7.6 [Re-watch]

[Noam]

I realise that the summit part of the story was the background thread and not the main thread as one might have expected. Even so: if the negotiator was forced to resign - as opposed to being assassinated - what is the difference re the negotiations? Obviously, it's a matter of degree, but which ever solution is chosen, the negotiator is no longer part of the process.

I too was very surprised that Harry took the file home (and every time we see his home, it seems to have changed). It also doesn't make much sense that the file was 'en clair' - I would have thought that the mole would have passed on an encrypted disk, similar to the memory stick that Lucas found. All through the 20th century, spies passed on microdots, not pages of A4. Have anonymous and encrypted file transfers gone out of fashion?

And as for the photographer's memory stick - surely the contents could have been copied without initially decrypting them? They only need be decrypted on the computer to which they were copied. No need for Malcolm to say that he "re-encrypted the data to look as if it had never been copied" - technically that makes little sense (if any).