Juliet Shaw

Juliet Shaw is a fictional character in the British TV show Spooks. She rose fast as a spy, achieving the position of National Security Coordinator. She worked with Harry Pearce on a number of ops during the 1970s, and while at a posting in Washington built up excellent contacts within the CIA.

Harry Pearce describes her as ruthless, right-wing, and crazy, who'll stop at nothing to protect Britain. She is driven and single-minded, with a take-no-prisoners attitude, which some find highly attractive. She cares little for the impact of her words, and will often talk bluntly rather than in a roundabout way.

She was left apparently paralysed from the waist down by a car bomb attack on the Home Secretary, Nicholas Blake in Series 5 Episode 1, during a chain of [...] attacks, but reappeared later in the series in a wheelchair. Juliet may harbour a grudge against Ros Myers, since it was her father, Sir Jocelyn Myers, who organised the chain of attacks that ultimately led to the car bomb and her paralysis. However, she reappears in series 6 as a high-ranking Yalta operative - stating that she had been working with the CIA under deep cover - freely walking around and apparently unparalysed.

In the same episode that she is revealed as a member of Yalta, she is the person who "kills" Ros by injecting her with what she thought was a lethal nerve agent. However, unbeknownst to her, Adam had switched the syringes and so Ros was merely put into a death-like state until her funeral, where Adam helps her escape into anonymity.