Traitor in the ranks

Spooks newcomer, Beth Bailey, was thrown in at the deep on her first operation with Section D when she went undercover as a trader to protect Robert Westhouse, an influential oil-baron, who seemed to be the target of an assassination attempt. A secret meeting of Britain’s top oil dealers was set up, but before Beth even arrived they were attacked in a machine gun massacre, which only she and a man named Jacob Chapman survived. Section D set out to uncover more about the culprit of the attack with Ruth shocked to discover a link between one of her colleagues and the masked gunman. Elsewhere, through covert surveillance, Harry and Lucas discovered Westhouse had arranged to take possession of a deadly ex-Soviet nerve agent and was planning an attack with it. The pair raced against time to halt the threat before it caused irreversible damage. Meanwhile, Lucas was reacquainted with an old flame, Maya (Laila Rouass) who he hadn’t seen for 15 years.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.