KUED Program Guide

The Seventh Division
A much-respected journalist and author is assassinated in his office. When M15 learns that he was investigating crimes against human rights in Colombia, the killing ties in with information received that a leading Colombian sicario (paramilitary) may be setting up in London. Rafa Morientes has a reputation for savagery and specialises in the murder of human rights activists and trade unionists. He has come to the UK in order to establish himself as the head of a terrorist network called the Seventh Division. MI5 discovers a connection between Rafa and the Director of Finance at Petrex, the UK’s biggest oil corporation. Could Rafa be using Petrex to attempt a coup d’état within a British company? If he is successful, it would pass control into the hands of men who will use it as a clearing house for drugs and terrorism, and harness its enormous power to control politicians across Europe and the globe… Morientes has to be stopped.

Episode #: 115G
Length: 59 minutes, 37 seconds.

English, Widescreen

Smoke and Mirrors
Tom received a tip-off from Christine Dale. She'd accidentally got hold of information that a known American assassin had been sent to Britain by the Iraqis. Apparently the CIA were determined not to let MI5 know, but she felt if there was a risk of the assassination of a major British figure then Tom ought to know. But he mustn't tell anyone else. He secretly talked Zoe and Danny into helping him. Zoe was immediately uncomfortable with keeping secrets from Harry. Zoe and Danny began to suspect that Tom had gone bad.Tom managed to win a last bit of trust out of Zoe and Danny and they followed a trail of evidence to a deserted farm in Suffolk.There they were ambushed and chained up. Danny and Zoe were drugged, and when they woke Tom was gone.The rushed back to the office and told Harry everything. Meanwhile, Tom was tricked into putting his fingerprints on a gun. By the time Tom had come to and rushed to the nearest house to phone the office, warning them there was a planned assassination and his fingerprints would be on the gun, it was too late. The assassination had already taken place, and the team were convinced Tom was to blame. He was desperate to prove he'd been set-up and persuaded Harry,Tom and Zoe to come and meet him. The set-up had been too good. There was no way he could persuade any of the team of his innocence.Tom was cornered and as Harry threatened to call in back-up,Tom took the only way out. He shot Harry and ran.When he reached the beach he just kept going, and swam out to sea and an uncertain future.

Episode #: 116G
Length: 1 hour 12 seconds.

English, Widescreen

Project Friendly Fire
Tom Quinn has been accused of assassinating the Chief of The Defence Staff, is guilty of shooting his superior Harry Pearce and has disappeared. When Oliver Mace, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, hears of this he seizes his opportunity to take control of Britain’s homeland intelligence service. With the Prime Minister’ s backing he launches an investigation into MI5, the aim being to uncover the rot at its core and take over. Danny, Zoe and the rest of the team, under intense watch, manage to skip surveillance and meet to discuss what to do. They must inform Harry, who is appalled to learn of this “conspiracy, in the darker corners of Government” and their crass intention to “modernise the intelligence services”. When Harry’s contacted by Tom Quinn he tells him that MI5’s only hope of survival is to prove that Tom was innocent. A few hours later the body of a dead man - the man who Tom claimed set him up -turns up on the steps of Thames House. Is this proof enough that Tom was innocent? Mace doesn’t think so. So the battle for control continues. Can Tom and the team prove he’s innocent and save the service?

Episode #: 117G
Length: 59 minutes, 36 seconds.

English, Widescreen

The Sleeper
Harry reawakens a sleeper: Fred Roberts, renowned chemical engineer, Nobel Prize winner and happy family man sold his soul to MI5 over twenty years ago in return for a helping hand on the career ladder. Over the years this pact has become nothing more than a faded memory, but the time has come for Fred to repay his debt. Harry and the team are running Operation Flytrap - they want to spread the lie that Fred has made Red Mercury, a lethal trigger for a nuclear explosion, in order to attract terrorist groups. But at what cost to this man’s life? When Tom begins to fear for Fred who is successfully being seduced by MI5 and the grand idea of helping protect the nation, he takes a moral stance that puts the whole operation in jeopardy. Can MI5 allow humanity to get in the way of its op? Tom is decommissioned by Harry and forced to leave the service. The operation, led by Adam, successfully traps a dangerous terrorist group the Aleph Command. Zoe meets Will, a freelance photographer. She falls for him and they fall into bed.

Episode #: 118G
Length: 59 minutes, 39 seconds.

English, Widescreen

Who Guards The Guards?
Danny, on Close Quarter Protection, is shaken when his charge, the controversial writer Zulifakir living in Britain under a fatwa, is shot at. Zulifakir survives but immediately sacks MI5, appalled at how they, especially Danny, could have allowed this to happen. It’s only on closer examination that Adam picks up on something crucial -the hitman missed his target, but almost hit the innocent Harakat. Would a hired gun man make this kind of mistake? Following through his hunch Adam tasks Danny to put Close Quarter Protection on Zuli’ s friend Harakat. Disgruntled Danny does so and soon Danny and Harakat develop a deep friendship. Meanwhile Zoe and the rest of the team track down the hit man to a house in East London. They watch and wait, but nothing. He doesn’t move an inch. When Harry receives a photo which shows Oliver Mace talking to the head of a Pakistani terror group a couple of years ago, MI5 are worried. Why were they meeting? And what were they talking about? Could this tell the team who the hitman was really aiming at?

Episode #: 119G
Length: 58 minutes, 17 seconds.

English, Widescreen