"Black tie is a little overdressed" (Spooks 2.6 picspam)

[thisbluespirit]

I didn't have much brain for doing all the things I meant to be doing last night, so had another go taking screenshots from the first 10 mins or so of Spooks 2.6. Therefore no spoilers whatsoever (other than what's also given away by the DVD cover in terms of Characters Who Survived S1), just everyone (Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Megan Fellows) looking pretty in formal wear. And stolen, tea-stained documents...


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Just to explain, our Heroes are interrupted at a diplomatic party by the sudden decision of the US President to visit Britain. The CIA want access to more than they should and to take the lead; MI5 are being sulky and intercepting US documents to try and find out what's really going on. And someone has spilt their tea over the said stolen documents. Meanwhile, Tom's getting dody phonecalls. (I so miss S2. No one ever spills tea these days, or lets the cat out.)


Doing the Spooks walk in formal wear. :lol:


Danny


Zoe


Tom's phone is probably ringing again...



Amusingly, pre Harry/Ruth, but they're on the phone to each other discussing the 'borrowed' crate of documents...


The Americans arrive, led by Christine Dale. Cue much sarcasm and one-upmanship on both side. (This is MI5 and the CIA remember. None of them trust anyone...)


Believe it or not, but what Danny is looking at here is...


...this. Really.


Harry keeps his bow tie on, unlike the rest. He's not liking being bossed around, though...


"And there will be no pocket money for either of you for one month..."


Comic moment: the clearly labelled and rather large stolen crate is walked past the open door in full viewing of the visiting CIA operatives...


Luckily Sam is on hand to get it out of sight.


The CIA have a problem. Do MI5 care? Not much...


Tom in the briefing room.


One of the few proper full-length shots of Zoe's dress.


Ruth! (She doesn't get dressed up, but there's one clear shot, so I had to include it, obviously. I think she's trying to signal to Tom to get rid of Christine...)

Sam and Malcolm investigate the crate:

"How much tea?!"


"One day all the grid will be blue like this, you know. There won't be any green..."


Leonardo of the dustbins at work again.

(Soon after this, Harry spoils the fun by arranging for everyone's proper clothes to be brought: "Black tie is a little overdressed, I feel".)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Eee! I'd forgotten about that black tie in the Grid stuff!

[paranoidangel]

I so miss S2. No one ever spills tea these days, or lets the cat out.

I miss that sort of thing in Spooks too. It's all so serious these days.

[thisbluespirit]

I know. I think it's about the only time they all get dressed up for another few seasons. It seemed a good thing to share, but my copies of the pics were way bigger than this! Hmm. :lol:

[thisbluespirit]

I know. I mean, still Spooks, but the only flicker of light regarding that sort of thing was Ros and Lucas's useless facts banter. It's something, but it's not spilt tea. ;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

They should get dressed up more often!

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Series 2! How I miss it.

There is so much to love in just the first ten minutes of this episode. Especially Zoe's dress (though her hair still isn't quite right) - and I laughed so hard at that cap of Danny "reading" the "note".

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! I thought it might be a fun one to try out my new powers of picspamming on, especially as it had a point where I could make myself STOP. ;-)

Yes, I had the sound off (cos I'd slowed it down and everyone sounded very strange) and Danny's actions at that point had me going 'Eh' for a minute, before I realised. :lol:

[novindalf]

Oh I love this episode! I miss this sort of thing in Spooks nowadays... =/

Great picspam!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! 2.5 and 2.6 together make up my favourite DVD disc, I have to say. :-)

And, yes, I know - S9 started as if we might actually get bits like this, and then... :-(

If we had an episode where the problem was tea-spillage instead of end-of-the-world, that would make a very nice change.

[novindalf]

Well, 2.5 for sure is one of my favourite episodes, but other than the tea-incident and the pretty clothes I don't remember much of 2.6. I really need a re-watch!!

Yep, a very nice change. Mind you, where would they fit it into the series, now there's only eight episodes instead of ten? =/ I still maintain they ought to return to having ten episodes, at least to commemorate S10...

[thisbluespirit]

2.6 is where the US president visits and Christine Dale puts and end to Tom's insane girlfriend. And where Malcolm spends all his time trying to salvage tea-stained documents, of course. :-) Far more frivolous than 2.5 but they make a nice pairing on the disc together! :-)

Well, S1 had only 6 episodes, and they still fitted in stuff like hairdrying the cat in ep1 and Zoe and Danny's spy competitions in their flat.

(Edited because I apparently have an inability to type the right words this morning).

[novindalf]

Oh, that's the episode with "QE2, move your ass" then! Yeah, I remember that one!

Well, S1 had only 6 episodes, and they still fitted in stuff like hairdrying the cat in ep1 and Zoe and Danny's spy competitions in their flat.
I stand corrected! Hmm, then they shouldn't have any problem with doing so in 8 episodes... =/ Even tiny things like someone opening their front door and replacing the piece of paper that falls down would be a welcome break from the Armageddon stuff we keep getting.

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

I so miss S2. No one ever spills tea these days, or lets the cat out.

S2 is my favourite series. There was a good mix of comic and sad, scary and angst etc. I felt that s2 was the best team overall imo. I miss those days so much. *le sigh* Spooks ain't what it used to be alas :P

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I am torn. I quite like S1, although it is sad in that it is Ruth-less. But my fave is either S2 or S4. I can never quite decide. But I am sorry we don't have those little every day stuff they used to do. Spilling tea, spy competitions, finding the cat, all that sort of thing.

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's creepy! s4 is my other fave series! I loved s1 too but once Ruth came in everything was more awesome :P

[thisbluespirit]

Yes - it was immediately clear that the series had needed a bonkers but brilliant senior analyst all along. I mean, I have enjoyed most of the other seasons, but S2 & 4 remain my favourites so far. :-)