(Although it airs as the series finale, /"Sleeping Dogs/" is chronologically set after the events of /"The Wolves are Coming/" – the 1993 pilot episode starring Derek Jacobi.)

Neil is invited to meet retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov (Leo McKern), who has approached the agency with the message that he has top secret information that he is willing to sell to pay for a triple bypass operation.

(Plot spoilers from here on)

Petrov doesn't give in easily, but does give Neil the names of two lurking agents, Annie Shepherd (Frances Barber) and Bill Roper (Bill Armstrong), as an "introductory offer."

But while Neil is tracking Shepherd and Roper, Petrov is murdered after suffering a heart attack during torture. Roper is later found dead with a broken neck.

While trying to protect Annie, Neil discovers that he has been targeted by a German assassin, Hans Schroder (Nicholas Jones), who believes he is responsible for Petrov's death. With Schroder's help, Neil's investigation leads him to discover that two rogue IRA members attempt to recruit members of Petrov's former cell to carry out a targeted attack on a summit attended by Soviet ministers.

First broadcast December 23, 1996.

Form:

Dennis Waterman as John Neil
Susan Jameson as Controller
Leo McKern as Alexander Petrov
Frances Barber as Annie Shepherd
Paul Freeman as Armitage
Nicholas Jones as Schroeder
Bill Armstrong as Bill Roper
Lalor Roddy as Mark Grady
Ian Fitzgibbon as Tony Lynch
James Aubrey as George Grant

IMDB page for the full cast and other contributors:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1003266/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

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