7.7/10222 votes#1 - Garden Leave
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2011
The team has been left shocked by Lucas's betrayal, and with Harry Pearce on gardening leave, Section D has a new leader called Erin Watts. She has brought Calum Reed with her into the team. Harry Pearce manages to win his MI5 employment tribunal and is soon back on the Grid in the thick of the action. Secrets end up being discovered after Max Witt, a retired spy and Harry's colleague in Berlin during the Cold War, is discovered to have been murdered.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent
7.9/10183 votes#2 - Stolen Laptop
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2011
Calum is attacked by a gang of street muggers during a routine intelligence-sharing exercise with MI6. The laptop he was carrying is stolen, and contains highly-classified information on MI5's undercover assets. Their names are soon plastered all over the internet, making MI5 look incompetent and putting those top assets' lives in danger.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent
7.9/10179 votes#3 - Dirty Bomb
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2011
MI5 receives a red flash: radioactive material has been detected at an airport. They have intelligence that a highly dangerous anarchist with a penchant for dirty bombs has secretly entered the country. They enlist Dimitri to honeytrap the anarchist's only known contact, his sister Natalie. It is a morally tough operation for Dimitri, but through Natalie he gets close to the dirty-bomber. Dimitri's personal connection to them both proves invaluable in the tense and potentially lethal endgame.
Director: Julian Holmes
Writer: Sean Cook
7.4/10170 votes#4 - Suicide Bomber
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2011
Two former inmates are released from jail. One is an undercover MI5 asset and the other is an impressionable wannabe suicide bomber who has been radicalised in prison. They are set to launch an attack somewhere in London, but our team must time it right and step in at the eleventh hour to prevent a massive loss of life.
Director: Julian Holmes
Writer: Sean Cook
7.9/10184 votes#5 - Kidnap
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2011
There is new evidence of CIA agent Jim Coaver's involvement in some recent attacks on MI5. Harry ends up kidnapping his former Cold War colleague but soon ends up realising that he's been looking in the wrong place and Jim could be innocent. Harry, with Ruth's help attempt to steal Coaver's laptop from under the noses of the Americans at the US embassy.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: N/A
8.6/10292 votes#6 - Deportation
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2011
Harry finds himself facing deportation to America following the death of CIA agent Jim Coaver. After some new evidence comes to light about the recent attacks on the United Kingdom and the government's proposed alliance with Russia, Ruth and her former colleagues in Section D free Harry from CIA custody. Harry's suspicions see him going to another of his former Cold War adversaries.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent
The Best Episodes of Spooks Season 10
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Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title...
Genres:DramaAction & AdventureCrime
Network:BBC One
Season 10 Ratings Summary
"Garden Leave" is the best rated episode of "Spooks" season 10. It scored 7.7/10 based on 222 votes. Directed by Alrick Riley and written by Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, it aired on 9/18/2011. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Stolen Laptop".