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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Spooks Season 6 Episode 5 - The Deal
    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #1 - The Deal

    S6:E5

    MI5 has to intercept a Russian arms dealer who plans to pass blueprints for a nuclear device to Iran. Adam and Ana decide to bring their relationship to a close.

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writer:Zinnie Harris

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  2. Spooks Season 1 Episode 1 - Thou Shalt Not Kill
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Thou Shalt Not Kill

    S1:E1

    An abortion doctor is executed by an American pro-life terrorist; Mary Kane. An informant reveals that this is just the tip of the iceberg as Mary has 20 more bombs and plans on using them. To make matters worse she has started training more pro-life groups, within the UK.

    Director:Bharat Nalluri
    Writer:David Wolstencroft

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  3. Spooks Season 3 Episode 5 - Love and Death
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Love and Death

    S3:E5

    Saturday morning. Danny and Colin practice their firing technique on MI5's gun range. Zoe and her fiancé Will are still madly in love. Ruth watches old movies at home whilst longing for real-life romance. A North Sea mission places additional stain on all relationships...

    Director:Justin Chadwick
    Writer:David Wolstencroft

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  4. Spooks Season 5 Episode 2 - Gas and Oil (Part 2)
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Gas and Oil (Part 2)

    S5:E2

    MI5 has foiled an attempt to murder the Home Secretary, but the plotters use the new emergency powers to imprison Harry. The team must try to frustrate the coup before Harry is executed.

    Director:Omar Madha
    Writer:Ben Richards

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  5. Spooks Season 3 Episode 3 - Who Guards the Guards?
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Who Guards the Guards?

    S3:E3

    Danny and the team must uncover the truth behind an assassination attempt on a famous novelist.

    Director:Cilla Ware
    Writers:Howard Brenton, Rupert Walters

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  6. Spooks Season 1 Episode 4 - Traitor's Gate
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Traitor's Gate

    S1:E4

    MI5's best officer, Peter Salter, seems to be joining the enemy. President Bush is scheduled to visit and it seems as though Salter is trying to stop the peace, is this all part of his mission or is he in fact a triple-agent?

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Howard Brenton

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  7. Spooks Season 2 Episode 4 - Blood and Money
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #7 - Blood and Money

    S2:E4

    After stealing a large amount of money from a bank, a man is found crucified on the moors. The Treasury call in the team to investigate, but when Harry decides to take the mission further Danny's life is put in danger.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Howard Brenton

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  8. Spooks Season 2 Episode 6 - Without Incident
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Without Incident

    S2:E6

    The president of the USA makes an unexpected stop in London. Tom and his team are forced to work with the CIA. A power struggle between the two secret organizations begins, but will they stop fighting before a terrible mistake is made? And will Tom ex-girlfriend leave well alone or will she have to be taught a lesson?

    Director:Justin Chadwick
    Writer:David Wolstencroft

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  9. Spooks Season 3 Episode 9 - Frequently Asked Questions
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Frequently Asked Questions

    S3:E9

    When known mercenary Robert Morgan is spotted at a top-secret disused Soviet arms dump, he obviously has to be brought in for questioning. Is it all right to blackmail innocent people to get the information you want? Is it acceptable to threaten the lives of a suspect's family?

    Director:Alrick Riley
    Writer:Rupert Walters

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  10. Spooks Season 4 Episode 3 - Divided They Fall
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Divided They Fall

    S4:E3

    Far-right political party The British Way is threatening democracy so Adam and Fiona go undercover to infiltrate and destroy its campaign.

    Director:Alrick Riley
    Writer:Ben Richards

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  11. Spooks Season 9 Episode 1 - Plymouth
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Plymouth

    S9:E1

    Reeling after the explosion at the hotel, Section D is left considering the sacrifices they make as spies. But they are soon back in action, tracking Somalian AQ terrorist Abib on a boat from Tangier. When it becomes clear that the boat is carrying a lethal load, the team fears it is headed to Plymouth for the launch of the newest addition to the Royal Navy's fleet. But is the real target elsewhere, and is it too late to find the UK source of the plan? Lucas's own faith is challenged when he is visited by an unwelcome ghost from his past.

    Director:Paul Whittington
    Writers:Sam Vincent, Jonathan Brackley

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  12. Spooks Season 1 Episode 5 - The Rose Bed Memoirs
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #12 - The Rose Bed Memoirs

    S1:E5

    Disgraced MP Hampton Wilder has written memoirs with the power to destroy the government, what's more an old KGB agent is trying to smuggle illegal arms into and out of the country, besmirching the good name of the Prime Minister's right hand man.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Howard Brenton

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  13. Spooks Season 2 Episode 3 - Spiders
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Spiders

    S2:E3

    MI5's mainframe has been hacked into. But Tom and his team think they have found a lead in the form of an I.T. teacher, so Zoe is sent undercover to get close to him and find out his secrets. Will they be able to stop the culprit before the inner sanctum is breached and every agents' identity revealed?

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Matthew Graham

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  14. Spooks Season 2 Episode 7 - Clean Skin
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #14 - Clean Skin

    S2:E7

    A French scientist has gone renegade and taken a top secret weapon called Firestorm with him, which he is threatening to sell to the highest bidder. Now he has ended up in the UK, and MI5 is forced to work with French Intelligence. But the British want the technology. They have to steal the technology without the French finding out, using an agent that if caught has no affiliation to Five. But there is a burglary at Harry's flat which puts the operation in jeopardy. Or does it?

