Today’s first recording is Charlie and Lola – I Really Wonder What Plant I’m Growing. Charlie is growing a tomato plant.
Lola plants a seed, but she doesn’t know what kind of plant it will be. Charlie says she has to wait and see.
“You know my wait and see plant? There’s a lot of waiting, but no seeing.”
Charlie explains the binary tree method of database indexing to Lola.
Her plant starts growing, but she leaves it out in the sub too long. So she has to try another one.
In the end, a flower grows. A flower with a smell. And Lola likes it.
Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Join Lola and Charlie, a brother and sister, as they deal with topics that affect their everyday lives. Charlie is growing a big tomato plant and Lola wants to grow something too. Mum gives her a seed and Lola can’t help but imagine a whole host of exotic and exciting plants that her seed might grow into: a biscuit plant, or a butterfly plant, or maybe even a singing plant!
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Monday 16 October 2006 08:30
The next recording opens with the end of Eastenders.
There’s a trailer for Grime Scene Investigation.
Then, the next episode of Spooks. The Saudi Trade Centre has been attacked by terrorists who arrived in the country in a shipping container. Ros is undercover working the party. As the terrorists are distracted shooting a man running for the door, she slips out, but she’s lost her nice transmitter so she can’t communicate with Thames House.
Adam and Raf have confirmed that there’s no explosive on the so-called suicide bomber. Adam thinks it’s a diversion to distract them from the Trade Centre attack.
Ros finds a phone and calls Thames House, telling them she’s lost her transmitter. She has to hide as one of the terrorists looks in the office.
New recruit Sally hasn’t come in yet. Jo is trying to contact her. We see her flat, and the camera tracks to find Sally looking a bit dead.
Double agent Neil, seconded there from MI6, is still feeding information to the terrorists in the Trade Centre, telling them that Ros is there and where she is.
The terrorists broadcast their demands online. In the days when streaming required a progress bar.
Adam and Jo check Sally’s machine, and find that she downloaded the terrorist watchlist. So now they think that Sally was the mole, and the terrorists killed her once she’d given them what they wanted. They also discuss Neil, and his Israeli wife who was blown up by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv.
Neil has a flashback to murdering Sally, just in case some of the audience hadn’t grasped that detail.
The scumbag Saudi prince asks to talk to the leader of the terrorists. When he returns to Ros, he tells her they’ll be safe. Because he works with other terrorist groups. “These terrorists want to overthrow your government, they want to get rid of your royal family, of you.” “They’re the future. No matter who’s running the country, we still have 25% of the world’s oil reserves, which are worthless if we don’t sell them.” “Why help terrorists?” “They’re going to win, sooner or later. And once they do, they’ll need people who know how to run a country. People who can talk to the West. Don’t worry your little head over it, hayati. Just stay close to me and you’ll be fine.”
Ros finds the earring with her transmitter.
Jo is still suspicious, and gets Malcolm to check out Sally’s computer. He finds that someone “sent a Spike” to her system to lock it down. But when he tries to get the address of the terminal that sent it, before he can finish processing, the system locks up again because Neil has sent a spike. Which appears to be a hex colour.
Jo is suspicious of Neil, and tries to distract him while Malcolm runs the trace again. This time the trace succeeds, Malcolm looks up at Neil, who’s fiddling with a propelling pencil. He pulls the cap out of the pencil and walks out of the room. Malcolm initiates a lockdown, but Neil gets as far as a cell, and locks himself in, swallowing whatever was in the cap of the propelling pencil. Adam talks to him, asking him to give them any information he can, but Neil is mostly thinking of his dead wife.
Ros gets the transmitter in her ear, and has just long enough to give them information about the explosives the terrorists have planted on doors and in the basement. But the terrorist leader sees her talking and grabs the transmitter, telling MI5 “She’s Next” before destroying it.
They drag the scumbag prince out to the other room to shoot him. “Are you crazy? I’m one of you.” “I’ll tell you a secret. I’m not Arab. I’m not Muslim.” “Who are you?” “I’m the enemy you’ve never had the courage to face.” Then he shoots him.
Harry meets his contact at the Israeli embassy, who all but admits that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, is behind the attack, intending to destabilise the Saudi government, and scupper the Nuclear Plant deal. Harry says “With Saudi Arabia up in flames, I fail to see how that could serve anybody’s purposes.” Uri explains “Our American patrons finally have an excuse to go in and grab those oil fields for strategic reasons. Put aside all this nonsense about spreading freedom and democracy. Let the rest go to hell. Let them slaughter each other till kingdom come.”
Just in case the viewer might still be unsure, the next scene sees Uri talking to the leader of the terrorists, warning him that the SAS are going to storm the building and they should prepare to leave.
The terrorists tie up all the hostages, and leave them lying on the floor, with explosives around them, Then they head to the basement where they’ve rigged a wall to blow so they can escape. But thanks to Ros’s message, Adam has a small team setting explosives on the other side of the wall, and they blow theirs first, then storm in and take out all the terrorists.
But the leader wasn’t in the group. Ros tells Adam how many there were, so he knows one is missing, and goes after him. And of course it’s the one who punched him in the nose last episode, so he gets his revenge.
Harry meets with Uri again, who still denies any involvement. So Harry tells him the news that the leader of the group is still alive. “Trouble is we don’t know what to do with him. No-one’s claimed him yet, which is understandable. Any country which did claim him would have to explain what he was doing leading a group of terrorists to take over the Trade Centre. Would open up a really nasty can of worms, don’t you think? No, I suspect our terrorist is going to remain anonymous for the rest of his days. Don’t you?” And the episode ends with that terrorist arriving at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay.
Media Centre Description: Drama series about the British Security Service. Ros is trapped in the Saudi siege, forced to watch hourly assassinations as the government refuse to negotiate with the terrorists who demand the return of Al Qaeda prisoners in Saudi Arabia. But are these terrorists really Al Qaeda?
BBC Genome: BBC THREE Monday 16 October 2006 22:25
After this, there’s a longer trailer for Torchwood, this one putting a bit more emphasis on Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper.
There’s 60 Seconds of news and a trail for 1Xtra Presents Lemar. Then there’s a trailer for The Catherine Tate Show.
There’s a trail for The Indestructibles then the recording finishes with the start of Say No to the Knife.
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