The first recording today starts with the end of Stupid.
There’s a trail for Serious Ocean.
There’s also a trail for Trapped.
Then it’s a new episode of SMart. Today’s guest is Rani from Best of Friends.
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Mike and Kirsten draw a picture with single unbroken lines.
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Mike and Rani make a Spin Painting inspired by Damien Hirst.
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Two Kirstens find a parachute landing area.
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One of them goes parachute jumping.
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While the other paints a picture of a parachute jump.
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The challenge uses washing up bottles. Kirsten makes a superhero.
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Mike makes a Puffer Fish.
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Rani makes a tree.
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Webcam Training is drawing a plane.
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Art from Around the World draws inspiration from Russia today.
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They make some Faberge Eggs.
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PHart does some photos with album art.
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Kirsten makes a digital spaceman.
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Mike and Rani make a weathervane.
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Kirsten paints a bullfrog.
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The floor painting is a mermaid.
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Media Centre Description: It’s your Sunday morning SMart masterclass with Kirsten O’Brien & Mike Fischetti. Best of Friends’ Rani Price is today’s guest, and between them they make a jumbo jet, a weather vane and three different things with a washing-up liquid bottle!
Recorded from BBC TWO on Sunday 7th September 2008 08:58
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Sunday 7th September 2008 09:00
After this there’s a trail for Amazon, and for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Also a trail for Charley Boorman: Ireland to Sydney By Any Means. Then the recording ends with the start of Something for the Weekend.
The other recording today starts with the end of Don’t Tell the Bride.
There’s 60 Seconds of sports news.
Plus a new trail for The Wrong Door.
Then we have the thrilling finale of Spooks: Code 9 (although the Media Centre description for this recording is actually for the previous episode). Let’s hope they stick the landing.
It opens with a flashback to 2012, and we get glimpses of something which is never actually identified as being the Olympics even though that’s obviously what it is. It looks terrible, which is probably what everyone was expecting it to look like right up until the actual opening ceremony, so fair play.
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We see Abdi Malik trying to phone someone and not getting through, then he gets in his car and leaves London. The radio he’s listening to suddenly turns to static, and a lot of cars have stopped in front of him, so he gets out to see the cloud over London. Strictly speaking, there ought to have been a very bright flash too but we didn’t get that.
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Back to the present, and it’s a couple of days to the first anniversary of the bombing, so the news is reporting preparations which look more like a jubilee. Why, even in 2008, were TV programmes still adding this ridiculous line filter over footage to imply TV when HD TV had been around for a good few years now, and even it they weren’t, this looks worse than 405 lines. It always annoys me.
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Charlie and Rachel finally tell the rest of the team what they’ve found out so far about the MI5 involvement in the bombing, and now the revelation that Malik built two bombs, so a second bombing is likely to happen soon.
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Their only hope is to get more information out of Malik, which will be difficult because he’s in Camp Windsmere, the tippity-top security detention camp. So a plan is hatched to send Vik in there by getting him arrested as a terrorist (good thing there’s no due process in this world) to spring Malik. From the most secure prison in Britain. Rob pulls out one of his molars to replace it with one containing a pellet that will simulate a coma.
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Rachel quizzes Rob about the case of his student friend who committed suicide, but whom a policeman seems to believe Rob might have had something to do with killing. He denies it again. I’m really looking forward to finally finding out whatever his big secret is. And Rachel’s distrust must be really upsetting him, given he’s in love with her.
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Vik is soon picked up by the security forces, and into Camp Windsmere with the swiftest of montages.
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Kylie’s job is to pick up the Windsmere prison doctor and put him out of action so that Rob can take over. She almost blows it when it turns out he’s gay, but luckily he’s a huge smackhead so her offer of drugs gets her into his flat, and him on the floor out cold.
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Vik attacks Malik in the exercise yard, and is tased for his trouble. They’re both taken to cells. Malik needs his leg examining so he’s taken to see the doctor – who’s Rob, posing as the relief doctor. Vik takes the pill in his tooth, and when the guards finally take notice, he’s taken there too.
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Rob gets most of the guards out of the examining room, but one of them stays, so he asks from help, fires up the defibrillator, then zaps the poor man’s head.
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Rob gives Malik blood capsules to make sure it looks like a real emergency.
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Amazingly, this whole plan works flawlessly, and they’re out in about seven minutes of screen time.
