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Spooks Season 1 Episode 5

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AIRED: 6/10/02

Disgraced MP Hampton Wilder has written memoirs with the power to destroy the government. Moreover, an old KGB agent engaged in smuggling illegal arms has impugned the integrity of one of the Prime Minister's closest colleagues.

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David Oyelowo	Danny Hunter
Jenny Agutter	Tessa Phillips
Keeley Hawes	Zoe Reynolds
Matthew MacFadyen	Tom Quinn
Peter Firth	Harry Pearce

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Hugh Laurie	Jools Siviter	Guest Star
Tim Pigott-Smith	Hampton Wilder	Guest Star
Nicholas Farrell	Richard Maynard	Guest Star
Rory MacGregor	Colin Wells	Recurring Role
Hugh Simon	Malcolm Wynn-Jones	Recurring Role
Graeme Mearns	Jed Kelley	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Danny would not be driving or even the car that collected Hampton Wilder from the prison as there were so many television and still cameras there that his cover would be blown.
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QUOTES (5)
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- Lermov: You're not MI6.
  Tom: Why not?
  Lermov: You have bad manners.
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- Jools Siviter: It has been a very, very long night. The death of an agent, and possibly one of the worst productions of Wagner I have ever seen. Dear God, the Valkyrie were all dressed in scuba gear.
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- Harry: You go at Maynard, go at him hard.
  Tom: He's a minister, we'll need Downing Street clearance.
  Harry: Bugger Downing Street.
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- Harry: Lermov is probably lying.
  Tom: Why!
  Harry: It's in our nature, whichever side you're on.
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- (Jools Siviter is texting on his phone in the middle of a Wagner opera.)
  Opera Woman: Do you mind awfully not doing that?
  Jools Siviter: Are you a Nazi, madam? You see us Wagner fans are a rum lot. In my spare time I like to bugger skinheads, so kindly don't tell me what I can and cannot do.
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NOTES (4)
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- The American title for this episode is The Rose Bed Memoirs.
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- The desert shown at the beginning of the episode was actually the same area where Patrick and Tom would strip off in the next episode. The interior of the tent was filmed with the tent put up in a car park.
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- In this episode the names Tom, Dick and Harry feature prominently.
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- The Prison in which Hampton Wilder stayed is called Edgefield as permission could not be obtained to use the real Sedgefield prison.
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- Jools Siviter [of Wagner]: It is a bit of a closet thing these days; people can't handle the dark side.
  Composer Richard Wagner's music is often overshadowed by his published antisemitism and association with the Nazi party circa World War II.
  
  The "dark side" is a reference to the Star Wars mythology where it is synonymous with evil.
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