Series 4
The fourth series of Spooks originally aired on BBC Once from 12 September 2005 to 10 November 2005. It comprised 10 episodes.
Episode 1: The Special (Part 1)
Air date: 12th September 2005
Synopsis: A bomb detonates during Danny's funeral calling Section D away. They learn that an American-based terrorist group, Shining Dawn, who believe the human race ought to be culled, are responsible. Shining Dawn demand the release of their leader from British custody, or they will detonate a bomb in public places every 10 hours. Ruth visits a Shining Dawn sympathiser, Professor Curtis, who is also targeted, while Adam and Zaf follow leads and discover there is a mole in MI5. They do eventually find the next bomb in Marylebone Station and defuse it. Adam tracks down a witness from the station, Natasha Scott. The episode ends on a cliff-hanger as Zaf is captured by Shining Dawn members.
Episode 2: The Special (Part 2)
Air date: 13th September 2005
Synopsis: Adam locates and frees Zaf and they learn the location of the next bomb, which they defuse. However, Shining Dawn set the next bomb so it can only be deactivated with a code. Harry’s old flame, Juliet Shaw returns and he becomes suspicious of her; thinking she may be the mole, especially when she threatens to expose events from his past. The mole is actually revealed as American liaison to MI5, Richard Boyd. He is soon captured, which leads to the capture of the bomb maker. Near the end, they learn the next bomb is in a hospital. Adam discovers it and finds Natasha Boyd strapped to it. After evacuating the hospital and against Harry’s orders, Adam remains behind with Natasha. Professor Curtis manages to get the code from the bomb maker and Adam disarms the bomb with seconds to spare. At the end of the episode it is revealed that the Prime Minister wants to make Juliet Shaw the new National Security Coordinator.
Episode 3: Divided They Fall
Air date: 22nd September 2005
Synopsis: Far right political party The British Way, who are related to a number of attacks against the ethnic minority, worries the government when they declare power. Section D is tasked in bring down the party from the inside. Adam poses as a convict to deal with party leader James Moran, while Harry and Fiona deal with William Sampson, an MP who has resigned to force a by-election on behalf of the British Way. They record a meeting with Sampson in which he states he'll replace Moran and his cronies when they win the election; Ruth goes undercover as Adam’s cousin and provides Moran with the recording. The plan is successful, but Moran becomes aware of Adam's deception, and has him and Ruth captured and hunted. Ruth manages to rescue them by hitting Moran over the head with a rather large tree branch.
Episode 4: Road Trip
Air date: 29th September 2005
Synopsis: Adam goes undercover as a Circassian from Aleppo, Syria in a people-smuggling operation from Istanbul, Turkey to London in an attempt to turn the leader of a terrorist sleeper cell, Mohammed Yazdi and stop a planned terrorist attack against the Houses of Parliament. He is able to turn Yazdi, where he implicates a Middle-Eastern Prince, Hakim. However, Juliet Shaw pressures Harry to allow Yazdi and the Middle Eastern Prince to be in the same room together. Yazdi assassinates the prince, which was revealed to be the plan all along. Juliet has played right into the assassins hands.
Episode 5: The Book
Air date: 6th October 2005
Synopsis: Ruth’s ex-boyfriend, journalist Gary Hicks, witnesses the murder of Clive McTaggart, a high-ranking retired intelligence officer and friend of Harry's who was about to publish his memoirs, containing government secrets. Hicks approaches Ruth for help inadvertently putting her in danger. While MI5 investigate and Hicks attempts to publish the story, a group of people from the government are sent to kill him. Meanwhile, Joanna Portman, who is trying to get a job with Hicks, follows the investigation. Her skills impress Adam, she makes major break in the case and saves Ruth and Zaf’s lives, so he recruits her. Harry arrives home to find that McTaggart had posted him a copy of his book before he was murdered.
Episode 6: The Innocent
Air date: 13th October 2005
Synopsis: An Algerian army deserter and terror suspect, Nazim Malik is freed after two years in a British prison. Although he is found to be innocent, MI5 follow his activities, where they discover that he is being forced to conduct an assassination of an Algerian banker on British soil in order to guarantee the safety of his family. The team save his family, who were held hostage, just before Malik can carry out the assassination and surrenders. In the end, he and his family have been granted asylum in Ireland.
Episode 7: Syria
Air date: 20th October 2005
Synopsis: Fiona takes on a case when the Syrian Foreign Minister, Riyad Barzali, contacts MI5 for help, even though his own secret service will kill him if he is to talk with the British. The reasoning for Fiona to take the case is because she learned that Farook Sukkarieh, her first husband who was thought to have been hanged for treason, actually survived. Farook has Barzali killed, and captures Fiona to take back to Syria. Adam and the team desperately try to find Fiona. Adam eventually finds her at a small airport, where Fiona is able to wound Farook. However, he is able to get of a shot before she can get away, hitting Fiona in the back. She dies in Adams arms.
