The new series seems to have adopted a '24' style thread in that each episode is no longer a self-contained adventure but rather a continuation of the previous episode. This is a good idea because the self-contained episodes were becoming rather dreary.
A cargo plane crashes and unleashes deadly substances near a US airbase but all is not what it seems.
Indeed it seems to be covering up the presence of a secret spy plane 'Aurora' (which apparently does exist in real life) the Americans are running illegally from the airbase in the UK. The MOD are in on the act treacherously selling out their own spooks in order to maintain a seat at the top table politically and militarily.
But MI5 cannot penetrate the upper layers of the MOD to find out what's going on.
So Jo is called upon to blackmail an ex-boyfriend in the MOD hierarchy.
She only recently became a spook from being some kind of aspiring journo or writer or something.
She's obviously been busy dropping her knickers left, right and centre in her couple of years in spook-land amassing valuable contacts in the industry. You go girl
Malcolm thinks he's infected by the cargo plane crash substances - which don't exist - and joins the ever-earnest Adam in breaking into a airbase to find out what's going on. They seem to wander round with impunity because everyone else seems to busy doing their 'secret stuff'. Malcolm thinks he's dying and this makes him more courageous than usual so Adam continues to let him think this until they escape from the base.
It seems that Copenhagen - who ordered the Iranian double agent to move the noxious substance around - is actually controlled by the Americans.
They let the British bomb the train knowing the spillage would embarrass and expose the Iranian biological weapons programme.
Not quite sure why they want to hang on to Zaff or why the spy plane was shadowing/hiding behind Zaff's plane back to the UK.
Also, Ros is abducted by a bunch of independent spooks representing a shadowy group of politicos, technocrats and business people who want to oversee the welfare of the world. They seem something like the Bilderberg Group. They want to prevent a neo-con driven American foreign policy from turning the world into a zone of cultural conflict.
Ros passes their rather mild torture test (some water is dripped on her forehead and her makeup is confiscated) and polygraph test and she is invited to join them.
She is not sure but in the last reel you see her making contact with them.
Adam continues to seduce the Iranian ambassador's wife.
She accuses him of sleeping with his 'assets' routinely.
Adam places his mitts firmly on her 'assets' and murmurs something about 'don't you know me by now' before kissing her in a manly manner.
The camera goes soft focus suggesting that Iranian Ambassador's wife is about to break religious etiquette and munch a 'sausage roll'.
I find the whole ethos of BBC Spooks rather strange.
It's written to portray the MI5guys as slightly left-of-centre when in reality many memoirs and insider stories seem to suggest they are a mostly a bunch of right-wing 'fascists'.
I use the term 'fascist' in a loose sense here, more as an insult than an accurate description of someone's political stance. Other 'fascists', in my book, include Tony Blair, Jack Straw and John Reid.
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The first image we saw in the new series was Adam Carter's bare bottom, getting out of bed after having 'nailed' the only character more masculine than his own, i.e. Ros (Ross..?). That, along with Jo's lesbian makeover, seems to suggest that the Spooks programme-makers are even more liberally minded than your blog suggests.
Look out for the next episode where Malcolm hacks into Harry's private channel and Harry mercilessly probes the Home Secretary in a dark passageway.
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