Spooks series six: MI5, not 9 to 5
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Episode synopses
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Episode one
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On the verge of an historic peace deal with Iran, the Grid receives intelligence that Mehan Asnik, a member of Iranian intelligence who MI5 suspect is a terrorist, is preparing to carry out an attack on London.
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The team organises an undercover operation to assassinate Asnik in Tehran, hoping to make their bomb look like a terrorist attack. The plan goes tragically wrong when a civilian train pulls alongside the target. Harry calls to abort, but the 91Èȱ¬ Secretary insists on taking out Asnik and the bomb is detonated.
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Despite a sizeable death toll, Asnik survives and contacts Adam with an offer – he wants to defect and is prepared to provide valuable intelligence. Back in the UK with Asnik in their possession, Adam and Zaf are intercepted by armed mercenaries who kidnap Asnik and Zaf.
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It soon transpires that Asnik was carrying a vial of a lethal virus which was released when the bomb exploded. Someone known only as 'Copenhagen' had fed MI5 false intelligence so that they would target Asnik and release this virus in Tehran. Now Asnik, Zaf and their kidnappers have been exposed and have just hours to live unless they receive a vaccine.
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Episode two
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With Britain on the brink of a plague, the team must track down and quarantine anyone infected – starting with the hospital where Asnik was treated.
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Knowing that the virus must originally have been created by a country with a bio-weapons programme, the team deduce that whoever it was will also have a vaccine. Harry orders the interrogation of key spies from likely nations who may have the vaccine.
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But drastic means are required to make the spies talk. They are forcibly anaesthetised and smuggled to a secret bunker run by Connie James, an unflappable former MI5 operative, where they are each exposed to the virus – if one of them knows of a vaccine they will surely say so now.
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Yves Cuvier, the French spy, cannot provide the vaccine but instead offers up intelligence on Zaf's whereabouts in exchange for his life.
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Edik Kuznetzov, the Russian agent, reveals that Russia has the vaccine and that, unbeknownst to MI5, the British government is already in negotiations for it but won't pay what the Russians want.
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Information about future episodes will be published in 91Èȱ¬ Television Programme Information
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