SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD/ MI-5
UK, 2015, 104 minutes, Colour.
Peter Firth, Kit Harrington, Tuppence Middleton, Elliot Leavey, Matthew Walker, Elyes Gabel, David Harewood, Jennifer Ehle, Tim Mc Inerney, Lara Pulver.
1. The popularity of TV series? This plot for a full-length film? The return of the members of the cast?
2. Title, with the slang, the American title, MI-5? Public knowledge of the spy organisation? Spies, agents, infiltration surveillance, terror situations, arrests, set-ups?
3. The London settings, in great detail? Whitehall, MI5, Shaftesbury Avenue and the theatres, Southwark, Brixton market? Moscow? Berlin, Alexanderplatz? The Kent coast? The British atmosphere? International? The musical score?
4. The introduction to Qasim, prisoner in the van, the traffic hold-up, communications amongst the officials, Harry supervising on the spot, Oliver and his presence, Geraldine and her assistant? The driver of the van, June in the van? The bikes, the surveillance, the helicopter, Harry and his decision, freeing Qasim, the pursuit and the death of the agent? The effect on June?
5. Harry, making the decision to let Qasim go? His visit to the grave, conversation with the spy who had infiltrated – and her later being captured, tortured, Harry to hold the gun unwillingly, pulling the trigger? Qasim’s reaction an agreement to the deal? Harry on the Bridge, the camera times and inconsistency? On the Kent coast, with Qasim, discussions, the deal, Harry wanting to know who was the official undermining the Department?
6. Espionage, MI5 and a weaker Britain, the American reaction, the officials, Oliver and his patriotism, Francis and his impatience?
7. Russia, Will Holloway, his being collected, Moscow and the agents, the story of his past, Harry dismissing him, the new mission, Harry calling him, Oliver using the hold over Holloway and the death of his father?
8. Will Holloway, his character, age, father, espionage, work in Moscow? Contact with Harry, following the leads, the clues, the spies following him, his communicating with them? Heathrow, the other terminal, the security check on Will and Harry leaving?
9. Francis, the concert in Shaftesbury Avenue, performance, Francis talking to the bomber, is being challenged, the explosion and his death?
10. Qasim and his plan, the factory, making the explosives, the targets in London, his motivation, his wife, pregnant?
11. Harry, his plan, going to Berlin, Alexanderplatz, contacts, to get the wife for the exchange, Will and June finding him, her explanations, part of the plan?
12. June, Will going to see her, the information, going to the flat of the controller, the incriminating document in the rubbish, shooting him? Later revealing that she was under orders?
13. Qasim, his wife, pregnant, dead? The phone calls, standing on Waterloo Bridge, facing South? Harry and the official disguised as the wife? The sniper? Phone calls? The turning around, being shot, the vest? Will confronting the sniper, his fall to his death?
14. The information, the raid on the factory, the arrests?
15. Qasim, coming into MI5, the locked rooms, the confrontation, Will and June and their hiding? Harry, the interrogation, his giving the information to Will? Qasim getting in, asking questions, shooting Geraldine’s assistant?
16. The debriefing, the identification of the traitors, those who were loyal?
17. Geraldine, in the country, her niece, Harry confronting her, the talk about the escape through the poison, the description of the poison, her not feeling well, having taken the poison unwittingly, the mystified look, her death?
18. Harry, succeeding, Will, Harry giving him his father’s ring and telling him the story?
