p 　　This series chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain 三九 s CI五 Criminal Intelligence 五 , and their controller, George Cowley The mandate of CI五 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes Cowley, a hard ex-MI五 operative, hand-picked each of his men Bodie was a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, came to CI五 from the regular police force, and was more of an open minded liberal Their relationship was often contentious, but they were the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases p