Series 10 - Episode 6 Discussion

[daphne]

Shakespeare said if you have tears, prepare to shed them now..
seems as succinct, resonant, and inevitable as Callum's last great line--

ah, Harry and Ruth!


and how ironic and tragic that, while everyone's head is unavoidably preoccupied with political tactics and the saving of blissfully unaware, innocent lives, the "bomb" that is fatefully, completely overlooked is one very human, young man.. who has been ticking away for 2 entire episodes (since planting a bug in Harry's car).

how far can you push a mind? !
what Sasha goes through in his last days of life..! his political loyalty in the balance? a gun held to his head by a man he believed for a couple of days to be his father? his mother risking his life, exposing herself as a fanatic? the horror of witnessing his father murder this mother?

maybe that is what Spooks is about, ultimately.
how do these MI-5s do, see, learn the things they have to do, see and learn- and still stay themselves. as Ruth's last invitation to Harry so eloquently states--

the measure of Harry Pearce's heroism is that he is, still, Harry Pearce at the last.

maybe Harry Pearce and Ruth Evershed OFF 'the grid', on the seashore.. would not have been quite "themselves"- or, at least, not in the way we knew them.