[Spooks]: The Best Moments

[beatrice4ruth]

(09-11-2011 02:52 PM)Onion Terror Wrote:  In no particular order...

ep 3.1 Tom and Adam meet for the first time. Harry prevents Tom from interrogating Carmen Joyce, forcing him to listen-with growing admiration-as Adam gently gets her to confess to Toms setup. At the risk of sounding VERY geeky, that scene outside the surveillance van always reminds me of my childhood and the bit in the Transformers movie where Optimus Prime knows he's dying and hands over the 'matrix of leadership' (anyone over the age of about 30 should get this reference!).

ep 5.9 Adam and Richard Dempsey come together and prove Dempsey wasn't a traitor.

ep. 4.6 Zaf allows would-be assassin Nazim Malek to hear his sons voice on the phone, just as Malek is about to pull the trigger.

ep 3.3 Harry helps Adam lose the MI6 surveillance team, much to the annoyance of Oliver Mace.

ep 4.9 Harry, Adam and Wes go to the dog track. Similarly the bit in I think its 7.1 when Harry turns up to watch Wes play rugby instead of Adam. A touching, wordless scene that always brings a lump to my throat

ep 3.7 Danny loses the chip on his shoulder about Zoe in time to figure out Ruth is in danger.

ep 2.3 Zoe-undercover as a schoolteacher-gets some typically male advice from Tom and Danny about tight fitting tops and short skirts.

ep 8.1 Ruth reappears. I wasn't sure the reappearance of an old character could be made to work, but I was happily wrong.

and finally, I can't quite remember the episode, but I cheered loudly when Tom finally cut his losses with Ellie, the most irritating girlfriend a bloke could possibly have.

Believe me, you do not have to be a bloke to find Ellie extremely irritating. I was so happy when Tom got rid of her. I also like your other choices which are not violent.

[tammy1]

Harry and Ruth deserve a list of their own, IMO .

Anyway, some of my favourites are:

Harry telling Tessa he will have to throw her to the wolves, at the end of series 1.

Zoe and Danny nearly kissing on series 2.

Harry returning wounded to the Grid on 3.01 and throwing Mace out. Loved the way Ruth managed to get him the message.

The scene at Ruth's house with Ruth, Harry and Hicks on 4.05. I actually love the entire episode.

Harry trying to save the old Commy spy at the end of 4.08 and failing.

The bus scene, of course, on 4.09.

Harry arrested by the traitors on 5.02. When told he will not be going to work ever again, he asks for a bottle of scotch.

5.05 - the scene with Mace. Ros telling Ruth she never apologized. Love the entire episode, really, not just the H&R scenes.

The episode when Ros had to "die", on series 6 - Harry telling her that she is "his" birlliant officer and not to be afraid.

Connie's interrogation on 7.08.

8.08 - Harry crying on the roof after Sara Cauldfield is shot dead, and Ruth telling him that all men are brothers.

9.06 or 9.07 - Ruth's episodes with Deery.

10.6 - other than H&R moments, the scenes between Elena and Ruth. and of course, the scenes after Ruth's death. I hate them, but also find them great.

[JHyde]

In 5.2 I don't think it's just that Harry won't be going to work again. He wants the scotch because he knows he is about to die.

[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.

[inveniam]

I have such a bad memory, but off the top of my head:

• The deep fat fryer scene
• The entire eerie exercise episode, will never stop loving it
• When the Irish man tells Tom there's a bomb in his house, with Ellie and Maisie inside
• The Anthony Stewart Head character, when he meets Tom and makes the little speech and then at the end when he kills himself
• Tom shooting Harry/swimming
• The scene where Tom says 'It's like it's stopped raining in my head"
• Danny's death
• Adam and Jo being held, the recording of Zaf screaming, it really set my teeth of edge
• Jo and her speech about women and war. Her talking about the bird, asking Adam to kill her
• Jo's obsessive running after what happened to her
• Fiona's death
• Lucas in the bathroom, with his tattoos on display - it just fascinated me/the story behind them
• Ros telling Jo about it being different for women in the service
• Harry being held/interrogated/drugged
• The nightmare/flashback scenes where Lucas thinks about hanging himself
• The whole episode with Oleg Darshavin - their relationship at the beginning of the ep was almost stockholm syndrome/love
• The scene where the bloke talks to Lucas and asks him how it's been being Lucas, and then he says 'See you, John' or whatever it is. I only just recently watched this and I'm still shocked!
  

[JHyde]

It's really interesting to see which quiet moments make people's lists. I am pleased to see Harry and Wes in 7.1 making a few lists and also some of Jo's stuff. Surprised the HR bus scene didn't make more.

[tammy1]

(12-11-2011 05:29 AM)JHyde Wrote:  In 5.2 I don't think it's just that Harry won't be going to work again. He wants the scotch because he knows he is about to die.

Of course, that is why it was such a beautiful response.

[Tea Lady]

8.1 Mani counting to ten and Ruth calling Harry a bas***d

7.8 Harry with coat and jacket off, standing facing the window of the FSB headquarters in London.

7.8 Harry in boot of a car in body bag.

8.1 Ruth rushing up the stairs of her Cypriot house when she hears the car doors open.

[Tiresias]

Just to name a few...

* All of Series 7, particularly the last two episodes.
In my opinion this series was the best of the lot. So many great points ... too many to list. I can easily watch Ep 7 and 8 over and over again. While I have all these eps saved on a hard drive, I also purchased the DVD for this series. In Australia, we get a 50-52 min edit of the full broadcast, we missed out on so much good stuff - most notably, Harry's subway murder.

* Series 2 Episode 2.
The first episode I ever watched. Tom and an Algerian conscript confront a teenage suicide bomber in a playground. My cynical self expects it all to finish in a happy ending, as TV shows often do. But he pulled the string ... The excellent filming, Jennie Muskett's accompanying music and the great story hooked me straight away.

* Series 9, Episode 7.
The two different versions of what actually happened when John Bateman blew up the embassy. "The killer is awake!"

* Series 10 Episode 6.
Even though we have just seen the last episode here in Australia, the scenes following Ruth's murder are top notch stuff, especially the memorial.

[sam b]

My best moment in spooks is Adam finding out about Ros being a double agent and their confrontation in the meeting room, Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!