UndercoverThe SpycopsEpisodes Episode guide

Back up to: Undercover

1. New episodes coming soon

   Explore what happened next and what was real as we uncover more stories.
2. Introducing Undercover

   Officer Mark Kennedy is unmasked by the friends and lovers he was sent to spy on.
3. 9. Unmasked

   The activists become investigators and discover who Mark Kennedy really is.
4. 8. The passport – Who is Mark Kennedy?

   Mark Stone’s long-term girlfriend ‘Lisa’ discovers a passport with his real name.
5. 7. Ratcliffe on Soar power station protest

   In 2009, a covert plan to shut down a power station is prevented by a police raid.
6. 6. Train hijack

   Police documents reveal Mark Stone’s involvement in a plot to intercept a coal train.
7. 5. The D lock

   Mark Stone appears on TV news with his head secured to a gate at a nuclear power plant.
8. 4. Gleneagles, G8 summit

   Mark Stone is at the heart of a plan to block roads as the G8 leaders meet in Scotland.
9. 3. The friends from London

   Andy Whittaker hears about an odd incident when Mark's ‘friends’ come from London.
10. 20. Box 500

    How the secret intelligence service MI5 collected reports from the ‘spycops’.
11. 2. Building trust

    Exploring more of Mark's undercover life, the friends he had and relationships he built.
12. 19. The Undercover Policing Inquiry

    The 2020 public inquiry started hearing evidence from deceived women.
13. 18. The blacklist

    How undercover police officers contributed to an illegal blacklist.
14. 17. Tradecraft

    Andy Whittaker reviews the Special Demonstration Squad’s tradecraft handbook.
15. 16. Donna, 'Lindsey' and Carlo

    Donna McLean, and ‘Lindsey’ had long relationships with spycop Carlo Neri.
16. 15. The whistleblower

    Former Special Demonstration Squad officer Peter Francis turns whistleblower.
17. 14. The bereaved families

    Discussing ’Rod Richardson', the last undercover cop to use the identity of a dead child.
18. 13. Lawsuit

    Deceived women take legal action against the police.
19. 12. The children

    Revealing two undercover ‘spycops’ who had fathered children with their targets.
20. 11. Aftermath

    Two further undercover officers are revealed after Mark Kennedy’s unmasking,
21. 10. ‘I’m not the only one’ - Mark Kennedy

    Mark Kennedy talks to the media while his deployment leaves huge questions.
22. 1. The target

    Exploring how an undercover police officer infiltrated a group of climate activists.