Episode 2 Discussion

[Sidney Reilly]

Good evening all, this is my first post so please bear with me if I inadvertently tread on any toes or reiterate any previous threads (and please let me know if I do, us newbies have to be kept in line, or we just think we’re running the show). Just watched S8E2 for the first time tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it, I felt from the very outset that Thumper was going to get his comeuppance before the hour was up, someone that nasty just has to be taken down. And yes the new CIA liaison is annoying enough for me not to remember her name either, and any liaison at Claridges with the CIA liaison is bound to end in tears as I seem to remember it doing so with Tom many years ago. Tariq is a good addition to the team I suppose the hi-tech gadgetry had to be handed over to a young techno-geek at some point but I have to say that Malcolm’s final act of offering himself for the boy in S8E1 is just how I want to remember him. Being a big Ros fan I am a little bit wary of Ruth’s return but then again as she is the "anti-Ros" in her personality so it will give some depth to the rest of the series, and it’ll be interesting to see how the relationship between her and Harry compromises any future operations. I mean, they might as well be together as any of the teams spouses who aren’t MI5 certainly seem to be living on borrowed time (and even some those who are MI5). Lucas certainly seems to be having a hard time of it in this episode with his “taking one for the team” in his visits to the strip club and his clandestine meeting wth the CIA woman (what’s her name again?) and I agree with one of the previous posts saying how nice Jo looked dolled up in that dress as Camilla Hamilton-Bligh. Although, she did make a very nice job of finishing Thumper off after he had very obligingly dismissed his own security (and yes, I did spot Tariq in the hallway in his waiters uniform although he had is back to us). Lastly, my favourite part was when flopsy (although he hadn’t been so named at this point) was following BB and up behind him pops Ros (told you I was a big Ros fan) and you just know, as sure as eggs is eggs that she is going to bring him down and she certainly did’nt disappoint. Down goes flopsy and he’s only saved by his wagon load of henchmen turning up to rescue him from hard as nails Ros. Perhaps it was the ease with which she took him down that earned him his very appropriate nickname.