EPISODE GUIDE TO SEASON ONE


Broadcast BBC TV 1995



Episode 1: Out of the Hive

SACROS is a box of circuits that can control or cripple satellite communications. It's secure in a government base known as the Hive. But someone will stop at nothing to obtain it. And Nick Beckett is sure there's a traitor in the Hive. Beckett is framed. He almost loses his life. He meets Ros, who run a high-tech gadgets company called Gizmos, and her friend Ed, who positively enjoys taking life-threatening risks. And together they hunt the villains.

Episode 2: Assassins Inc.

The Bugs team is formed, and is immediately drawn into the vicious world of miniaturised weapons and customised viruses - one of which infects Ed. It's a race against time as Ros hacks into the computers of Cyberscope while Beckett chases a consignment of microbes that could exterminate the human race.

Episode 3: All Under Control

These days airlines almost fly themselves. When an untraceable influence takes temporary control of a plane's flight system and almost crashes it, computer failure is suspected. The arrival of a demand for £50 million makes sabotage seem more likely - and the Bugs team is called in.

Episode 4: Down Among The Dead Men

Meanwhile an even larger amount of money is about to be stolen from the international banking system in a fraud that involves an ex-banker, his murderous wife, computerised financial transactions - and an obsolete submarine.

Episode 5: Shotgun Wedding

Anna Fabrizi is a new force in Italian politics: a popular crusader against corruption and crime. There are people who will stop at nothing to destroy her. As they protect Anna from assassins' bullets and smart explosive devices, the Bugs team become enmeshed in a web of double-crossing plots - and Ed is turned into a living bomb.

Episode 6: Stealth

An even bigger bang threatens all three of the team when they are hired to protect the technological secrets of a new supercar - and they end up trapped in an unstoppable armoured vehicle with a nuclear power plant that's wired to explode.

Episode 7: Manna From Heaven

Phodex is the food of the future: cheap, easy to produce, and infinitely adaptable, it will banish famine forever. Its mutated form, on the other hand, is fatally toxic. The Bugs team is called in to protect the Phodex plant, but very soon Ros, Ed and Beckett are all that stand between mankind and extinction by poisoning. And Ros is already infected.

Episode 8: Hot Metal

A new superconducting metal, R6, is found to have explosive properties that make it the perfect assessin's weapon. When a batch of the material is stolen Ros and Beckett hunt the thieves. Ed tracks down the missing metal - but gets tied up and has to hang around until the unstable substance detonates.

Episode 9: A Sporting Chance

Tri-Meserone: a new drug that allows athletes to surpass all previous record-breaking levels of performance, without exhaustion or pain. And it's undetectable - apart from the side-effects. The Bugs team is called in when several of a gym's best sportsmen have suddenly collapsed; they uncover a plot to create an army of supermen. Ros is forced to run for her life, and Ed and Beckett are blown up.

Episode 10: Pulse

Pulse weapons don't kill; they wipe computer memory. A criminal genius could become the wealthiest man in the world if he owned the small companies that make pulse bomb components and which would grow were the data banks of the world's multinational corporations to crash simultaneously. Ros launches a missile; Beckett's a prisoner in a playpen; Ed's trying to save an eight-year-old computer game prodigy. Can they possibly stop the criminal masterplan?


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