7.8 [re-watch]

[A Cousin]

(12-07-2011 08:52 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  Loved the Harry V Connie moment in the safe house. The way Harry is just physically imposing himself over her. She doesn't really flinch though. He doesn't intimidate her. Its only the coded message that gets to Connie. She's not scared of Harry.

I love the way that scene is shot - with the camera low and behind Connie, with Lucas and Ros framing Harry. The body language of Harry, Ros and Lucas says everything about how each of them feel about her at that moment. Ros sits facing her directly but with arms and legs crossed. Lucas is turned partly away barely able to look at her. Harry stands strongly and openly in front of her.

Her terror at hearing the coded message mirror The Sleepers reaction too. It is almost as if they never really expected it to actually happen.

Tick. Tick. Tick.... Creepy! I think that is why I "like" the Connie character so much. She is just so deliciously evil and Gemma Jones is just too brilliant in it.

Did some looking into the suitcase sized nuclear bomb idea and, to my relief but not surprise, no one seems to have been able to make that happen quite as conveniently with the ability to do the kind of destruction as presented in this episode. At least no one admits to it. The US and Russia are the only ones who have come even close. The US's smallest one is about 100 lbs and Russia's is the size of a refrigerator. A fact that got me giggling when the image of Lucas gingerly carrying a refrigerator into the bowels of the London Underground for Connie to defuse. Again, it's a case of what Spooks does so very well: taking a credible idea and spinning it into epic proportions.