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   #1 - Hollow Man

   S3:E48/9/1997

   A man creates a holo-imager which is used on the new £100 notes. Another guy, North, who helped design the holo-imager and who is also supposedly dead, turns up alive, and is trying to make fake £100 notes to ‘up' his bank balance. Ros goes to dinner with the man who created the holo-imager and he ends up being told to shoot her, but he lets her go.

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   #2 - Pandora's Box

   S4:E68/22/1998

   The legendary tomb of King Arthur is supposedly at a site, where suddely a lot of people are becoming ill and new owners have stopped all normal work. beckett goes undercover to find out what is going on, and with the help of the others, they discover that the digging for the tomb has unearthed a plague. Alex falls ill with the pague and Ros works at finding her a cure. She is also worried about Beckett, who insists to stay at the site and stop the men from letting more people die and shows for the first time since they split up that she still cares for him.

   Director:Brian Grant

   Writers:Frank De Palma, Terry Borst

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   Director:Brian Grant

   Writers:Frank De Palma, Terry Borst
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   #3 - Down Among the Dead Men

   S1:E44/22/1995

   Ed and Beckett go 'under cover' and end up on board a submarine. They are, however, found out to be fakes and, whilst Ed escapes, Beckett is left on the submarine with a money hungry man, eager to gain access to a bank and steal some diamonds a long the way. Beckett ends up getting trapped on the submarine, as it slowly fills with water. The man, meanwhile, has got his associate to steal these diamonds, but their plan is foiled when Ros enters the scene. Ed goes under the sea to search for the submarine and but will he find Beckett in time?

   Director:Andrew Grieve

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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   Director:Andrew Grieve

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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   #4 - Hot Metal

   S1:E85/27/1995

   R-6 is a new type of metal, and it has an explosive nature. A man called DaSilva decides to take advantage of this property of the metal and tries to steal it. The Bugs team are involved and try to stop DaSilva leaving the country with the metal to make it into deadly weapons.

   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Alan Whiting

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   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Alan Whiting
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   #5 - A Sporting Chance

   S1:E96/3/1995

   A special formula has been developed which enhances the performance of athletes. However, no-one has considered the after effects, which are that when the person's heart reaches a certain rate, the body can't cope and the person drops down dead. Ed comes to realise this when he is having a karate match with a person who has been injected with the stuff, and the man goes hyper, then falls down dead (whoops!). Ros eventually goes to find out more about the stuff, and ends up with another hyper person chasing her, then he suddenly collapses. however, Ros is still caught and taken away by the developer of the formula, to be his new guinea-pig.

   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Colin Brake

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   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Colin Brake
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   #6 - Pulse

   S1:E106/10/1995

   Many small companies are being bought up by two mysterious men and Ros, Ed and Beckett are called to investigate. When the manager in another company is suddenly blown up, Beckett takes his place. The two suspicious people turn out to be Jean-Daniel and his brother, Patrick. They realise that Beckett is not the real manager and Jean-Daniel goes round to ‘Gizmos' (the place where Ros, Ed and Beckett were based in Series One) Beckett ends up being kidnapped. Ed's friend, Clare, has also got mixed up in the brothers' plans, and her daughter, Katie, has been held hostage until she gives them exactly what they want. Jean-Daniel's brother is killed. Beckett and Katie manage to escape and stop Jean-Daniel's plans, and reposition the missile that stops any type of computer generated items from working, to where they are.

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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   #7 - The Bureau of Weapons (1)

   S2:E96/8/1996

   A deadly powerful creature called Cyberax has escaped from a computer and then suddenly Cyberax the company is born, by no other than Jean-Daniel. He creates a machine that takes over some of the user's mind. Once they have finnished using the Cyberax headset, it leaves a little bit of itself behind. when the person finds out about Cyberax again, as they forget all memories to do with Cyberax, their brains go into overload and they kill themselves. Roland Blatty (the old bureau chief) gets hold of one of these headsets and blows his brain up when Ed jokingly says that he hopes that Roland has had the system checked for viruses. The whole Bureau team are also wiped out when they too discover the deadly truth about Cyberax. Beckett decides that the only way to stop this is to pretend that he has used the headset and had his brain blown up (so to speak) and he is taken away by Cassandra, who is now working with Jean-Daniel. Jean-Daniel realises that Beckett wouldn't do something so stupid

   Director:Stephen Gallagher

   Writer:Andrew Grieve

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   Writer:Andrew Grieve
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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - A Cage for Satan (2)

   S2:E106/22/1996

   Another second parter to end the Series. Cyberax's destructive nature has entered Ros' brain and Beckett and Ed find themselves racing against time (and the fact that if Ros finds out about the true nature of Cyberax, her mind will explode) to save her. Beckett ‘foils' Jean-Daniel's plans, but in the process accidentally tells Ros the truth about Cyberax, and Ed has to kill her, electrocuting her. The reason being that ‘because Cyberax is a virus in the memory, you have to shut down the system and reboot with a completely new set of instructions'- (as said by Ed).

