Salting the Battlefield BBC 2 9pm

The last of David Hare’s spy trilogy. We have some salt of our youth in us and old Worricker has more than most. Has he enough to bring down the government, to bring down the Prime Minister? Well, let’s start with a little jazz, a little flitting about, a short-stay in Germany. Worricker and Tyrell are lying low. An M15 agent is told by her counterpart the difference between Germany and Britain is ‘Germans don’t like cameras’. They don’t like to be spied upon, for their own safety. There’s no CCTV on every street corner.   The Prime Minister is in crisis mode and what he wants to know is where is Worricker? It’s obvious, Worricker is behind him. M15 are two steps in front, the king makers and the king breakers. Worricker is a conduit of change. Olivia Williams as a newspaper editor with a Anna Vintour barnet is the journalist that targets the Prime Minster with a series of five questions on her front page that he needs to answer. He can’t answer them, because old Johnny is the man with all the answers. A raised eyebrow from Nighty means the lights going out Downing Street. Helena Bonham Carter was sprightlier. She’s been tagged.  MI5 by luck, more than planning know she’s coming through Stansted. A young fit guy picks up the lead and follows her. She runs away from him with a couple of shopping bags on her arm. I often see wardrobes running away from whippets, but we’ll let that slide. Worricker’s on a roll. He’s given a free hand by someone higher up in M15. He meets with the Prime Minister. They have a little chat about morality. The Prime Minster is resigned to Johnny always being right. Then he resigns to the great British public (sheep, sheep). Hurrah, for Johnny, but Helena’s not going to stay. She loves him too much. That’s not a bad thing (I’m partisan, bring back Rachel Weisz). Bring back Le Carre.