Goines On: How to leave the show?

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The evening before Goines did 60 push-ups at one go for the first time, he and Mrs. Goines had watched the episode of the BBC show MI-5 (Spooks in the U.K.) for which the writers had had to write actor Keeley Hawes’ character (Zoe Reynolds) off the show because the actress needed to move on.
    The writers had contrived for Zoe to be brought up for a political “show trial” (in the words of her boss, Harry), indicted for the murder of an undercover policeman her department had not been informed of. Though Harry has been promised by someone in the Home Office that Zoe would only have her wrist slapped, she is found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. To save one of his “most valuable officers” from that, Harry gives Zoe a new identity and a Chilean passport....