Episode 8: The Russian
Air date: 27th October 2005
Synopsis: After the death of his wife, Fiona, Adam is sent off to TRING whilst the team investigate a Russian billionaire Oleg Korsakov, who plans to buy the National Health Service, and then dismantle it. Eventually with Ruth’s help, Adam convinces Harry to be let back in. They task Zaf to work with Hugo Ross, who was a double agent for the Russians during the Cold War. MI5 is able to work around Oleg's counter-surveillance measures and expose his plans. In the end, Adam comes to terms with his Fiona’s death and finally tells her parents and Wes about it.
Episode 9: The Sting
Air date: 3rd November 2005
Synopsis: Juliet suspends Harry after he stops the CIA from extraditing a British citizen, a terrorist who is later believed to have killed two MI5 officers. Harry is put under surveillance and the rest of the team work to stop the terrorist. The team are told not to stay away from Harry, but Adam has contact with him and Ruth sends him food parcels and meets him on the top deck of a bus, where they share a ‘moment’. Eventually, Adam and Jo discover that Nick Pollard, an American with counter surveillance skills may actually be involved. In fact, he arranges for the released terrorist to take part in an attack, which is revealed to be a surface-to-air missile against a flight heading for Heathrow, in order to push the UK and US into going to war against Iran. The attack is stopped and Pollard is arrested. Harry is reinstated and Ruth is waiting for him on the Grid when he returns.
Episode 10: Diana
Air date: 10th November 2005
Synopsis: Ruth gets home one evening to discover her dead step-brother's girlfriend and former MI5 agent, Angela Wells, sitting in her living room. Ruth’s step-brother, Peter, had killed himself a year earlier after being fired from the Royal Protection Squad. Angela has a document that implicates Harry in a security service conspiracy to kill Diana, Princess of Wales. Ruth refuses to give Angela the helps she wants and she leaves. The next day she comes to the Grid and holds everyone hostage, demanding the division find incontrovertible proof of the plot or she'd detonate a bomb. Harry admits he was on a committee planning for worst case scenarios, and they inadvertently predicted Princess Diana's death perfectly. It was nothing more sinister than that. Ruth tells Angela the truth about the committee but then lies about her relationship with her step-brother to talk her down. However, she later plans to attack the Royal family, who are evacuated to a high security bunker, which Angela has rigged with a bomb. Adam defuses it, but upon returning to Thames House, Angela is waiting and fires her sniper rifle, gravely wounding Adam, and is prepared to shoot Harry.
Episode 1: The Special (Part 1)
Air date: 12th September 2005
Synopsis: A bomb detonates during Danny's funeral calling Section D away. They learn that an American-based terrorist group, Shining Dawn, who believe the human race ought to be culled, are responsible. Shining Dawn demand the release of their leader from British custody, or they will detonate a bomb in public places every 10 hours. Ruth visits a Shining Dawn sympathiser, Professor Curtis, who is also targeted, while Adam and Zaf follow leads and discover there is a mole in MI5. They do eventually find the next bomb in Marylebone Station and defuse it. Adam tracks down a witness from the station, Natasha Scott. The episode ends on a cliff-hanger as Zaf is captured by Shining Dawn members.
Episode 2: The Special (Part 2)
Air date: 13th September 2005
Synopsis: Adam locates and frees Zaf and they learn the location of the next bomb, which they defuse. However, Shining Dawn set the next bomb so it can only be deactivated with a code. Harry’s old flame, Juliet Shaw returns and he becomes suspicious of her; thinking she may be the mole, especially when she threatens to expose events from his past. The mole is actually revealed as American liaison to MI5, Richard Boyd. He is soon captured, which leads to the capture of the bomb maker. Near the end, they learn the next bomb is in a hospital. Adam discovers it and finds Natasha Boyd strapped to it. After evacuating the hospital and against Harry’s orders, Adam remains behind with Natasha. Professor Curtis manages to get the code from the bomb maker and Adam disarms the bomb with seconds to spare. At the end of the episode it is revealed that the Prime Minister wants to make Juliet Shaw the new National Security Coordinator.
Episode 3: Divided They Fall
Air date: 22nd September 2005
Synopsis: Far right political party The British Way, who are related to a number of attacks against the ethnic minority, worries the government when they declare power. Section D is tasked in bring down the party from the inside. Adam poses as a convict to deal with party leader James Moran, while Harry and Fiona deal with William Sampson, an MP who has resigned to force a by-election on behalf of the British Way. They record a meeting with Sampson in which he states he'll replace Moran and his cronies when they win the election; Ruth goes undercover as Adam’s cousin and provides Moran with the recording. The plan is successful, but Moran becomes aware of Adam's deception, and has him and Ruth captured and hunted. Ruth manages to rescue them by hitting Moran over the head with a rather large tree branch.
