Jools Siviter
Date of Birth: Unknown
First episode: Series 1, Episode 4 Last episode: Series 1, Episode 8 Job: Section Head, MI6 Status: Unknown Portrayed by: Hugh Laurie Jools Siviter is a department head at MI-6. His exact position in MI6 is unclear, but the fact that he deals with Harry Pearce as an ostensible equal implies that he is a Section Head. He has alluded to serving in Russia and France in the past. Although his service and MI5 are supposed to work together, Siviter is an antagonist, competing with Harry Pearce for resources, acclaim and occasionally working at cross purposes. Siviter generally confirms to the stereotype of a condescending upper class English patrician, who barely bothers to disguise his contempt for those he perceives to be of lower class, inferior intellect or membership in what he calls the 'little sister' organisation, MI5. |
Despite insisting that MI5 rigidly observe the delineation of responsibility that stipulates MI6 has control over all operations outside the UK, he has no compunction about breaking it himself and running assets inside the UK, including running surveillance on MI5 agents and framing a cabinet minister.
Siviter is a fan of opera, specifically Wagner. He states that he enjoys 'buggering skinheads', indicating that he may be homosexual, but it is possible that this was simply an attempt to shock a woman annoyed at him for texting in a theatre.
He doesn’t appear after the first series but he is mentioned as a senior MI6 operative in a historical operation in the series four finale. A comment in the Spooks book, ‘Harry’s Diary’ alludes that he went to America. Harry writes,
Siviter is a fan of opera, specifically Wagner. He states that he enjoys 'buggering skinheads', indicating that he may be homosexual, but it is possible that this was simply an attempt to shock a woman annoyed at him for texting in a theatre.
He doesn’t appear after the first series but he is mentioned as a senior MI6 operative in a historical operation in the series four finale. A comment in the Spooks book, ‘Harry’s Diary’ alludes that he went to America. Harry writes,
Uplifting news in this dark times: Jools Siviter has just been expelled from Washington for ‘committing an ‘obscene public act’ during a Wagner opera. Rumour has it that his next posting will be Baghdad. I hope he enjoys it.