Episode guide
Spooks: Series 8
8 episodes · premiered Nov 4, 2009
The eighth action-packed series finds the team in a race against time to rescue Harry, who has been kidnapped by rogue Russian agents. But as they dig deeper into his disappearance, they find a trail that leads to Iraq, and a conspiracy that involves the CIA, MI6 and some missing weapons-grade uranium. Could Harry know where it is? And how is former team member Ruth Evershed, recently returned to the security of MI5 having fled her new life in Cyprus, connected to it all?
- Episode 1: Uranium Nov 4, 2009 · 59m Harry is still missing, and there is one question on everyone's mind: is he dead, or alive? Section D discovers that Harry thwarted a clandestine operation to smuggle weapons-grade uranium…
- Episode 2: Energy Nov 6, 2009 · 59m The country reaches crisis point when energy supplies are threatened by an explosion at a gas processing plant. With reserves on the verge of running out, Britain is forced to turn to…
- Episode 3: Tycoons Nov 13, 2009 · 58m The pressure is on for Section D when a secret meeting of powerful tycoons is stormed by armed terrorists and eight of the world's richest men are taken captive. But this is no normal…
- Episode 4: Nemesis Nov 20, 2009 · 59m Lucas's past comes back to haunt him when his former torturer Darshavin turns up with intelligence about a bomb in London. Harry fears Darshavin still has a psychological hold over Lucas…
- Episode 5: Sudden Death Nov 27, 2009 · 58m Harry is puzzled by the sudden death of CIA boss Samuel Walker. Harry is convinced that he did not commit suicide and when another CIA agent dies he begins to think that the deaths have…
- Episode 6: Bankruptcy Dec 4, 2009 · 59m 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…
- Episode 7: Start a War Dec 11, 2009 · 59m After a Pakistani intelligence officer is murdered in South London, the head of the Pakistani intelligence service talks to Harry and Ros. They learn that there is a planned attack on some…
- Episode 8: Brink of War Dec 23, 2009 · 58m With India and Pakistan on the brink of war, emergency talks are set up in an exclusive London hotel. Section D faces its biggest challenge yet, as the team tries to avert the first…