Episode 4: Road Trip
Air date: 29th September 2005
Synopsis: Adam goes undercover as a Circassian from Aleppo, Syria in a people-smuggling operation from Istanbul, Turkey to London in an attempt to turn the leader of a terrorist sleeper cell, Mohammed Yazdi and stop a planned terrorist attack against the Houses of Parliament. He is able to turn Yazdi, where he implicates a Middle-Eastern Prince, Hakim. However, Juliet Shaw pressures Harry to allow Yazdi and the Middle Eastern Prince to be in the same room together. Yazdi assassinates the prince, which was revealed to be the plan all along. Juliet has played right into the assassins hands.
Episode 5: The Book
Air date: 6th October 2005
Synopsis: Ruth’s ex-boyfriend, journalist Gary Hicks, witnesses the murder of Clive McTaggart, a high-ranking retired intelligence officer and friend of Harry's who was about to publish his memoirs, containing government secrets. Hicks approaches Ruth for help inadvertently putting her in danger. While MI5 investigate and Hicks attempts to publish the story, a group of people from the government are sent to kill him. Meanwhile, Joanna Portman, who is trying to get a job with Hicks, follows the investigation. Her skills impress Adam, she makes major break in the case and saves Ruth and Zaf’s lives, so he recruits her. Harry arrives home to find that McTaggart had posted him a copy of his book before he was murdered.
Episode 6: The Innocent
Air date: 13th October 2005
Synopsis: An Algerian army deserter and terror suspect, Nazim Malik is freed after two years in a British prison. Although he is found to be innocent, MI5 follow his activities, where they discover that he is being forced to conduct an assassination of an Algerian banker on British soil in order to guarantee the safety of his family. The team save his family, who were held hostage, just before Malik can carry out the assassination and surrenders. In the end, he and his family have been granted asylum in Ireland.
Episode 7: Syria
Air date: 20th October 2005
Synopsis: Fiona takes on a case when the Syrian Foreign Minister, Riyad Barzali, contacts MI5 for help, even though his own secret service will kill him if he is to talk with the British. The reasoning for Fiona to take the case is because she learned that Farook Sukkarieh, her first husband who was thought to have been hanged for treason, actually survived. Farook has Barzali killed, and captures Fiona to take back to Syria. Adam and the team desperately try to find Fiona. Adam eventually finds her at a small airport, where Fiona is able to wound Farook. However, he is able to get of a shot before she can get away, hitting Fiona in the back. She dies in Adams arms.
Episode 8: The Russian
Air date: 27th October 2005
Synopsis: After the death of his wife, Fiona, Adam is sent off to TRING whilst the team investigate a Russian billionaire Oleg Korsakov, who plans to buy the National Health Service, and then dismantle it. Eventually with Ruth’s help, Adam convinces Harry to be let back in. They task Zaf to work with Hugo Ross, who was a double agent for the Russians during the Cold War. MI5 is able to work around Oleg's counter-surveillance measures and expose his plans. In the end, Adam comes to terms with his Fiona’s death and finally tells her parents and Wes about it.
Episode 9: The Sting
Air date: 3rd November 2005
Synopsis: Juliet suspends Harry after he stops the CIA from extraditing a British citizen, a terrorist who is later believed to have killed two MI5 officers. Harry is put under surveillance and the rest of the team work to stop the terrorist. The team are told not to stay away from Harry, but Adam has contact with him and Ruth sends him food parcels and meets him on the top deck of a bus, where they share a ‘moment’. Eventually, Adam and Jo discover that Nick Pollard, an American with counter surveillance skills may actually be involved. In fact, he arranges for the released terrorist to take part in an attack, which is revealed to be a surface-to-air missile against a flight heading for Heathrow, in order to push the UK and US into going to war against Iran. The attack is stopped and Pollard is arrested. Harry is reinstated and Ruth is waiting for him on the Grid when he returns.
Episode 10: Diana
Air date: 10th November 2005
Synopsis: Ruth gets home one evening to discover her dead step-brother's girlfriend and former MI5 agent, Angela Wells, sitting in her living room. Ruth’s step-brother, Peter, had killed himself a year earlier after being fired from the Royal Protection Squad. Angela has a document that implicates Harry in a security service conspiracy to kill Diana, Princess of Wales. Ruth refuses to give Angela the helps she wants and she leaves. The next day she comes to the Grid and holds everyone hostage, demanding the division find incontrovertible proof of the plot or she'd detonate a bomb. Harry admits he was on a committee planning for worst case scenarios, and they inadvertently predicted Princess Diana's death perfectly. It was nothing more sinister than that. Ruth tells Angela the truth about the committee but then lies about her relationship with her step-brother to talk her down. However, she later plans to attack the Royal family, who are evacuated to a high security bunker, which Angela has rigged with a bomb. Adam defuses it, but upon returning to Thames House, Angela is waiting and fires her sniper rifle, gravely wounding Adam, and is prepared to shoot Harry.