How does spooks series 10 end

An insider told The Mirror : "It's incredibly exciting to have Matthew back again, even if he's only seen fleetingly. It will bring back all the memories of Tom and what the character endured in those first few series. Spooks stars Lara Pulver and Geoffrey Streatfeild previously gave hints about the show's end, teasing that " they're not all going to make it ".

The downside was, we had far too much of the Gavrik family, who all spoke preposterous KGB English like the Compare the Market meerkats doing a vodka commercial. On the other hand, it did offer plenty of scope for a climactic unravelling of all the lies, counter-lies and betrayals that lay coiled up in Harry and Elena Gavrik's past Alice Krige as Elena and Peter Firth as Harry, pictured below. Behind Elena's smooth and icy exterior, it transpired, lay a bleak Siberian winter, which enabled her to plot airborne mass murder as calmly as the rest of us might butter a piece of toast.

Harry had been torturing himself for the way he'd manipulated Elena into becoming a double agent decades earlier, only to discover that she'd been super-treble-manipulating him all along. He was the quarry, not the hunter. Still, he must have been relieved that the morbid and petulant Sasha wasn't his son after all, as the flint-hearted Elena had led him to believe. You couldn't say that Ruth Nicola Walker had the last laugh, but her dogged professionalism and instinct for a wrong'un left her miles ahead of Harry when the chips were down.

Had it not been for her inspired one-minute-to-midnight intervention, everybody including the Home Secretary would have ended up in jail or at the very least on the dole. Walker's performance has been a sustained study in antisocial dowdiness, and in its quiet way a small masterpiece of TV acting. The way most of the agents are killed in the line of duty does nothing to inspire anyone to join MI5, even with there current recruitment overdrive View previous newsletters.

Skip to main content. Search form Search. After ten years, perilous missions, near global catastrophe and of course many, many deaths, Spooks really is over. Throughout this series, we have seen that Harry and the MI5 team have been played against a background of a mutually beneficial deal between Russia and Britain.

The team have been one step behind a covert group working in the shadows, hoping to derail the talks and to stop the new agreements taking place. At first, we thought it was the Americans, closing in on its former ally and trying to destabilise the diplomatic relationship. It was also hinted that the architect of the entire affair, Ilya Gavrik, may be behind it all; even his son Sasha was at certain points a prime suspect, but the threat is revealed to be a lot closer to home. Now as you would expect with a last episode, things are supposed to all end in a massive climax, for all the pieces to fall into place and the final showdown to happen in the last few minutes, for the hero to save the day and for everyone to walk off into the sunset.

Ad — content continues below. Lucky that all the CIA officers stayed behind to guard the empty cars though, leaving "the package" entirely unprotected save for the driver. Spooks eye roll, I will miss you. I've always imagined that the Spooks eye roll is exercised fairly often by the people making the show as well.

Surely Dimitri and Erin's paper shredder "We've been lucky" moment must have been a nod to the many, many times that Spooks just chanced across crucial information as they dashed about waving their iPhones in front of photogenic bits of London. I'd like to think so. Nicola Walker as Ruth was of course brilliant throughout the episode; holding that line about her opinion of Harry just long enough to make you wonder if Elena had got to Ruth, before defending him to the hilt.

I must admit to seeing Ruth's death coming — when she agreed to Gavrik's request, her fate seemed rather doomed — but then it did give the far more satisfying ending. I was worried we'd see Harry die in some kind of melodramatic parallel with the series.

Or worse, both Ruth and Harry in a terrible romantic, tragic scene. But the end when it came was very well pitched. And then, of course, we come to our mystery star guest.

The return of Tom Quinn, now apparently working as an MI6 assassin but still with a nice line in stylish jackets. Obviously it made no sense at all.