Episode 5.3 [rewatch]

[JHyde]

I really love this episode. It is (along with 4.6) the closest we get to a Zaf storyline and the scene between Ros and Zaf in the housing relief centre remains one of my absolute favourites across the entire show. Both actors so funny and clearly loving it. It is also the beginning of the relationship that leads Ros to

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go looking for him in 6.2/6.3.

I love the dinner scene between Harry and Ruth. It's just terrific, as is the scene on the roof. Nothing else to add there, those scenes have already been analysed to death elsewhere.

I also love the tension we feel with Adam on his crusade to find the trigger. That's an evil moment where he has to make a call about the signal and whether the signal is, in fact, a trigger. I actually wonder whether it would have been more interesting to kill someone innocent.

What happens with Michael's girlfriend is totally tragic and it certainly continues the trend of Ros making bad decisions and lying. Ros is a borderline bad guy the first half of season 5 and she certainly comes off badly in this episode, the only glimpse of humanity being the scene with Zaf.

Also love the first mention on the show of 'A Dog So Small', which is such a great story. Of course it comes back in a big way in

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8.1 with Malcolm and Nico.