Episode 4 Discussion [rewatch]

[A Cousin]

Just jumping in here. Maybe this has been discussed before,but...

I've have always liked this episode because I see parallels to King Lear and that is not limited to the quote and Adam's reference to it. I am probably completely over-analysing it but off the top of my head: Harry is Lear - howling into the wind of the emotional state he finds himself in, Catherine is Cordelia - under appreciated by her father but innocent in the end, Adam is Gloucester - dealing in his own way with his emotional connection to the Op, Danny is Kent - under an assumed name hired by Lear as a servant, Ruth is the fool - "mocking" Lear with her endless "something else's." Not glaring parallels, certainly, but subtlety is key in Spooks. Not sure how the Zoe/Will story line fits in, but it doesn't have to.

And that is me taking a metaphor too far, I am sure!