Spooks Series 6 Episode 10
It was the series finale of Spooks tonight, and as usual they didn’t fail to deliver with a gripping conclusion. We learned in this episode that Zaf was indeed dead. He was kidnapped earlier in the series and I had hoped he would turn up alive, but his disfigured remains were dumped at the British consulate in Karachi, identifiable only by dental records. His death was at the hands of a group who were kidnapping intelligence officers to extract information under torture. Their next targets were Jo and Adam, aided and abetted by CIA’s London liaison officer, Bob Hogan who had gone “freelance”. The final scenes saw a race against time as Harry and the others raced to the scene whilst Jo pleaded with Adam to kill her to spare her a fate of torture, rape and murder.
Did he kill her before special forces broke into the building? To be honest, it looked like he had but we won’t know til the next series. The refreshing thing about Spooks has always been its ability to dispense with major characters as the story dictates. In other programmes, the viewer always has the feeling that whatever the tension, the “hero” will live to fight another day. Spooks is nothing like as predictable.
Let ’s hope it’s back on our screens soon…