   Director:Andrew Grieve

   Writer:Unknown

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   #9 - The Revenge Effect

   S3:E27/26/1997

   The second part, where Ed is still in hospital and feeling a bit depressed at the fact that his injuries mean that he will be in and out of hospital for a while. He has, however, agreed to join the Bureau, where as Ros ‘doesn't want to give up her independence.' Outside, in the hospital corridors, Ros admits that she is worried about Ed and gets all emotional. Beckett tells her that everything will be OK, but sounds more unsure than she is. Kitty tries to change her identity, to drop out of sight, and chooses the Duchess of Forteza. But her unloyal associate changes the password to her new bank account, and gives it to Ed. So, Kitty kidnaps Ed to get it. There is soon a race against time for the team to find the code name for the account, as they know the password, not the name, and for Kitty, to get the password, as she knows the access name. Alex manages to get the code name, by pretending to be Ros, and going to the bank.

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    #10 - Buried Treasure

    S3:E89/13/1997

    A lot of convicts are conviently let out of prison a few years before they should by the mysterious ‘Athena'. THe Bugs team go to investigate about the third man to be let out of prison, a Mr Flood. However, after they confront him, he escapes and runs to the carpark, closly followed by Alex, who loses him. Suddenly, he runs at her, determined to throw her off the side of the parking lot and she finds herself throwing him iff instead (by accident, of course). So, they decide that Beckett will take his place and he is taken to a place where he has to make a bomb to get through a steel door. With Ros telling him exactly what to do and with the aid of a ‘neat' pair of glasses that enable Ros to see what he is doing, he makes it and finallly decides toi tell Ros who he feels, saying that he was jealous about her and Channing. But the communications go down and he realises that she didn't hear him. He is just talking to himself, saying that its probably a good thing that she doesn't know ho

    Director:Matthew Evans

    Writer:Unknown

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    #11 - Identity Crisis

    S3:E99/20/1997

    JAN mysterially dissapears and is replaced by a new JAN at the bureau which causes friction between the team. But where has the other JAN gone and why did she leave without saying a word or telling them where she was going?

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Colin Brake

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    #12 - Renegades

    S3:E109/27/1997

    Roland Blatty is still in hospital and a nurse explains to a new one that he will remain that way forever. However, once she has left the room, leaving the new nurse and Roland alone, he suddenly wakes up and attacks her, before walking out of the hospital. Beckett, Ed and Alex go to check on the other two members of the bureau, who are also in hospital. Ed and Alex find that the woman they were going to check on has also escaped from the hospital she was in, in the same circumstances as Roland. The woman Beckett checks on is, however, still unconscious, and he is explaining to the nurse what to look out for, when the woman wakes up, attacks Beckett and flees from the hospital before anyone can stop her. The team soon find out that the old bureau members are after the four discs that make up the remains of Cyberax. The virus was kept on four discs so that the next time something like that happened, they could use Cyberax to help them overcome it. Beckett is suddenly kidnapped by Rolan

    Director:Matthew Evans

    Writer:Unknown

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    #13 - Absent Friends

    S4:E17/11/1998

    Ros is missing and Beckett, Alex and Ed are desperately searching for her. However, they find her car a river with some of her blood in it, and presume that she is dead. Beckett won't accept this, and sobs his little heart out at Ros' house. He ends up quitting from the bureau, to devote his time to searching for Ros. Beckett goes to see Ros' Mum, her ex-fianceé, Terry and does everything he can to determine Ros' whereabouts. Ros is actually alive and well (naturally) and is working with Terry. Ed and Alex are given a job to transport what they think is something that saves lives- but they were given false information. Beckett is also where Alex and Ed are, still trying to find leads on what happened to Ros, and then Ros suddenly appears, steals the stuff that Alex and Ed are looking after, with Terry and two other people and runs to Terry's van As she starts the van, and starts to drive off, she sees Beckett, but is told by Terry to keep driving. She does as he says, leaving behind Be

