This is essentially a simple story that is complicated by convoluted Fiona's convoluted past shown in a back story. However, once again, despite reservations about the reality it makes for gripping viewing and has the kind of dramatic ending that Spooks has always been able to provide although on this occasion the death of a lead actor could have been guessed at due this series introduction of another female lead and the numerous times that Adam and Fiona's happy home life with their young son was shown. Either the son was going to get kidnapped or one of the parents was going to meet with tragedy.
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Syria
Prismark1028 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
We know Fiona Carter spent a lot of time in Syria. Here we get more of her backstory and precisely how she met and married Adam.
How Fiona left Syria still haunts her. Fiona's first husband Farook Sukkarieh was someone influential with the Syrian government and was hanged for treason. Apparently he was accused of spying for Israel.
Adam Carter was in Syria at the time targeting Sukkarieh and Fiona was his way in.
Now with news that the Syrian Foreign Minister is in London and unhappy with the course that his government has taken. He could become a friendly asset.
Fiona wants to take charge even though someone in the Foreign Minister's entourage could recognise her.
It seems at first Fiona is being naive. She is easily recognised and the Syrian's set a trap for her. However Fiona knows what she is doing and takes a risk. Her first husband might not had been killed.
Essentially this episode writes out Fiona Carter from Spooks. I think the fact the we see Adam and Fiona's son earlier on probably gave the game away.
Fiona's first husband really is a brute and she uses cunning to trick him. She really needed to be sharper if she did not want a bullet in her back.
How Fiona left Syria still haunts her. Fiona's first husband Farook Sukkarieh was someone influential with the Syrian government and was hanged for treason. Apparently he was accused of spying for Israel.
Adam Carter was in Syria at the time targeting Sukkarieh and Fiona was his way in.
Now with news that the Syrian Foreign Minister is in London and unhappy with the course that his government has taken. He could become a friendly asset.
Fiona wants to take charge even though someone in the Foreign Minister's entourage could recognise her.
It seems at first Fiona is being naive. She is easily recognised and the Syrian's set a trap for her. However Fiona knows what she is doing and takes a risk. Her first husband might not had been killed.
Essentially this episode writes out Fiona Carter from Spooks. I think the fact the we see Adam and Fiona's son earlier on probably gave the game away.
Fiona's first husband really is a brute and she uses cunning to trick him. She really needed to be sharper if she did not want a bullet in her back.
Suicide Mission
Johnny_West9 August 2022
Fiona (played by Olga Sosnovska) is a snobby shrill cold fish member of MI-5, the wife of Adam Carter. Everytime she is in a scene, I expect her to start selling facial creams to the MI-5 staff. She looks and acts like a superficial sales model, and has zero credibility as an MI-5 agent.
In flashbacks we discover that Fiona made contact with a friend she knew is Syria, and eventually it is revealed that her friend told her that her former husband was not dead, and had killed another mutual friend. This is the motive for Fiona to suddenly want to be the lead pointperson in an attempt to turn a Syrian diplomat into an MI-5 agent.
Very stupidly, Fiona does not tell anyone, including Adam, about her ex-husband Farook. She lies to MI-5 because she wants a chance to kill her ex-husband. Eventually she gets her chance, and it is lame. She follows the most evil bad guy to a meeting room, and waits for Farook. Since everyone knows who she is, when she tries to pull out her gun, the are guns on her already. Really pathetic that she got a Syrian diplomat killed, lied to her team, and then accomplished nothing.
The rest of the story is the predictable rescue by Adam, which results in some good gunplay, and deaths. One glaring issue is that the main and most evil intelligence officer disappeared to allow Adam, Fiona, and Farook to shoot it out. He was standing a few feet from Farook, and should have joined in the gunfight, and killed Adam Carter or at least taken some shots at him. Later he meekly gives up his gun when the MI-5 back-up arrives, a few minutes after the gunfight.
The MI-5 show has some decent action, but when it gets to complicated choreography of gunfights this is not the first time that combatants disappear. Apparently either the stunt coordinator or the camera-people or both were not competent to film anything beyond 3 people in a gunfight.
In flashbacks we discover that Fiona made contact with a friend she knew is Syria, and eventually it is revealed that her friend told her that her former husband was not dead, and had killed another mutual friend. This is the motive for Fiona to suddenly want to be the lead pointperson in an attempt to turn a Syrian diplomat into an MI-5 agent.
Very stupidly, Fiona does not tell anyone, including Adam, about her ex-husband Farook. She lies to MI-5 because she wants a chance to kill her ex-husband. Eventually she gets her chance, and it is lame. She follows the most evil bad guy to a meeting room, and waits for Farook. Since everyone knows who she is, when she tries to pull out her gun, the are guns on her already. Really pathetic that she got a Syrian diplomat killed, lied to her team, and then accomplished nothing.
The rest of the story is the predictable rescue by Adam, which results in some good gunplay, and deaths. One glaring issue is that the main and most evil intelligence officer disappeared to allow Adam, Fiona, and Farook to shoot it out. He was standing a few feet from Farook, and should have joined in the gunfight, and killed Adam Carter or at least taken some shots at him. Later he meekly gives up his gun when the MI-5 back-up arrives, a few minutes after the gunfight.
The MI-5 show has some decent action, but when it gets to complicated choreography of gunfights this is not the first time that combatants disappear. Apparently either the stunt coordinator or the camera-people or both were not competent to film anything beyond 3 people in a gunfight.
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