraced MP Hampton Wilder has written memoirs with the power to destroy the government, what's more an old KGB agent is trying to smuggle illegal arms into and out of the country
The Lesser of Two Evils
Jun 17, 2002 · 51 min
Patrick McCann, an IRA leader claims to have information about a nuclear attack on the UK mainland, can MI5 trust the IRA enough to give them what they want in return; 36 hours fre