Return of the Spooks
I love the British. This is a conversation between Harry Pearce, the head of MI-5, and the slimy MI-6 agent / Intelligence Committee chair Oliver Mace (on the BBC show Spooks, retitled MI-5 for US TV):
Mace: If you’re asking me, “Is there, at present, anything we shouldn’t do to achieve our ends?” then frankly, I don’t know. Post-9/11, we made a decision that nothing–nobody–was to be off-limits anymore. Look around at what’s been happening since Iraq–we’re up against it, we can’t say anymore this we do not do. In the long term, it will be proved right as a strategy.
Pearce: Whose long term are we talking about?
Mace: Before you get on your hobby-horse, Harry, think about this: Do you think we did this alone, without help from Langley?
Pearce: And that justifies it? Part of the reason for all this trouble is that most Americans think anything east of the Hudson is like those blank spaces on medieval maps where they drew in a monster and wrote “Here be dragons!” If you people continue like this, there isn’t going to be any long-term for any of us. Not that I can see.
Awesome stuff. I had an entire season’s worth in the TiVo’s cache, and with the start of the new season, felt it was probably time to catch up… before the only thing on the whole hard drive was British spy shows. The rumors of my favorite character’s departure were, unfortunately, true… and his character walked away from MI-5 two episodes in.
But I’m still watching.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Yea i had to stop watching it after they got rid of several characters I liked. I won’t be watching any new seasons…To bad cause I really liked it. The lock down disaster episode was one of my favorites