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What series Spooks is as the moment. All highly implausible stuff, but massively gripping and finally getting everything right. In fact, so right I really do think it now rivals the kind of American counterparts that are always lauded as slick, fast-paced and taut. Spooks has really hit its straps this series. But one thing was bothering me from last night’s penultimate episode – what was that weird hissing face Connie pulled when she was captured and confronted by Harry?
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So there was Connie, held by some security people and about to be carted off to god-knows-where, captured for garrotting poor Ben and being in cahoots with the nasty Russian forces. And then Harry emerged, ‘fresh’ from his torture ordeal.
Harry had a few words with her – as you would expect after confronting the woman who had set him up – and then Connie did this weird thing with her face. She hissed at him, like a snake. I was quite taken aback by that.
It reminded me of Hannibal Lector, and the bit in Silence of The Lambs where he was explaining to Clarice his preferred way of human people’s bits and pieces.
I know was meant to be scary, but I laughed out loud when I first saw it. I immediately thought it was a bit naff and ultra-cliched, but the more I think about it – and reminded of it – and remember her face, I’m actually quite scared of it.
It may not have worked initially, but maybe it has this residual effect, lodging the sight in your brain and tormenting you every time you think about it. After all, how can a sweet lady like Connie turn into a raging psychopath?
What did you think of it?
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Well, as I wrote in my review, it worked for me right from the off. I interpreted it as a combination of fear at finally being caught, and hatred of Harry – long suppressed – and all he stands for. If it was an ad-lib on Gemma Jones’ part it was a moment of genius and either way it was incredibly effective. I agree with you on the after-effect though. It’s been coming back to me all day today.
I too thought last night’s Spooks was excellent. What an concise summary of the proceedings, MrB.
One thing puzzled me and perhaps you can clarify it. Harry’s interrogation seemed real and the Home Sec.’s confrontation was menacing but then Harry is freed, appears no worse for wear and he and the HS are pals again. Was this a set up to trap Connie, or are we to suppose that Harry was just putting on a good face and the HS had apologised to him?
Sharon, for my money that would have been a bluff too far. Connie was never witness to the scenes in the interrogation room, and Grady really did inject Harry with some kind of truth drug, so my vote is that Harry really was up against it, and the turning point was his clever use of the word Renaissance twice, which he hoped Ros would be clever enough to pick up on.
I think his reappearance looking totally refreshed and sharply dressed was a bit of dramatic licence. Or maybe Grady had an antidote to whatever he’d injected earlier?
Any chance of keeping spoilers like that below the cut for those of us that catch up on iPlayer later in the week?