"Episode 10.1" is the first episode in the tenth series of the BBC spy drama Spooks. It which was first broadcast on 18 September 2011, and is the eighty-first episode overall.
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Ghosts from the past come back to haunt MI5 chief Harry Pearce, prompting a shocking revelation about his time as a spy during the Cold War. Harry survives his MI5 employment tribunal and is quickly back on the Grid, where changes have been made to the team. Buried secrets are unearthed when Max Witt, a retired spy and Harry's colleague in Berlin during the Cold War, is found murdered by an unknown assassin.
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Two months after trading Albany, a state secret, for Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker), Sir Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) is on garden leave until a tribunal can determine his future with MI5, however Home Secretary William Towers (Simon Russell Beale) arranges for Harry to return on a provisional basis until its conclusion.
Harry learns that Towers has smuggled his Russian opposite, Ilya Gavrik (Jonathan Hyde), into the country to propose a strategic partnership between Russia and the United Kingdom without the knowledge of the United States government. It has also emerged that a friend of Harry's, Max Witt, was murdered because he knew somebody is posing as Harry using his old coded messages from the Cold War; the imposter made contact with Elena (Alice Krige), Gavrik's wife, and Harry's former asset.
After Section D learns of an assassination plot against Gavrik during a function, new Section D Chief Erin Watts (Lara Pulver) manages to stop and kill the assassin. Despite this, the assassin's handlers deem the mission a success. Later, Harry reveals to Ruth that he and Elena were lovers, and that FSB officer Sasha Gavrik (Tom Weston-Jones) is their son.
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