Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

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(11-11-2010 03:29 PM)tastiger Wrote:  Question: Are the writers for Spooks different for every series? I've never noticed the screenplay credits, just enjoyed every series since the beginning. Just wondering since series 9 and in particular the dark, villain side of Lucas is such a departure to all the other MI-5 leaders.

Most of series 9 were written by new writers for the show.

It seems more like Spooks transitions its writers, but for the most part, the same group of writers wrote episodes from Series 1 to Series 5, more writing staff changes occurred with Series 6, 7, and 8, and if I believe only one of the episodes was written by a writer who wrote in previous series, all other writers from Series 9 were new to writing the show.

(11-11-2010 03:29 PM)tastiger Wrote:  I thought the scene with Lucas & Maya driving away while the MI-5 team was shooting at them really quite unbelievable. Why didn't they follow Lucas' car...???? Didn't the MI-5 team have their own transportation? So even Lucas knows they aren't following him since he's yelling to Maya that they made it...Maya is dead, MI-5 let him just drive off, and Lucas has his meeting with the Chinese......Did I miss something from that scene? Since I refuse to re-watch this episode I'm counting on anyone who can make some sense out of this.

They were tracking Maya and trying to follow Lucas, but Tariq said that back-up was 11 minutes away with C0-19 and air support so that would have been too late as by then Lucas and Maya would have been gone since the Chinese had their escape route ready.

At least this is from what I can understand. This whole plot is still very unreal for me.

I only re-watched the episodes because the acting was so amazing.