Spooks

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Seasons

10

Episodes aired

86

Latest aired

S10E06

Total runtime

1d 12h

Timeline when each season aired

1. Season 1 May 2002 – June 2002 6 episodes
2. Season 2 June 2003 – August 2003 10 episodes
3. Season 3 October 2004 – December 2004 10 episodes
4. Season 4 September 2005 – November 2005 10 episodes
5. Season 5 September 2006 – November 2006 10 episodes
6. Season 6 October 2007 – December 2007 10 episodes
7. Season 7 October 2008 – December 2008 8 episodes
8. Season 8 November 2009 – December 2009 8 episodes
9. Season 9 September 2010 – November 2010 8 episodes
10. Season 10 September 2011 – October 2011 6 episodes

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  S10E01 Garden Leave

  September 18 find the promo

  Show synopsis

  The team has been left shocked by Lucas's betrayal, and with Harry Pearce on gardening leave, Section D has a new leader called Erin Watts. She has brought Calum Reed with her into the team. Harry Pearce manages to win his MI5 employment tribunal and is soon back on the Grid in the thick of the action. Secrets end up being discovered after Max Witt, a retired spy and Harry's colleague in Berlin during the Cold War, is discovered to have been murdered.

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  S10E02 Stolen Laptop

  September 25 find the promo

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  Calum is attacked by a gang of street muggers during a routine intelligence-sharing exercise with MI6. The laptop he was carrying is stolen, and contains highly-classified information on MI5's undercover assets. Their names are soon plastered all over the internet, making MI5 look incompetent and putting those top assets' lives in danger.

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  S10E03 Dirty Bomb

  October 2 find the promo

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  MI5 receives a red flash: radioactive material has been detected at an airport. They have intelligence that a highly dangerous anarchist with a penchant for dirty bombs has secretly entered the country. They enlist Dimitri to honeytrap the anarchist's only known contact, his sister Natalie. It is a morally tough operation for Dimitri, but through Natalie he gets close to the dirty-bomber. Dimitri's personal connection to them both proves invaluable in the tense and potentially lethal endgame.

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  S10E04 Suicide Bomber

  October 9 find the promo

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  Two former inmates are released from jail. One is an undercover MI5 asset and the other is an impressionable wannabe suicide bomber who has been radicalised in prison. They are set to launch an attack somewhere in London, but our team must time it right and step in at the eleventh hour to prevent a massive loss of life.

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  S10E05 Kidnap

  October 16 find the promo

  Show synopsis

  There is new evidence of CIA agent Jim Coaver's involvement in some recent attacks on MI5. Harry ends up kidnapping his former Cold War colleague but soon ends up realising that he's been looking in the wrong place and Jim could be innocent. Harry, with Ruth's help attempt to steal Coaver's laptop from under the noses of the Americans at the US embassy.

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  S10E06 Deportation

  October 23 find the promo

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  Harry finds himself facing deportation to America following the death of CIA agent Jim Coaver. After some new evidence comes to light about the recent attacks on the United Kingdom and the government's proposed alliance with Russia, Ruth and her former colleagues in Section D free Harry from CIA custody. Harry's suspicions see him going to another of his former Cold War adversaries.