Circles of Deceit - Season 1

First aired: 10/16/1993 4 episodes

Episodes

1. The Wolves are Howling

Aired: 10/16/1993

Neil's handler sends him on an undercover mission to Belfast posing as an expat Irishman. His job is to get close to a local IRA godfather and find out when and how he plans to bring in a new shipment of arms and ammunition. Neil succeeds in winning the man's confidence--and the romantic attentions of his daughter. But suspicions about his true identity begin to mount, and Neil must complete his mission before his cover is blown.

2. Dark Secret

Aired: 12/27/1995

Ex-SAS soldier John Neil is brought out of retirement by a secretive government controller, and is asked to investigate an old SAS colleague who's taken to a life of crime. An MP is exposed to blackmail, and the conspiracy uncovered leads all the way back to Nazi Germany.

3. Kalon

Aired: 4/8/1996

Investigating the murder of a Major in military intelligence, ex-solider Jon Neil follows two lines of enquiry. One is the beautiful girlfriend of the murdered man, the other takes him undercover at a merchant bank. He unearths an international drugs deal, and the Controller insists he remains in place, even when a murderous Columbian appears on the scene.

4. Sleeping Dogs

Aired: 12/23/1996

Final part in a trilogy about John Neil, an ex-SAS soldier who is persuaded to end his semi-retirement by a powerful and secretive government department. He is sent to Paris to do a deal with a former KGB agent who has the names of two people he recruited as potential saboteurs in the 1970s. The agent is killed, and Neil becomes the target of a hit man.