Unbelievable. Just caught up with this week's episode and lo and behold they're at it again.
You say this as if every episode has the same plot and that you are resigned to that.
Last series
65 1 "Episode 1"
Alrick Riley Story: Zinnie Harris & Ben Richards
Teleplay: Ben Richards 6.55 4 November 2009 (BBC One)
Harry is brought to a group of Indian intelligence officers diguised as terror group, the Sacred Army of Righteous Vengeance. They release fake footage of his execution. Section D uncovers the deceptions and resorts to find Harry. Group leader Amish Mani is keeping Harry alive to divulge the location of a uranium shipment Harry stopped before the CIA and MI6 planted it in Iraq to justify the war. The group also target Ruth Evershed, who is in Cyprus. After returning to London, she is kidnapped also. Lucas and Ros track an MI6 and CIA agent, who was part of the uranium planting plan. After the MI6 agent is killed, they track the CIA agent to the warehouse they held Harry and Ruth, and Lucas kills the leader. After Malcolm succeeds in saving Ruth's stepson, and Harry returns to the Grid, Malcolm retires.
66 2 "Episode 2" Alrick Riley Story: Zinnie Harris & Ben Richards
Teleplay: Ben Richards 5.11 6 November 2009 (BBC Three)[n 4]
When a gas processing plant explodes, the UK allies itself with Tuzbekistan to buy their gas at reasonable prices. However, the negotiation leader is stalling. Malcolm's replacement, Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif) figures out the negotiator is planning to strike against his own country. Jo uses the sister of a woman who the negotiator raped to kill him. However, the actions are disrupted by the Russians, which end the negotiations, though the Russians are willing to sell the UK the gas at the same price in exchange for intelligence to be used against Tusbekistan. In the end, Blake informs Harry of a top secret meeting that took place in Basel, Switzerland regarding a new world order, codenamed "Nightingale".
67 3 "Episode 3" Sam Miller Christian Spurrier & Sean Reilly
5.26 13 November 2009 (BBC Three)
While Ros is undercover in a secret meeting of a Bilderberg Group-like set of businessmen, armed terrorists seize the meeting and take the hostages to an underground bunker to prevent MI5 from releasing them. The terrorists put the businessmen on "trial" for their abuses in power. Jo attempts to stop the incident, and holds the leader before he could detonate C4 so Ros can take a shot. However, because Jo right behind him, the bullet passes through him, and into her, killing them both.
68 4 "Episode 4"
Sam Miller David Farr 5.18 20 November 2009 (BBC Three)
Lucas's interrogator, Darshavin escapes from an immigration centre and demands to speak with Lucas regarding a terrorist attack from Sudanese terrorists with the complicity of the FSB. Harry displays doubts, believing Lucas developed Stockholm Syndrome from his capture. Lucas goes off-piste to get the target, but fails when his CIA girlfriend, Sarah Caufield (Genevieve O'Reilly) interrupts. In the end, MI5 discovers the location from an asset and prevents the attack. In the end, Darshavin is taken to the FSB. Sarah reveals herself to be part of "Nightingale", by killing her boss, Samuel Walker.
69 5 "Episode 5" Alrick Riley Richard McBrien 4.39 27 November 2009 (BBC Three)
Two officers are found murdered. Eventually, it is revealed Ros's mentor, Jack Colville, is responsible. He was able to access MI5 records, and tracks down the other officers responsible. After Ros and Lucas fail to save the next target, they realise they are connected to a Balkans operation responsible for the death of Colville's girlfriend. Ros fools him into thinking she sanctioned her death, and after a showdown between the two, he kills himself realising it is the system, not the officers, at fault. In the end, Lucas discovers that Sarah murdered Walker.
70 6 "Episode 6" Edward Hall Dennis Kelly
5.11 4 December 2009 (BBC Three)
A team of assassins from a corrupt bank targets an employee who has access to several accounts the British Government needs to make interest payments, otherwise the UK economy will collapse. While Ros finds him, her mental state is in question after the loss of Jo. She eventually finds the elusive man, who reluctantly gives them the accounts. Meanwhile, Lucas confronts Sarah about her involvement in Basel. She escapes before explaining anything. After the payments are made, Blake is forced to resign after forged evidence places him in a scandal. Tariq discovers that the money involved in Basel has disappeared to Pakistan.
71 7 "Episode 7" Edward Hall James Dormer
N/A[n 5]
11 December 2009 (BBC Three)
After a Pakistani intelligence officer is murdered, Section D learn of a radical Hindu group preparing to attack Muslims in London. Lucas appoints a 17 year old Muslim for help. Eventually it is revealed that the cell's handler is running a Muslim cell to attack Hindus, with the intention of pitting both groups against each other. While CO-19 officers stop the Muslim cell, Lucas stops the Hindu cell, who have taken a Muslim school hostage. In the end, Section D learns that Nightingale is using this to provoke India and Pakistan into war.
72 8 "Episode 8"
Alrick Riley Ben Richards 5.91 23 December 2009 (BBC One)
Section D has a week to stop a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan when the latter takes an Indian submarine, as well as uncover the Nightingale plot and stop it. After Sarah returns, Lucas eventually captures her, though before Nightingale has her assassinated, she admits to setting up the war to contain the future where the Taliban may take over Pakistan. They also learn that the new CIA liaison is also a Nightingale operative. Believing the war might not happen, Nightingale has planted a bomb in the same hotel the Pakistani President and the new Home Secretary, Andrew Lawrence, are staying. When Ros and Lucas find the two, they discover that Nightingale paralysed them. Lucas evacuates the President, who later recovers and orders the release of the submarine. However, Ros fails to evacuate Lawrence in time, and the hotel blows up.
