William Towers (Spooks)
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William Towers MP is the Home Secretary in the ninth series of the BBC television drama Spooks
. He is portrayed by actor Simon Russell Beale
. Towers is appointed after the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
In the tenth series, he has Harry's tribunal stopped and reinstates him as Head of Section D. He reveals that this is because the death of Osama Bin Laden
and the revolutions in the Middle East
were causing a new chain of events that could end up with fundamentalist taking power and therefore declaring state support for terrorist organizations. As a bid to separate themselves from the US's negative image, the UK is attending a secret summit with Russia to discuss a new special relationship between their two countries. Towers was responsible for bringing Ilya and Elena Gavrik into the country so as to prepare the negotiations.
In the third episode, he asks Ruth Evershed
to dinner where he offers her a job as his new security adviser, a job she accepts in episode four and takes up in the fifth episode.
Spooks
Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
. He is portrayed by actor Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale, CBE is an English actor. He has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."-Early years:...
. Towers is appointed after the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
In the tenth series, he has Harry's tribunal stopped and reinstates him as Head of Section D. He reveals that this is because the death of Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
and the revolutions in the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
were causing a new chain of events that could end up with fundamentalist taking power and therefore declaring state support for terrorist organizations. As a bid to separate themselves from the US's negative image, the UK is attending a secret summit with Russia to discuss a new special relationship between their two countries. Towers was responsible for bringing Ilya and Elena Gavrik into the country so as to prepare the negotiations.
In the third episode, he asks Ruth Evershed
Ruth Evershed
Ruth Evershed was a fictional Senior Intelligence Analyst seconded from GCHQ to MI5, featured in the British Television Series Spooks, also known as MI-5 in the United States. Ruth was played by Nicola Walker from the time the character joined the show in 2003, until Walker left to have a baby in...
to dinner where he offers her a job as his new security adviser, a job she accepts in episode four and takes up in the fifth episode.