Spooks Series 9 [DVD]

For me, exemplary acting from Nicola Walker, as always.3-disc set: Approximate Run time: 8 hoursRelease date: 28 Feb. 2011MAIN CHARACTERS:~ RICHARD ARMITAGE (LUCAS NORTH)~ PETER FIRTH (SIR HARRY PEARCE)~ SHAZAD LATIF (TARIQ MASOOD)~ SOPHIA MYLES (BETH BAILEY)~ NICOLA WALKER (RUTH EVERSHED)SPECIAL FEATURES:~ THE COST OF BEING A SPY~ THE DOWNFALL OF 'LUCAS NORTH'~ EPISODE COMMENTARYEPISODE 1: The team is shaken following Ros’s funeral, but a boat rigged with explosives by Somali terrorists focuses the minds and reveals a new ally. Meanwhile, Lucas’s past comes back to haunt him and unveil some dark truths.EPISODE 2: The Grid’s newest recruit, Beth, must face her mercenary past during an undercover mission involving Britain’s top oil dealers. At the same time, Harry must step to the fore to prevent a vicious chemical attack in Nigeria and Lucas is further taunted by faces from the past.EPISODE 3: The team is forced to work with the Russians to prevent an ex-Soviet state unleashing a deadly nerve agent, but controversy abounds when the two sides demonstrate their very different approaches to national security. And when the plan goes awry the team from The Grid must find a way to prevent the nerve agent falling into the wrong hands without losing political favour with Russia.EPISODE 4: Lucas’s past comes to the fore as he begins to crave a normal life with Maya, his long-lost love who is now back in his life. As Ruth becomes suspicious, she must also unravel the mystery of a delegation of Chinese security agents who arrive in the UK with a secret and potentially deadly agenda.EPISODE 5: The team faces a diplomatic and national security nightmare as they balance the US president’s first state visit with delicate Middle Eastern peace talks. But when an assassination plot is uncovered, everyone at The Grid must pull together to find the source of the threat – is it closer to home than they could ever imagine?EPISODE 6: MI5 is thrown into a cyberterrorism nightmare when an American Predator drone on loan to the UK in Afghanistan is hacked by the Taliban and turned on a US army camp, killing American soldiers. Lucas is tasked with protecting a young ex-hacker who can secure the situation but when his own issues get in the way, how far will he go to protect his secrets?EPISODE 7: Ruth must decide if an imbalanced MI5 applicant is telling the truth about a supposed dead drop he has discovered, a decision that puts her own life in jeopardy. Elsewhere an horrific truth about Lucas’s past is uncovered by Harry when they come face to face during a compelling interrogation.EPISODE 8: The team faces its toughest challenge yet when it is forced to track down Lucas North and prevent him reaching his goal. Calling in a specialist former Internal Affairs specialist to assist a team far too close to its target, Harry himself must nevertheless risk everything he holds dear as he confronts Lucas in a final face-off.

I never saw Spooks when it first aired years ago as I was either going out or whatever so I saw the odd episode on Freeview not so long ago but with all the ghastly advert breaks (it must have been a joy to see on BBC where it first aired with no breaks..) so I have brought all the complete series now, one at a time, via Amazon. I find them very plausible, no realistic might be a better word and considering the news events since this series ended on TV - which we get to know about - perhaps too true to real life events in the real world. If ever there was time to bring back a series, it’s Spooks - great stories, writing and acting. Sadly missed but live on via DVD’s.

It was certainly exciting and the story while being somewhat unbelievable did hold your attention and created the desire to view the next, but do we really need to have quite the huge amount of violence, and we do how can we possibly expect it not to spill over and onto our streets. I am a firm believer in, if you watch enough of something that is initially highly offensive in time your natural repulsion of it wrongness is replaced by a sterile ambivalence to its horror. And that applies to a great many aspects of life. TV and its influence has I believe much to answer for in forming many of the wrongs in our society today, and unfortunately a even decreasing influence for good.

Hooked on this. First series I have watched. Big fan of the way this is written. Lots of twists to the plots and sub plots. Great choice of actors. Story lines are relevant and exciting. Enjoyed the fact it is filmed in London. Richard Armitage does a great job.

You can't beat Spooks. This is part of the whole set we are collecting and addicted to. Series 9 takes you even further into the intrigue of MI5 that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. I would highly recommend this series and infact I would highly recommend all 10 series as they are brilliant. I wish they would make more - lets start a campaign to bring back Spooks series 11-20. Happy viewing and enjoy

Spooks 9 was entertaining, if a bit short on quantity. The main plot was very well thought out - tailored to my sense of the main actors characters. Half way through, I thought the plot was as full of holes as a couple of the baddies but it covered them well later... not a bad touch - playing even more than usual on our perception, a hallmark of 'MI-5,' along with the other realistic feature that really makes it stand out - ethical dilemma.However, ongoing musical chairs with MI-5 operatives, while edgy and lending variety - warning us, like them, not to become too emotionally attached - is a double-edged sword, for I find myself consciously distancing myself from the show's barrage of clever and manipulative emotional hooks. (Still, preserving its most stable characters saves it - you have to have someone whom it's reasonably safe to care about in order to care about the show).Anyway, this series finally focuses on the problem, with love stories featuring squarely, though (naturally) only at the expense of professional integrity. Every man has his price - maybe that's what makes him human - and here in the service, it's women. I suppose that is as good as one can expect but (note emotional protective evasion measure) maybe another reason we shouldn't worry too much now that the producer finally packed it in.

Bought as gift

Absolutely awesome series nicola walker Peter firth and the other actors make this series a must have