This series
73 1 "Episode 1" Paul Whittington
Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent
6.74 20 September 2010
At Ros's funeral, Harry proposes to Ruth, who turns him down. She produces evidence that former Home Secretary Blake worked with Nightingale and ordered the hotel bombing. Harry, shattered by the news, visits Blake in his Scottish home and poisons his drink with a substance that makes it appear the politician has had a heart attack. One month later, Lucas boards a freighter in Tangier to assassinate Somaliterrorist Hussein Abib (Peter Bankole). Before he is able to complete his mission, the ship is hijacked by soldiers working for Abib. Dimitri Levendes (Max Brown), an agent posing as captain of the ship, discovers Abib has loaded the ship with explosives, with the apparent intent of sailing the ship into Plymouth, where a new aircraft-carrier is about to be launched. With the help of private contractor Beth Bailey (Sophia Myles), who has been masquerading as an Eastern European passenger, Lucas escapes the ship. Dimitri kills Abib, but discovers that the explosives are gone. It is discovered that the terrorists are using submersibles to send the bombs up the River Thames to the Houses of Parliament. Discovering that "Talwar", Abib's contact in the UK, is a teenage girl, Lucas tries to force her to abort the mission by threatening to kill her parents. When the threat fails, Harry approves the launch of an EMP bomb underneath the Houses, which disables the subs before they reach their target. In the end, Beth successfully applies to join the MI5 team, while Lucas is paid an unexpected visit with Vaughn, who leaves him with a briefcase.
74 2 "Episode 2" Michael Caton-Jones
David Farr 6.27 27 September 2010
In her first operation, Beth is tasked with protecting an influential oil baron, Robert Westhouse, after receiving intelligence that he may be assassinated by Nigerian agents. In a London hotel, potential oil industry contacts, including an undercover Beth, are the subject of a gun attack in the lift to Westhouse's penthouse suite. Beth and another contact, Chapman, survive unharmed. Lucas, investigating the incident, becomes suspicious, particularly about Beth's role. The narrative switches to a dual perspective of events from the points of view of Lucas, and then Beth. It becomes clear that that the Nigerians want Westhouse dead, because he plans to launch a chemical weapon attack against Lagos and start a coup in order to steal the country's oil reserves. Beth appears to work with Chapman, the assassin, but Lucas and section D also discover that; however Beth successfully explains her subterfuge as "the way we used to work", and avoids any damage. Meanwhile, Harry Pearce takes Westhouse on, face to face, and leaves him with a no-win situation. Lucas gives Beth another chance after he is promoted to Section D chief. Meanwhile, he looks into the briefcase he has been given by Vaughn and finds Maya Lahan (Laila Rouass), his first love. However, she does not want to be involved with him after he left her 15 years earlier.
75 3 "Episode 3" Michael Caton-Jones Richard McBrien 6.04 4 October 2010
Section D are forced to take an FSB officer, Viktor Barenshik, onto the Grid to track down Aibek, a rogue nationalist from Azakstan, who is looking for a nerve agent known as Paroxocybin. While following Aibek across London, it is revealed one of the original scientists of the agent before its destruction kept a sample. It is also revealed Viktor wants to take the agent to the Russians in order to justify their invasion of Azakstan. When Section D discover this, they give Aibek a deal to blackmail Viktor. Beth later kills him, and Tariq forges the video as if it was Aibek that had done and got away from the building. Meanwhile, Vaughn approaches Lucas asking him for an MI5 file named "Albany".
76 4 "Episode 4" Paul Whittington Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent 5.22[38]
11 October 2010
A trio of highly skilled Chinese agents arrive in the UK to kidnap and assassinate Dr. Jiang, a scientist developing revolutionary desalination technology. Kai, an asset from the Chinese embassy, informs them of a bomb in the same building Jiang is working in, but it is later revealed to be a set-up to kidnap Jiang. After finding her, the head of Chinese intelligence informs Harry that if they do not hand in Jiang back to the Chinese, they will detonate a bomb. Dimitri finds the bomb and disarms it, and Jiang is transferred to the CIA. Lucas delivers the Albany file to Vaughn; believing he is free from him, he and Maya restart their relationship. Although reported to have left the UK, the Chinese agents reveal that their mission is in fact to track Lucas for undisclosed reasons.
77 5 "Episode 5" Julian Holmes Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent & Oliver Brown
5.34[39]
18 October 2010
While Beth and Dimitri go undercover during the US President's visit to chair top secret peace talks between Israel and Palestine, a plot to assassinate him is uncovered. Belieiving it is the work of Lebanesemilitant Muatt Hutri, the section are able to arrest him, but he convinces them he is in London to stop it. It is revealed the actual assassin, Baltasar Jad is attempting to perform an impossible shot from a building a mile and a half away to take out the president. Lucas arrives and kills Jad, but it is later discovered the sniper is a diversion. The actual assassin is Israeli Anna Cohen, who plans to blow herself up with the president as revenge for her father deserting him when she was once captured by Palestinians. Her father and Dimitri are able to talk her out of doing it. In the end, Lucas realises Vaughn has no intention of leaving him alone.
78 6 "Episode 6" Julian Holmes[40]
Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent[40]
25 October 2010[41]
Head of CIA London Alton Beecher (Colin Salmon) oversees the installation of an advanced US cybersecurity system in the Grid, after an American drone is hacked in Afghanistan.[40]
So, in the last 2 series there is one episode covering an Israeli terrorist and even then all the other Israelis were good guys.
This time I don't think you actually have a valid point although I await being corrected.
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) get sent out to script writers encouraging them to demonise the Jews, with bonuses for anyone writing a hero Muslim character?
