- Connie James
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Connie James Spooks character First appearance Series 6, Episode 2 Last appearance Series 7, Episode 8 (17 episodes) Portrayed by Gemma Jones Information Gender Female Occupation MI5/FSB Double Agent,
Former: Senior Analyst, Section DFamily Walter James (Father)
Emily James (Mother)Connie James (1944–2008) played by Gemma Jones is a fictional British MI5 spy in the BBC television series Spooks.
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History
Introduction to the Team
According the BBC website, Connie joined MI5 as a secretary when she was 19 in 1963. She was first seen in episode 2 of Series 6, brought in as a regular female lead character to replace Ruth. Her back story is that she began working for MI5 as a secretary when she was 19 and is an old colleague of Harry Pearce. She has now retired from MI5 and living as the caretaker of a secret former nuclear bunker with biological/chemical weapons testing pods, whom Harry visits in order to use these pods as private interrogation rooms. She is instrumental in assisting the Team using her technical skills and tradecraft.
Betrayal and Departure
In the seventh episode of series seven, Connie is revealed to be a double agent working for the Russians. She attempts to frame Harry Pearce and kills Ben Kaplan using the underwiring of her bra to slice his throat and is arrested, trying to escape, by Ros.
She is later snatched during a section D "black op" when the team hear that a large scale terror operation, codenamed "Tiresias", is being run by the Russians to launch a nuclear assault on London using portable devices. Harry Pearce and the team promise that if she helps them she can leave the country and disappear for good.
After Ros and Lucas manage to get her across London using underground tunnels, Connie demands that the bomb is brought to her; she removes the radioisotopes, preventing a nuclear explosion but the conventional detonator explodes in her face, killing her instantly.
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Spooks Series Series 1 · Series 2 · Series 3 · Series 4 · Series 5 · Series 6 · Series 7 · Series 8 · Series 9 · Series 10Episodes "Thou Shalt Not Kill" · "Looking After Our Own" · "One Last Dance" · "Traitor's Gate" · "Smoke and Mirrors" · "New Allegiances" · "Split Loyalties" · "The Tip-Off" · "On the Brink" · "Nuclear Strike" · "Series 8, Episode 1" · "Series 8, Episode 4" · "Series 8, Episode 8" · "Series 10, Episode 6"Characters Beth Bailey · Nicholas Blake · Adam Carter · Fiona Carter · Vaughn Edwards · Ruth Evershed · Helen Flynn · Bob Hogan · Danny Hunter · Connie James · Ben Kaplan · Jed Kelley · Maya Lahan · Andrew Lawrence · Dimitri Levendis · Oliver Mace · Tariq Masood · Ros Myers · Lucas North · Sir Harry Pearce · Tessa Phillips · Jo Portman · Tom Quinn · Zoe Reynolds · Juliet Shaw · William Towers · Erin Watts · Colin Wells · Malcolm Wynn-Jones · Zafar YounisSpin-off series Spooks: Code 9Related topics Categories:- Fictional characters introduced in 2007
- Fictional English people
- Fictional murderers
- Fictional people from London
- Fictional secret agents and spies
- Spooks characters
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