    Director:Gwennan Sage

    Writer:Colin Brake

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    Director:Gwennan Sage

    Writer:Colin Brake
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    #14 - Sacrifice to Science

    S4:E27/18/1998

    Ros is still missing, although now the others know that she is not actually dead. Ros decides to ring Beckett and ask him to meet her, and Beckett quickly rushes to where she is. They meet on a bridge and Beckett is demanding an explanation, but Ros is too upset to give an answer. they go to see the others (Terry, Chris and Morag) who voice their opinions on Bureau 2 becoming involved; they don't like it one bit, especially Terry, who ideally wants to pick up where he and Ros left off, but he realises that that is never going to happen, because Ros is together with Beckett. However, because Beckett's Jeep had a bug on it the people trying to stop Ros and Terry find out where they are, and Chris and Morag are killed. Then they decide to blow up the base where Ros, Terry and Beckett are. They presume they are dead, but they managed to escape just in time. Beckett and Ros are walking in the hospital garden together and Beckett asks for an explanation. Ros tells him exactly what happened t

    Director:Brian Grant

    Writers:Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty

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    Writers:Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty
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    #15 - Girl Power

    S4:E37/25/1998

    Carly, a 14 year old girl breaks into The Hive and for some reason Ros is put in charge of her, which she is not too happy about. Beckett is moving into a rather run-down flat which Alex found for him, and his friendship with Ros is rather ‘rocky'. Carly is taken off Ros' hands by a man who turns out to be a baddie after an ancient funeral mask that the Bureau are looking after. He manages to con Carly into stealing the mask and once she realises why they want it, she runs off and hides it. Soon, both Ros and Carly are held prisoner until Carly gives the whereabouts of the mask. They are trapped under a lift. Carly manages to get out and tell Alex and Ed where it is hidden, and they quickly find it.

    Director:Gwennan Sage

    Writers:Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty

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    Writers:Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty
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    #16 - The Two Becketts

    S4:E48/1/1998

    A man breaks into a building, and although he tries to escape, he is caught. He then asks for Beckett, saying that he will only talk to him, and no-one else, and although becket doesn't know who he is, he goes to meet him. Once he reaches the place and sees the man, he simply says ""You,"" and punches him. The man then reveals that he is Beckett's father. Beckett takes his Dad to his house, where he tries to exlpain why he ran out on Beckett 10 years ago, after his Mum's funeral. He then explains that he was trying to find out about the whereabouts of a man who is after the two witnesses that will send him to prison. Ed goes to check it out, only to see that the man has escaped. Both of the witnesses are kidnapped and Beckett's Dad finally reveals that he wants to see the man go down because he killed Beckett's Mum. So, Beckett and his Dad go to find the man, as well as the two witnesses and Alex, who got mixed up in the whole thing.

    Director:Brian Grant

    Writers:Frank De Palma, Terry Borst

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    #17 - Twin Geeks

    S4:E88/14/1999

    Some Twin bright sparks decide that the world does not take them seriously enough, and plan to pay back the company that sacked them, years before. Beckett gets caught up in the process and is Beckett-napped (haha), whilst Ros is having a hard time facing up to the fact that ex-boyfriend Channing sold her designs to a new firm. So, she decides to buy them back, with the help of an old friend, who works at a bank. Alex and Adam go to investigate more about the ‘twin geeks'. However, they are trapped in a room, and the temperature is gradually decreasing, so Ed comes to the rescue. Ros goes to find Beckett, who has a little device attached to his wrist that will make a bomb explode just above him, if he walks to far away from it. This bomb is attached to the ceiling by an electromagnet, and Ros releases this and Beckett catches the bomb and has to run around with this. Ed saves Alex and Adam just in time, but gets jealous when she is more concerned about Adam, than thanking him. Beckett

    Director:Brian Grant

    Writers:Colin Brake, Alex Stewart

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    Writers:Colin Brake, Alex Stewart
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Money Spiders

