[spooks] Code 9 - My Review - Ep5

Episode 5: 

Episode 5.  And what a corker this week!  The subplots are hotting up nicely as we discover that there's a second bomb and it's implied that it could go off at the one year anniversary of the original bomb!  Woooo.

Lots of action this week with a good main story.  OK, it's a main story that's probably been done a lot of times before - but as I've said before, it's done in a slightly different way - and this week it had me glued to the seat for the whole 48 minutes and 3 seconds!  Lovely bit of acting from Lucinda Dryzek as the Stockholm Syndrome girl manipulated by her so-called boyfriend to hold her mother to ransom.  But this week, I think the acting crown has to go to Andrew Knott (Rob) who held the main part of the plot.  His sub plot continues - although not a great deal this week as he's mainly holed up in a bank with a load of semtex!  A very very close second, however, is our very own Georgia with some good action scenes this week.  The scene where she has to retrieve the bugging devices was excellent and (although it was written) very well acted by Georgia!  I did laugh out loud at the bumbling girl falling in the door.  Excellent!

The character of Charlie this week seems to have gone a little less cardboard-like (must have read what I said last week!) and Liam Boyle did a good turn as the IT Geek geek "breaking in" to Winsmere Camp to question the scientist prisoner Abid Malik (Philip Arditti) and discovering the second bomb plot.  Incidentally it's implied that MI5 had a hand in that too.  Can't wait to see how that pans out next week.

The rest of the cast also did a sterling job - it seems that Ruta Gedmintas (with her "overly plump bottom lip" as reported in one review this week) gets to do all the co-ordinating!  Nice to see Eva Pope in the supporting cast too.

If I have a gripe this week (I seem to have one in every episode!) it's nothing to do with story or actors!  Being an IT geek myself (for my sins), my one comment this week would be that the wireless router that the CCTV was connected to (so gracefully disconnected by Kylie) was a bog-standard Netgear router that had no power supply plugged in!  And lets not mention the "interference" caused by the virus.  No, I said not to mention it.

Oh - and no nightclub scene this week (breaths sigh of relief!) 

Can't wait until Episode 6!!