Peter Ingles

**Peter Ingles** is the alias used by **Pitor Vasiliev**, an Intelligence Officer with the GRU.

## Background

### Personal

As part of his cover in Scotland, Ingles became a season ticket holder for the ice hockey team Glasgow Hurricanes. It is not specified as to whether he in genuinely a fan of the sport, or just used the location of Braehead Arena to meet with contacts. He is able to speak fluent British English without any accent.

### Professional

Vasiliev presumably has a background in the Russian Armed Forces, and later trained as an undercover intelligence officer for foreign deployment. As part of his cover, he was stationed at the Russian Embassy in Edinburgh, and given full diplomatic immunity. Prior to the events of Series 1 he was able to recruit CPO Matthew Doward, a submariner in the Royal Navy working out of HM Naval Base Dunloch. He would later use Doward as a mole in a plot to sabotage the *Vanguard* class Trident submarine HMS *Vigil**.*

## Series 1

### Episode 2

Knowing that whistleblowing information gathered by CPO Craig Burke has likely been found by the Scottish Police Service, Ingles and another associate are instructed to break into the home of DCI Amy Silva to obtain the USB drive that contains it. However, they are still present in the property when DS Kirsten Longacre enters after returning from HM Naval Base Dunloch. She immediately becomes aware that entry has been forced and calls for police backup. Ingles and his associate attack her, however she stabs Ingles in the shoulder with a pair of scissors. Due to being outnumbered, she is unable to detain them and they escape before police arrive.

### Episode 4

DS Kirsten Longacre recalls that Jade Antoniak told her about a man she assumed to be working for the Security Service watching her and her colleagues from the Dunloch Peace Camp whilst they attended a protest in Glasgow, just outside the train station. Longacre gets her colleague DS Porter to comb through CCTV footage from outside the station on that day, and they see both Antoniak and who they assume is the man she referenced, as he is wearing a hockey jacket. The two detectives look through further CCTV of the surrounding area and see the man driving away in a car from a nearby carpark. The car registration comes back to a Peter Ingles, who has no arrest or criminal record.

Longacre, Porter and several uniformed officers raid Ingles address and capture him after a brief chase. He is arrested on suspiscion of murdering Jade Antoniak. After noticing a wound on his shoulder, Longacre realises he is the same man who attacked her in Silva's apartment. Back at National Headquarters they interview Ingles and accuse him of being a Security Service intelligence officer, before the interview is suspended by DSU Colin Robertson. Robertson takes her to meet with MI5 agents Jay Kohli and Laura Michaels, who inform her he does not work for them, but for the Russian GRU. As part of his cover, he is stationed at the Russian Embassy and has been provided with full diplomatic immunity, which the Russians have refused to do. They are reluctantly forced to release him, but are assured he will be removed from the country by the Russians that evening.