Monday nights have just got more thrilling. Eleanor Margesson watches as the fifth series of Spooks unfolds on BBC1.
Imagine you are a spy. Your mission: to bug the house of a terror suspect in order to gain intelligence about their imminent bombing campaign. As you enter the empty house on a rainy night, a cat escapes past you into the dark. What do you do?
This classic moment in the first ever episode of the BBC’s MI5 thriller Spooks gives us the answer — you need to leave the place exactly as you found it. So you’ll need a bowl of cat food and a hairdryer to leave no trace that might alert the suspicions of your target. It is this sort of attention to detail and wry comedy, mixed with high tension drama that has led the original series created by David Wolstencroft to such success that a sixth season has already been commissioned. Last month saw the first screenings of season five with a brilliant two-parter playing on consecutive nights in order to remind fans of the original concepts and to net in new addicts.
