"Celebrity" is the eighth episode in the third series of the BBC spy drama Spooks. It aired for the first time on 29 November 2004, and is the twenty-fourth episode overall.
Synopsis[]
A celebrity couple whose careers are on the wane are terrified when their baby is kidnapped. The woman, a glamorous supermodel, demands MI5 handle the investigation, and Adam is tasked with the investigation. However, the team soon realises that there's more to the kidnap than at first appears.
Plot[]
MI5 investigate the kidnapping of the son of Riff (guest star Andy Serkis), a knighted pop star. After the kidnappers eventually make contact, MI5 plants the money with tracking devices, but are disabled after the kidnappers put them under magnets in a scrapyard.
Furthermore, the boy is found dead outside Riff's house. Fiona is transferred to Section D to go undercover, though Adam grows concerned after she uses cocaine. Eventually, it is learned that Riff's wife set up the kidnapping. Learning this, Riff kills his wife, then commits suicide. Meanwhile, a politician is forced to consider resignation over a missing girl with whom he was having an affair.
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- Riff and his wife are clearly based on real-life rockers, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.