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Yates has realised that Charlie was responsible for breaking Malik out, so he has to tell her about Hannah’s message and the second bomb. He tells her that there’s a blurred photo of Malik’s MI5 handler on a camera at his sister’s house in London which might give them a lead. “Charlie, I chose you as field office leader for a reason. You’re the best I have and I can’t lose you. Just be careful. If what you’re saying is true, I’ll make sure this goes no further.”
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They’re in my neck of the woods as they head towards London.
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They find Malik’s sister’s house, and it doesn’t take them long to find the camera with the photo of the handler on it, despite them moving in slow motion for some reason just because they’re in hazmat suits. Do they think they’re faking a moon landing or something?
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Someone else has a hazmat suit there, and shoots at them as they leave, but they shoot him dead. They infer that someone who knew about this plan told the bad spies. Is someone in the team a rat?
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Rachel gets a call from Yates. “You can’t let anyone know I’m talking to you. Charlie and Rob are under attack. Someone on your own team has betrayed you. I’m sending you coordinates for a meeting point. You must not be followed. Lose your mobile or they’ll trace it. Trust no one.”
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Nice to see MI5 have their own software for cleaning up images. Enhance!
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Malik’s image of his handler shows a familiar face. To nobody’s surprise, it’s Yates.
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Charlie tells the rest of team about Yates and gets them to start looking at every project she’s been in charge of, for clues where the bomb might be. But Rachel has already left the building with Malik and gone to the location Yates gave her. Malik doesn’t last long as Yates just shoots him.
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Before Yates can shoot her, Rachel spikes Yates with a “Liquid location tracker” which is definitely a real thing that exists, honest. But Yates shoots her in the stomach.
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The Prime Minister is starting his address to the nation, in Union Square, which is where the team think Yates’s people have put the bomb, probably in the sewers.
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Yates monologues about her road to Damascus, but in typically vague and unspecific terms. “These people. That’s the phrase we used to use. What’s wrong with these people? There was one man. He didn’t need to be broken. He just spoke. Four. Five hours. Maybe more. About how corrupt our society is. Broken. How people like me just accept it and become part of the mechanism.” “Please help me.” “I am trying to help you. I am trying to help you understand what it was like to have someone explain so clearly all these little doubts that have been eating away at you. I believed in what he said.” Who was this speaker of truth? Derren Brown?
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Charlie and Rob have been able to find her thanks to the liquid tracker, but she doesn’t want to come quietly and kills herself, fairly tastefully as these things go.
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Rob tries to help Rachel. Her injury is very serious, and he needs to do CPR.
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Kylie and Jez have found the bomb, right under the Prime Minister’s speech, and the bomb disposal team are busy cutting wires.
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Maybe now Rob will confess his shady past in an emotional scene with Charlie as they save Rachel’s life, and the disposal team will stop the timer on the count of 9 to tie in with the show’s name and… Why has it gone to a negative freeze frame? Why are the credits rolling? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
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There’s no ending. No ending at all. This series has been clumsily setting up storylines, and now it just… finishes? Did they seriously expect a second series? Does BBC Three think it’s Netflix? I’ve not been particularly enjoying this show, but I did at least think we’d get some kind of resolution to what little ongoing story they had. But no. This show has almost zero in common with the original Spooks – no continuity at all, just MI5. They blew up Thames House before the first episode started. And the one element of the proper Spooks they decided to go with was a massively dramatic series finale with a cliffhanger. Well, a semi-dramatic finale. But in Spooks it worked because the show came back. This show did not get a second series, which doesn’t surprise me. But what massive hubris on the part of the creative team to end like this.
This is almost as bad as the ending of Quantum Leap. Almost. The main difference being, I cared about the characters in Quantum Leap.
Media Centre Description: Drama series set in 2013 and centred around a northern-based MI5 team. A bank heist by eco terrorists, involving a 16-year-old suicide bomber, leads the team to uncover a secret deal between the British government and a Korean billionaire. Will the team be able to free the hostages and stop the terrorists from completing their deadly mission? Charlie speaks to the British scientist wrongly imprisoned for the London attack and discovers there may be a second nuclear bomb.
Recorded from BBC THREE on Sunday 7th September 2008 20:58
BBC Genome: BBC THREE Sunday 7th September 2008 21:00
After this, there’s a trail for Don’t Tell The Bride and for World’s Strictest Parents which looks like another programme that would annoy me.
Then the recording ends with the start of Family Guy.