    S4:E98/21/1999

    Two baddies (Zephyr and Wymark) create some ‘spiders' that route around networks looking for juicy bits of information that they can use to black mail people in a ‘get rich quick' scheme using something called Catflap. The Bugs team are called in when a man has this happen to him, and they set up a trap to lure the people responsible to them. However, this goes horribly wrong and Zephyr and Wymark end up with what they think is Catflap (actually it is just a fake.) So, they turn to Adam Mosby for help and blackmail him by saying that they will kill Alex if he doesn't get Catflap from The Hive for them. He agrees and gives it to them in the second part. Ros and Ed go to investigate about Zephyr and Wymark, but are caught and forced to make a run for it, to the top of the building. Luckily Ed has some equipment with him and they absailing down the side of the building. But, Ros gets stuck half way down, as she is panicky about getting caught (her glove got caught in the figure of eight)

    Director:John Stroud

    Writers:Frank De Palma, Terry Borst

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    Writers:Frank De Palma, Terry Borst
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Enemy Within

    S4:E108/28/1999

    Ros has yet another brush with death, this time because she was shot in the head by Zephyr. As she fights for her life in hospital throughout the episode, Beckett is desperately trying to find the people (Wymark and Zephyr) who put her there. Zephyr and Wymark end up in the same hospital as there is the new G-5 chip there which they need to gain enough processing power to con a bank into giving the m a few million pounds. Many things interrupt the surgery being performed on Ros (by a rather eccentric surgeon) including a power cut brought on by Wymark shooting the main power cables, leaving it up to Beckett and Ed to put it back to normal (which they manage to do, of course). At the end, Ros wakes up and is OK, and Beckett actually kisses her, putting the hope in everybody's hearts that they are actually going to get back together. However, this vision is quickly destroyed, as after Alex and Adam's wedding, Beckett and Christa are talking together and Christa practically proposes to h

    Director:Brian Grant

    Writers:Frank De Palma, Terry Borst

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    #20 - Out of the Hive

    S1:E14/1/1995

    Ros and Beckett first meet, after Beckett is forced to leave The Hive when he is framed for leaking information. The real traitor turns out to be Beckett's boss, Cottrell, working alongside his lover, Elena Johnson. The pair are trying to steal SACROS, a device which jams satellite signals. Beckett, Ros and Ed race against time to save Beckett's job and SACROS, and to stop Cottrell and Elena.

    Director:Brian Farnham

    Writer:Duncan Gould

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    #21 - Assassins Inc

    S1:E24/8/1995

    Ros, Ed and Beckett's first customer appears in the form of Irene Campell, who turns out to have conned Beckett into helping her continue doing her business. Roland Blatty, a friend of Ros' who own the new Bureau of Weapons is trying to put a stop to the devices Irene sells, which have killed countless people. The team race against time to stop Irene and her legal adviser, Morasco and at the same time save Ed from a microbe that is killing him.

    Director:Ken Grieve

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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    #22 - All Under Control

    S1:E34/15/1995

    Ros, Ed and Beckett are called in to investigate the mysterious plane that went ‘out of control' for a while. However, while Ros is checking out the aeroplane, it suddenly decides to take off!!! Ros is left in the plane and it takes off, and Ed and Beckett discover that there is a man behind it all, controlling the plane like a remote control one. Ros starts to panic as the fuel gradually gets lower and lower, and Ed goes to find the man behind it, telling Ros that she might have to land the plane herself.

    Director:Brian Farnham

    Writer:Duncan Gould

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    #23 - Stealth

    S1:E65/6/1995

    An attempt to steal a revolutionary new car with an advanced guidance system is foiled by the Bugs team. The thieves then turn their attention to a millitary vehicle powered by a radioactive RTG, and Ros and Beckett have to cliumb onto the moving driverless vehicle, to stop the explosion from breaking the radioactive container and killing off most of the people in the country.

    Director:Ken Grieve

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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    #24 - What Goes Up... (1)

    S2:E14/6/1996

    Ed is put into training to go up in a space shuttle, mainly to find out who is trying to stop the launch of it, and not to actually go up in it. But, of course, he ends up having to go up with another woman pilot. However, the ‘baddie' trying to stop the launch makes the shuttle 'breakdown' (so to speak) and they end up getting ‘stuck in space.....'

    Director:Brian Farnham

    Writer:Colin Brake

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    #25 - ... Must Come Down (2)

    S2:E24/13/1996

    Concluding Part from last week! Ed is put into training to go up in a space shuttle, mainly to find out who is trying to stop the launch of it, and not to actually go up in it. But, of course, he ends up having to go up with another woman pilot. However, the 'baddie' trying to stop the launch makes the shuttle 'breakdown' (so to speak) and they end up getting 'stuck in space.....'

    Director:Brian Farnham

    Writer:Colin Brake

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