Episode
The Professionals: Need To Know
Overview
Cowley finds himself under suspicion when a former colleague of his is arrested for being a double agent. So just how deeply involved is the CI5 Chief?
Details
- Series
- The Professionals
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1980-10-05
Episode context
Need To Know is Episode 5 in Season 4 of The Professionals. It aired on 1980-10-05.
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Episode 4: Involvement
In the midst of a shoot-out during a drugs smuggling investigation, Doyle meets and falls for Ann Holly, only to discover that CI5 suspect her of being closely linked to the scam herself.
Episode 6: Take Away
A team of Hong Kong police join CI5 in London to help crack a local heroin supply and protection racket. It's down to Bodie and Doyle to expose a scheme to smuggle drugs to the US by teams of Triads and European agents.
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Episode 3: Fugitive
A CIA agent is murdered in London, prompting CI5 into launching a fake arms deal with the terrorists who were responsible for the killing. But the gang uncover the plot in time, taking Bodie hostage and using him as their meal ticket to escape the country.
Episode 7: Black Out
CI5 discover that a possible terrorist attack is being planned, and the only clue they have in solving it is a German girl who is found collapsed in a church and suffering from amnesia.
Episode 2: Wild Justice
Bodie's mental state is called ino question when he becomes obsessed with a local Hell's Angel motorcycle gang, gradually sending him further and further behind in training. Is he cracking up?
Episode 8: Blood Sports
CI5 move in to protect the daughter of a South American President after his son - and her brother - is assassinated on the field of a polo match.
Episode 1: The Acorn Syndrome
The daughter of a British Government engineer who is working on a defence protect is kidnapped, and the only way she will be safely returned is if he agrees to betray secrets to enemy agents.
Episode 9: Slush Fund
A hitman is employed by a group of East German officials to assassinate a reporter who is planning to publish a report in which their new fighter plane is branded as a potential death-trap.
Episode 10: The Gun
A drug addict is murdered by a pusher who then hastily discards the gun, only for it to be found by a young boy-who then accidently shoots his friend in the process. The pusher then goes in search of the boy in an attempt to retrieve the gun and at the same time has to try to avoid his own people who are in pursuit of him.
Episode 11: Hijack
Silver bullion is being shipped into Britain via the Iron Curtain, only for it to be hijacked by one of the group's own officials.
Episode 12: Mixed Doubles
Bodie and Doyle are undergoing intense training in preparation for an assignment where they are protecting a foreign official...at the same time, two potential killers are receiving similiar training to prepare them for the assassination of the same official.
Episode 13: Weekend in the Country
Bodie, Doyle and their latest girlfriends are on a quiet weekend in the country when they unwittingly get caught up at a farmhouse siege in which they must try and escape from a group of gun-toting fugitives.