    Director:Ciarán Donnelly
    Writer:Simon Mirren

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  15. Spooks Season 2 Episode 9 - The Seventh Division
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #15 - The Seventh Division

    S2:E9

    Tom is undercover with Customs, but when he goes off to phone in, the rest of the crew are murdered. A Colombian drugs cartel are suspected. Zoe and Tom are sent undercover to 'turn' the girlfriend of the head of the cartel. Tonight also sees the re-appearance of Tessa and she wants revenge on Harry and MI5. Will she endanger Tom and Zoe's life? Will the mole be found before it's too late? Or will Tessa get her revenge and allow someone to die?

    Director:Sam Miller
    Writer:Ben Richards

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  16. Spooks Season 2 Episode 8 - Strike Force
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #16 - Strike Force

    S2:E8

    A new series of strikes prompted by the unions has the team worried. And when news of a 'strike' by the army arise, Tom is sent undercover to investigate. Meanwhile Zoe takes charge back at the Grid, and is tasked with moving spent uranium cells across the country after rail strikes prevent it taking it's usual route. Will it get to Dover on time? Or will it fall into the wrong hands?

    Director:Ciarán Donnelly
    Writer:Steve Bailie

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  17. Spooks Season 3 Episode 7 - Outsiders
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Outsiders

    S3:E7

    While a deadly hacker turns Britain upside down, Danny decides whether to reveal all to Will, MI5 hunts the source down to an Islamic mosque with the help of MI5's best computer programmers. But things get suspicious when Ruth, close onto the tail of the hacker, goes missing and so does a member of the special team...

    Director:Bill Anderson
    Writer:Raymond Khoury

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  18. Spooks Season 4 Episode 5 - The Book
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #18 - The Book

    S4:E5

    A neo-conservative group murder an ex-minister to cover up his past and then they hunt down the journalist who is threatening to blow the story and is under MI5 protection.

    Director:Jeremy Lovering
    Writer:Raymond Khoury

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  19. Spooks Season 5 Episode 4 - World Trade
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #19 - World Trade

    S5:E4

    Posted undercover at the World Trade Summit for Africa, the team discovers an assassination plot. Initially determined to put their lives on the line to prevent the murder, they are faced with a moral dilemma on discovering the motive behind the plot.

    Director:Kenneth Glenaan
    Writer:David Farr

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  20. Spooks Season 1 Episode 3 - One Last Dance
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #20 - One Last Dance

    S1:E3

    Whilst on a routine check of the bugs in the Turkish Embassy, Zoe and all the other people in the embassy are taken hostage by terrorists who wish to negotiate the release of their parents from prison. If Zoe's cover as a PR consultant is blown she will almost certainly be killed. Things worsen when Harry realises that the attack on the embassy was all just a distraction from something much, much bigger.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Simon Mirren

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  21. Spooks Season 2 Episode 1 - Legitimate Targets
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #21 - Legitimate Targets

    S2:E1

    With Tom's family trapped in his house with a bomb, and nothing Tom or the other spooks can do but watch on. There is a huge explosion and the credits begin. However, there is no time to focus on these events as a Serbian warlord has been seen entering the UK vowing revenge for the death of his sons in a NATO bombing raid. Zoe is sent undercover to track him down, and stop any more deaths.

    Director:Bharat Nalluri
    Writer:David Wolstencroft

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  22. Spooks Season 5 Episode 1 - Gas and Oil (Part 1)
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Gas and Oil (Part 1)

    S5:E1

    The government introduces Draconian emergency measures in response to a series of terrorist attacks. MI5 fears that influential establishment figures are behind the attacks and may be planning a coup.

    Director:Omar Madha
    Writer:Ben Richards

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  23. Spooks Season 5 Episode 10 - Aftermath
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Aftermath

    S5:E10

    An environmental terrorist group is threatening to flood London if the government does not make a secret document public.

    Director:Julian Holmes
    Writer:David Farr

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  24. Spooks Season 8 Episode 6 - Bankruptcy
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Bankruptcy

    S8:E6

    With the country on the verge of bankruptcy, the government can't pay its national debt payments. Section D is asked to get back more than a billion pounds of illegal earnings from the DeWits Bank. The team has to find out what, or who, Nightingale is after Ruth's investigations into the power meeting at Basel pay off.

    Director:Edward Hall
    Writer:Dennis Kelly

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  25. Spooks Season 9 Episode 4 - Chinese Prize
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Chinese Prize

    S9:E4

    When a highly skilled trio of Chinese agents arrive in London for 48 hours only, the team must find out why they are here. Ruth goes undercover in a major scientific research corporation where one Chinese scientist, Jiang, proves to be the ultimate prize. Beth activates an asset from the Chinese Security Services to be Section D's mole on the inside, but has she activated him too soon? Lucas makes a decision that could change his course forever.

    Director:Paul Whittington
    Writers:Sam Vincent, Jonathan Brackley

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Deal" is the worst rated episode of "Spooks". It scored 5.2/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Brendan Maher and written by Zinnie Harris, it aired on 11/6/2007. This episode scored 2.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Thou Shalt Not Kill".