Spooks - Season 1 - Eps 6: The Lesser of Two Evils
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 free of surveillance, free to do whatever they wish?
About Spooks
Title: Spooks
First Air Date: 2002-05-13
Last Air Date: 2011-10-23
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.7/10 (from 135 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 10
Total Episodes: 86
Network: BBC One
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
Production Companies: BBC, Kudos
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Peter Firth
Harry Pearce
Nicola Walker
Ruth Evershed
Max Brown
Dimitri Levendis
Lara Pulver
Erin Watts
William Hope
Jim Coaver
Alex Lanipekun
Ben Kaplan
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Calum Reed
Tom Weston-Jones
Sasha Gavrik
Alice Krige
Elena Gavrik
Jonathan Hyde
Ilya Gavrik