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* [[Bottle Episode]]: notably, "I Spy Apocalypse" and "Diana", both based nearly entirely on the grid.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Oh, Jo. Poor, ''poor'' Jo.
* [[Broken Ace]]: Tom Quinn. As described by Harry, "one of the best and the brightest." Relied upon by everyone. The team leader. Until, of course {{spoiler|[[Married to The Job|his all-consuming job]] [[Break the Cutie|destroyed him emotionally and mentally]], [[Secret Identity Identity|breaking down his ability to determine morality]], and [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|eventually made him a liability and he had to be decommissioned.]] }} Considering [[Butt Monkey|what he went through]], the outcome [[I Knew It!|isn't really very surprising]]. {{spoiler|He reappears briefly in the finale, where it seems he's become an assassin, sent by Harry to take out the man behind Elena's plot}}
** Adam Carter, his replacement, went almost as spectacularly off the deep end after {{spoiler|the death of his wife}}.
** And finally, {{spoiler|Harry himself in the finale.}}
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** A common example is to use terminology that was accurate at one point but is now outdated, perhaps due to issues with classified information. For example, the Alternative Seat of Government base under the Cotswolds is known as "TURNSTILE" in the series, that code name being one used some time in the past (and in any case the base has been decommissioned since 2004).
*** To be fair, the episode in which "TURNSTILE" is referenced (''I Spy Apocalypse'') aired in 2003, when the base was still active.
* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]] / [[Mugging the Monster]]: far too many politicians [[Realpolitik|try to use]] [[Badass Israeli|Mossad]] [[Too Dumb to Live|for their own ends]], usually via manipulation and mis-direction One very highly placed lawyer managed to manipulate them into taking out an [[MI 5]] op team. [[Alas, Poor Villain|Let's just say]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|that he did not live long.]]
* [[Dirty Coward]]: How Adam describes a rival agent {{spoiler|who was helping rogue Mossad agents to take hostage and kill Saudi officials}} for this when he kills himself rather than face the team.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Lucas.}}
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** {{spoiler|Lucas in series 9}}
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Ros, briefly, in 6.08. Unusual in that ''she'' didn't know the nerve toxin she was injected with wasn't going to be fatal...}}
* [[False
** In fact, the majority of the episodes of the fifth series involved these.
* [[Fictional Political Party]]: The British Way Party, a [[Fictional Counterpart]] to the real-life British National Party.
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* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: Guess which one of the people in [http://littlespooksthings.tumblr.com/post/8652276316/yalta-is-delicious this] ([[Did Not Do the Research|incorrectly labeled]]) shot ends up joining the good guys. Go on, guess.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (several)
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: several agents have issues with maintaining a stable reality. This [[Freak
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]- {{spoiler|[[The Sarah Jane Adventures|Rani's dad]] works for Indian Intelligence, while Jo Portman [[Doctor Who
** In only the second episode [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Mr. Gibbs]] is a nasty Fascist {{spoiler|who shoves Lisa Faulkner's head in a deep fat fryer}}.
** in Series 1, the head of [[MI 6]] is [[House (TV)|House]]!
** {{spoiler|[[The Tudors|Edward Seymour]] joining Section D? (Series 9, Episode 1) And so is [[Doctor Who
** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Giles]] {{spoiler|is a rogue agent who hangs himself}} in Series 1, episode 4.
* [[Hide Your Pregnancy]]: Done with three different actresses in three consecutive seasons:
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** In each case, the actress' pregnancy [[Real Life Writes the Plot|forced her into maternity leave]] before the end of the respective season - although only one ultimately chose to PERMANENTLY exit the show.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: this may come very ''very'' close to [[Too Dumb to Live]], but Danny {{spoiler|sleeping with Harry's DAUGHTER}} was so ''not'' smart. Really really not smart.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Perhaps not literally, but the sniper in Series 9 Episode 5 must come pretty close. {{spoiler|His shot is from 1.67 miles away (beating the [
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: With [[MI 6]], who the more serious-minded [[MI 5]] officers view as dilettante [[James Bond]] wannabes.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Done very cruelly with introverted [[Playful Hacker]] Colin, the most benign member of the crew. It even has an edge of [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] when two [[MI 6]] field agents find Colin, drive him out into the woods, where he momentarily escapes in a desperate chase scene before they catch him, give him his smashed glasses, and then hang him while he is begging them not to.}} [[Wham! Episode|Everyone is pretty shocked by this development.]] And [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|then of course]], [[Revenge|the expected happens]].
** What makes it even more awful is that {{spoiler|Colin, expecting to be shot in the head, relatively calmly told the rogue officers to get it over with. He only starts begging when they take the noose out and he realizes that his death isn't going to be quite as quick as he expected.}}
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Connie has elements of the type. Turns poignantly hilarious in her last episode when she demands a bottle of gin {{spoiler|as part of her bomb-disarming kit}}.
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** Even though he'd been captured and tortured gruesomely by a number of rival intelligence agencies, Adam Carter was able to remain optimisitc about his work {{spoiler|until his wife was shot dead by her ex-husband, a Syrian agent}}, which pushed him into an [[Heroic BSOD]] that he never really got over.
* [[Shoe Phone]]. Subverted in "Nest of Angels". An Algerian agent listens politely when he's shown a number of disguised communication/bugging devices for his mission to infiltrate a radical Islamic group. The next scene shows him dumping this highly compromising equipment into a canal.
* [[Shout
* [[Spiritual Successor]] (to ''[[Bugs]]'')
* [[Split Screen]]
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