In series three, CI5 is targeted by a series of bombings and assassination attempts, the team investigates the murder of a defector, and Bodie and Doyle begin to suspect that their boss is selling weapons to the East Germans.

8 Episodes

  • The Purging of CI5
    E1
    The Purging of CI5CI5 and their agents find themselves under attack from a vendetta of bombings and assassination attempts. Bodie and Doyle are on a chase to find out who the perpetrators are before they end up as the next victims.
  • Backtrack
    E2
    BacktrackIt's just another routine house break-in for a cat burglar, until he accidentally uncovers a complex drugs smuggling operation. When CI5 step in, they realise it's not just the burglar's life that is now in danger.
  • Stopover
    E3
    StopoverCowley is offered the name of a highly-placed double agent from an old colleague - who in return wants to be guaranteed protection with CI5. This leads to the start of a dangerous stand-off between the two, using Bodie and Doyle as the pawns.
  • Dead Reckoning
    E4
    Dead ReckoningA spy is extradited to Britain with an attempt to keep his arrival top-secret. However, the Bulgarians from Batak's homeland who sent him appear to be trying to make his movements as public as possible. When he is eventually murdered, CI5 suspect his music student daughter of poisoning him.
  • The Madness of Mickey Hamilton
    E5
    The Madness of Mickey HamiltonYears after a man's wife died and his child left brain-damaged following a series of blunders at the hospital they were treated at, he returns to finally seek revenge by systematically assassinating each of the same hospital's medical staff one-by-one.
  • A Hiding to Nothing
    E6
    A Hiding to NothingPalestinian leader Khadi is due in London for important and secret peace talks but his arrival has been leaked and a woman terrorist is shot whilst filming the talks' rehearsal. CI5 link up with ministerial secretary Frances Cottingham, who innocently leaked news of Khadi's visit to her boyfriend, who is not whom he says. Cowley gets her to give him false information but is he really the assassin?
  • Runner
    E7
    RunnerA gun shop is raided but the guns are junked. It is part of a plot by a man named Duffy, a member of the political terrorist group the Organization to discredit the main body of the group, who have now formed a truce with CI5. He is also out for revenge on Doyle, who killed his brother, and lures him into a trap, as well as planting a bomb in a public car park.
  • Servant of Two Masters
    E8
    Servant of Two MastersBodie and Doyle are shocked to discover that Cowley appears to be selling nerve gas to a group of East Germans in order to line his own pockets, and are assigned by his rival Plumb to track their boss's every move.
  • Lewis CollinsBodie
  • Martin ShawDoyle
  • Gordon JacksonGeorge Cowley
  • Brian ClemensExecutive Producer
  • Albert FennellExecutive Producer
  • Laurie JohnsonOriginal Music Composer

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