8.7/1017 votesLoading...#1 - Pandora's Box
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/1998
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
Writer: Frank De Palma, Terry Borst
8.6/1019 votesLoading...#2 - The Bureau of Weapons (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/1996
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
8.6/1012 votesLoading...#3 - The Revenge Effect
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/26/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1011 votesLoading...#4 - The Enemy Within
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 8/28/1999
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
Writer: Frank De Palma, Terry Borst
8.5/1012 votesLoading...#5 - Blaze of Glory
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/1997
First of a two parter to start off Series 3. A man called Mc-hage's business is desperately trying to be sabotaged, and he calls in Ros, Ed and Beckett to investigate. It turns out that just recently, Mc-Hage's son, Christopher, committed suicide and Ed goes to see Mc-Hage's daughter, Kitty Mc-Hage, to find out more about the business. Kitty decides to blow up half of London, using a chemical weapon that is under the ‘family' business. Beckett goes to The Bureau of Weapons Technology (the place where Roland used to work), where he meets Jan and Alex. Jan manages to con him into working at the Bureau, because of his financial problems and the fact that she catches him and Alex looking at Code: Red files. The team manage to stop the chemical weapon going off, just in time, but Ed realises that there is another bomb in the ‘Battle wagon' (an invention of Kitty's). Ed ends up getting blown up with the ‘wagon'
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1016 votesLoading...#6 - What Goes Up... (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/1996
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
8.3/1016 votesLoading...#7 - Whirling Dervish
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/1996
The Bugs team are called in to prevent a cartel of the world airlines from sabotaging Strate Air, a successful new airline. Hector Jerome, the airline cartel's main agent, becomes a target for the Bugs team and they discover he is in possession of a deadly new fighter plane- the Dervish. The Bugs team fight to stop them from shooting down Strate Air planes out of the sky, with Ed in the position to either shoot the plane down or die.
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: Colin Brake
8.3/1016 votesLoading...#8 - Blackout
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/1996
A woman called Pascal holds a building full of people hostage, claiming to be comcerned about the enivornment. However, her intensions are found out to be not that caring, as she plans to steal a lot of money and also the isotope triggers, which would cause a big explosion. the Bugs team fight to get back the triggers and stop Pascal's lover driving off with a fortune stolen from a bank
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: Frank De Palma
8.3/1012 votesLoading...#9 - Renegades
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 9/27/1997
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: N/A
8.3/109 votesLoading...#10 - Twin Geeks
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 8/14/1999
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
Writer: Colin Brake, Alex Stewart
8.3/1011 votesLoading...#11 - Money Spiders
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/21/1999
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
Writer: Frank De Palma, Terry Borst
8.1/1016 votesLoading...#12 - Schrodinger's Bomb
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/1996
Cassandra and ‘Daddy' strike a deal with Jean-Daniel and Ros ends up getting kidnapped by him. Roland Blatty has a ‘brush with death' when he is left in a room filled with lots of ticking bombs. Ed and Beckett go to save Ros, and end up having to use a chain saw to free her as she was handcuffed to a steering wheel, and inside the car there was a hand grenade. Beckett spends the final scene, sawing the steering wheel, to free Ros' wrists, and Jean- Daniel returns to the Bactrian Kings tombs to retrieve the Niobian 5 that was left there.
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: Stephen Gallagher
8.1/1011 votesLoading...#13 - Hollow Man
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/9/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1015 votesLoading...#14 - ... Must Come Down (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/13/1996
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
8.0/1020 votesLoading...#15 - A Cage for Satan (2)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/22/1996
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: N/A
7.9/1010 votesLoading...#16 - Happy Ever After?
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/30/1997
The team are investigating about the mysterious disapearence of a woman called Julia, kidnapped at her own wedding. Ros and Beckett go to the location she is being kept at, and Ros is shot whilst trying to escape. She is taken to hospital and is OK, but Channing tellls her that her job is just too dangerous and that she shoulddefinatly go to America with him, and Breckett also tells her that she should go. Ed is caught when he tries to rescue Julia, and they discobver that the person behind it all is Julia's husband, Mark. They are trapped underneath a bomb and find a narrow tunnel to escape through. Beckett has to dis-arm a bomb and Ros lets herself out of the Bureau and goes to the Bureau to help them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1010 votesLoading...#17 - Fugitive
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/23/1997
Ros is set up and sent into custody. Even Jan seems to believe that she is guilty, but Beckett loyally stays beside her and tries to get her out. Ros eventually manages to escape and runs into the comforting arms of Channing. Ros realises that the ‘mole' is actually at the SSD (where she was sent into custody) and finds out who it is. The problem is that all the SSD people still think its her, and she is wanted for theft and murder, neither of which she did. She finally manages to make them see who it is. When things have pretty much got back to normal, Channing then tells Ros he is merging worth an American company and is moving to California, and that he wants her to go with him...
Director: Matthew Evans
Writer: N/A
7.8/1011 votesLoading...#18 - Buried Treasure
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/1997
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: N/A
7.8/109 votesLoading...#19 - Absent Friends
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/1998
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
7.8/109 votesLoading...#20 - Sacrifice to Science
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/18/1998
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
Writer: Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty
7.8/1011 votesLoading...#21 - Girl Power
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/25/1998
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
Writer: Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#22 - Pulse
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/10/1995
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
7.7/1016 votesLoading...#23 - Bugged Wheat
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/1996
A special sort of wheat, being developed so that it is resistant to all known crop diseases is destroyed by intruders breaking into the European Agronomy Council and spray a viroid over the crop. Beckett goes undercover as a sceintist to invesitigate the viroid and dicovers that the plan is to spray the viroid over crops in the world and then deliver a special anti-viroid, which will save the world from starvation and make the makers of the anti-viroid very rich. Ros, however, has problems of her own, when her car is infested with killer wasps and the brakes won't work, and she can't open the doors...
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
7.7/1015 votesLoading...#24 - Gold Rush
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/11/1996
A room full of gold is infected with a new sort of virus that quite literally eats gold. It is up to Ros to make an antidote to return the gold to normal, and she doesn't have long- after some time, and once the gold has reached a certain temperature, it will be irreversible and the gold will be lost forever. Ed is trapped in the room with the gold and also two security things that continuously try to shoot him. Beckett decides to get Ed out of the room, as the antidote Ros creates is harmful to humans, but his only way to get to it is by going through a tunnel filled with toxic fumes.
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: Bruno Heller, Alison Leathart
7.7/1011 votesLoading...#25 - Nuclear Family
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/16/1997
A foreign president is critically ill and everyone thinks he is dying, and there is no cure for his disease. Then, an English doctor discovers a way of saving his life, but he has to wait to undergo the operation. It is then found out that there is a traitor within the embassy, and the finger is instantly pointed at his much younger wife. All of Bureau Two believe her to be the traitor, except Beckett, who won't believe it (does he ever?) and thinks that the security guard is responsible. He and Nataliar (the wife) are then kidnapped by the people the traitor is working for, and one woman sets up a bomb next to them, with green pressure pad to detonate it. Ros, of course sets this off.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Bugs
Every episode of Bugs ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bugs!
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and...
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Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"Pandora's Box" is the best rated episode of "Bugs". It scored 8.7/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Brian Grant and written by Frank De Palma, Terry Borst, it aired on 8/22/1998. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Bureau of Weapons (1)".