1. Adam Henry Carter is a fictional character from the BBC espionage television series Spooks, which follows the exploits of Section D, a counter-terrorism division of MI5.
26 Facts About Adam Carter
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Adam Carter was created with the knowledge that Matthew Macfadyen, who played Tom Quinn, would leave the series.
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The intention was that Adam would be different from Tom; the producers wanted a character who was a husband with an MI6 background.
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Adam Carter's death was voted the fourth most shocking death in the series.
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Adam Carter is a fluent Arabic speaker and has good countersurveillance skills.
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In one past operation, Adam Carter worked a case in Damascus to recruit Syrian intelligence officer Farook Sukkarieh as a double agent to work with the Israelis and stop a string of suicide attacks.
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Adam Carter used Farook's wife, Fiona, as a way in.
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Fiona and Adam Carter subsequently fell in love and started an affair.
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Adam Carter subsequently married Fiona and together they had a son, Wes.
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Adam Carter first appears in the series three opening episode "Project Friendly Fire", hired by head of Section D Harry Pearce to help clear Tom Quinn who has been framed for the assassination of the Chief of the Defence Staff.
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At the opening of season five, Adam Carter appears to have made a complete recovery and has returned to the Grid.
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Midway through the series, she and Adam Carter start a brief love affair, which ends in the penultimate episode.
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Adam Carter has recurring nightmares that involve his being wounded and unable to return home to his son, and in the eighth episode, he has a panic attack after learning that Wes has briefly run away from home; this attack jeopardises his life during an operation.
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Halfway through the series Adam Carter is mugged, and his assailant is seriously injured during their struggle.
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The man, who is identified as a journalist, later dies, and Adam Carter is wanted for murder.
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Adam Carter has a brief affair with Ros, and later fakes her death to protect her from CIA retaliation after it is exposed that she has worked with the anti-American shadow organisation Yalta.
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The episode ends on a cliffhanger where it is unclear if Adam Carter went ahead with her request.
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Adam Carter is able to drive the car to an unpopulated zone, but it explodes just as he exits the car, killing him.
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Adam Carter did not take long to decide, since his last leading role was four years previously, in 2000 in the Channel 4 drama North Square.
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Adam Carter had to audition three times before the producers included him, four months before filming commenced.
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Adam Carter felt especially so after he started working for the fourth series.
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Adam Carter returned to the fourth series because he thought his character took off by the end of the last series, and wanted to see which direction he would go to next.
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The crew wanted Adam Carter to go from a "happy-go-lucky" figure to wanting him to deal with things that would make it hard for Adam Carter to be jokey towards the end of the fourth series; this involved Fiona's death.
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Adam Carter wanted to leave the series as he felt the character had run its course, as well as wanting to explore other venues.
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Adam Carter found that his last days on Spooks was generally upsetting and "welled up" on his final day.
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Adam Carter was later voted fifth in 2005, and ninth in 2006.