Episode 10 Discussion [rewatch]

[Tea Lady]

The idea for this episode is so simple but the execution is excellent. It's episodes like this that make me want to scream at my parents who won't give Spooks the time of day.

I find that you get drawn into this episode and it just holds you there, right to the end. I even find myself starting to believe that Harry did have something to do with it, just because Ruth seems so convinced and Harry seems to be hiding something. Even though we know Harry by now, and know that he would never have gone along with such a plot.

I love the way Harry does lose his self-control in that scene with Ruth at the end. He pushes her to the wall, fed up with her thinking the worst of him, that she is the only one with feelings.

I also feel for Malcolm at the end. He doesn't consider himself brave because he didn't cut the wires. He fails to realise that just being there with the explosives, WAS him being brave. He didn't run and he could have, easily.