Season 5 • Episode 11
LatestA young woman from a rich and successful family turns terrorist, shunning her wealthy background and the British Justice system which she now views as being corrupt. Important legal establishments located around London are targeted by the terrorist groups, who are planting several bombs at key points around the city.
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Acting
Shaw and Collins' combustible chemistry sells every uneasy partnership beat.
Production
Gritty 70s London locations before everything got sanitized.
Writing
Clemens scripts that balance procedural tightness with surprising moral ambiguity.
Creator
Brian Clemens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CI5 didn't exist—Clemens invented it, though later British governments allegedly considered the concept after IRA bombing campaigns. Life imitating extremely pulpy art.
Lewis Collins actually applied to join the real SAS during filming; they rejected him for being 'too famous.' The irony escaped no one.
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