#spooks (mi-5)

[the-longest-day-of-my-life]

spook, so confusing

[tobe-archive]

Tobias Menzies in MI-5 (Spooks), S8 E7 (2009)

[matthew-macfadyen-gifs]

Spooks (MI-5)

"You don't agree?"

[crimsonscloud]

This is the only justice that these people deserve.

PASCAL LANGDALE

as Finn Lambert in SPOOKS 8.03

[oliapfel]

Culinary school is to a real service line the same way College prep in High School is to College

Gives you a false impression on how the "real world" works. The moment you step foot on the line the whole "you have to do everything alone" mindset becomes more a hindrance than culinary school leads you to believe.

Don't get me wrong, I get the need to learn all the individual skills yourself to be more prepared, but they pretend like you have to do a whole menu of varying items completely alone when that's just not the case. You are a team that works together and if one falls behind, the rest are there to help pick up the slack. If the person in charge of omelets is overwhelmed, you take some tasks off their hands.

[andallthatmishigas]

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Happy Birthday, Ruth!

Here's Harry's ode to Ruth as he first starts to fall in love with her. Set end of s2.

[ceridwyn2]

Harry & Ruth

[thisbluespirit]

For @pers-books for the fanfic kiss meme, for Harry/Ruth + #8 in secrecy.

***

Their kisses are secret, like everything else.  (We’re made of secrets, you and I.)

“Harry,” she says, before she leaves his office.  They’re standing together at the door. She lays a hand on his arm, and his head lifts; she sees the query in his eyes.   (Is it an emergency, a traitor in their midst, or is it this thing between them?)

Ruth shivers, dares to lean across, to kiss him, behind the door, in the blind spot where no one can see – maybe, if they’re quick enough – and pulls away before she departs, clutching files to her chest.  Her lips curve into an equally secret smile.

They meet on benches; they talk shop and pretend they're a couple.  He kisses her right out in the open, a lie and a truth entwined together; kisses her so hard Ruth can barely breathe.

They like it like this.  Too much.  It can’t end well. 

They’re casual acquaintances, running into each other on the street.  The grid is compromised.  What else can they do?

She gives him a memory stick by sleight of hand while they exchange quick, public how-are-yous, and then, when he starts to move on, she grasps his coat. She shoots him a wicked look, and leans in to kiss his cheek in farewell.  They brush against each other more they should as they pass on; she this way, he that.

It’s not normal.  It’s not safe.  Neither of them could do it any other way if you paid them.  Her heart dances.  Next time, it says.  Next time.

(We’re made of secrets, you and I.)

Send me a ship + kiss here!

[wolfdrum]

Casual Jacket Harry

[t3andcrumpets]

**blows down cobwebs**

My little corner looks a touch disused over here.

Maybe I should do something about that. Or not.

I've been rewatching Spooks and I love Ruth and Harry so much. But I'm discovering that the older I get, the more like Ros I get: completely stone-faced and ball-busting till the job is done. Bitches love me (not).

[the-longest-day-of-my-life]

Matthew MacFadyen (as Tom Quinn) and David Oyelowo (as Danny Hunter) in Spooks 1×01 (13/05/'02)

[tobe-archive]

Tobias Menzies in MI-5 (Spooks), S8 E8 (2009)

[savycon63]

So cute😍One of my favourite Ruth episodes. Season 3 Episode 5

[rocketxpilot]

I need this jacket

and the man in it

Promo pics for Spooks

[andallthatmishigas]

I watched 4.9 tonight and had some Thoughts after the all-important bus scene.

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