[Spooks]: The Best Moments

[Silktie]

Before I made my list, I thought about the characteristics these moments should have for me. I decided that it should be moments that made me sit up and go, "Ooh, I say! That's awesome" or "I didn't expect that!" So, while there are many other moving/emotional/character moments that I love, these are my ten best moments according to the criteria I set:

1.2: Helen and the deep fat fryer. It may be clichéd and old news now, but when it actually happened it made us all sit up and say: Did they just do that?!

2.10: Tom shoots Harry and swims out into the North Sea – beautifully filmed, emotional sequence.

5.5: Harry glasses Oliver Mace in a Gentleman’s Club after having a conversation about the rights and wrongs of torture - Harry draws his line in the sand and sacrifices himself to save Ruth.

9.1: Harry poisons the former Home Secretary for his involvement in Nightingale and Ros’ death. Fantastic performance from both actors and stunningly set and filmed.

7.7: Harry sits in a chair waiting for CO19 to come and get him, listening to the Slave Chorus from Nabucco, and then the soldiers burst in. Perfection ito performance, mood, music, action and filming in this scene.

3.3: Adam traipses all over London to shake off the surveillance on him before meeting Harry’s secret asset. Fantastic exhibition of tradecraft at work.

3.10: Danny provokes the terrorist into shooting him in order to save Fiona. Moving, upsetting end for a great character.

4.10: Zaf gives his presentation on how the Security Services could have killed Diana, and it’s so convincing we all wonder whether it might be true.

6.9: Harry presents himself as a target to Davey King and gets shot, and for just a moment we’re not aware that he’s wearing the bulletproof vest.

7.7: Connie slashes Ben’s throat – unexpected and shocking, made all the worse for her calm reaction afterwards.

Honourable mentions go to Adam talking Carmen Joyce into killing herself in 3.1, and Shining Dawn's first bomb going off while the team is sitting in church at Danny's funeral.