She wants Robert to have covered for her (he didn’t), he wanted to have been told about it (which she wouldn’t, after he pulled her file for “blackmail”). The state he was in?” and thus articulates a question many of us have had for three weeks now. He says, “Please tell me you didn’t allow Hector to go rogue. He confronts her with “Brown Bear” and she refuses to answer. On Valerie’s way to her office, Robert diverts her. Which gave me a flashback to this, except the wound is on the other side.Īs they are followed by an unidentified gunperson, Daniel tells Hector that Stasi buildings had tunnels under them - actually when I connect the words “Stasi” and “tunnel” I think of something else - but did I or did I not call that that building was a GDR creation? He lists a few more things Hector has to be worried about Hector says Daniel will need a lawyer, too. He lists the things they have to talk about (Thomas Shaw, the murder of Claudia Gartner, Hector’s “perverse interest” in Daniel’s private life) and Hector wants a lawyer.
(Joke about paying too many parking tickets - do diplomats in Germany have to pay their parking tickets? I don’t think they do in the U.S.) Clay also questions where Robert got the photos of Iosava’s kidnapping and Robert asserts he got them from the German police. Clay has discovered “Brown Bear” (the illegal weapons depot Hector and Daniel used with Valerie’s assistance) and sees that Valerie is connected to it he wants Valerie back in Washington for questioning. Robert is hoping for help in lifting the arrest warrant on Steven Clay wants to settle the mall shooting, find Claire Itani’s killer, and wrap up the Iosava case. Not clear how they get in as the former NSA listening station hasn’t been open to the public for quite some time now.Īt the embassy, Robert walks into work and guess who’s there? “Clay” from Langley. It’s clear this is a hostage situation now. Meanwhile, it’s daytime, and Julia arrives at the Teufelsberg (where we saw Hector and Julia meeting in episode one) with Patricia. This really was a visually beautiful episode.īeautiful shot of Daniel Miller looking suspicious of what he’s witnessed.
#BERLIN STATION EPISODE LIST PROFESSIONAL#
I hope Armitage is getting professional connections out of working with all these different people. New director: Joshua Marston, director and screenplay author of the excellent film, Maria, llena eras de gracia. There is no acting worth discussing going on here, as far as I can tell. Very sophomoric dialogue writing in the end.
Lots of Jewish kitsch stereotyping is another turnoff in the episode. Probably the most interesting piece of this episode is the way that both Valerie and Robert start to use the major dirt they have on each other. If you are interested in the Hector / Julian backstory, you will love this episode if not, you will be bored. It’s not like it’s a secret what the CIA does).
(I had a lot of flashbacks in this episode, and this was a frequent complaint about the end of Spooks 9 - that we got all the explanatory backstory in one chunk in the penultimate episode.) Additionally, it explains Hector’s behavior but gave me no additional sympathy for him (also, I don’t find it plausible, frankly, that someone with such supposedly iron principles would pick the CIA as a career in the first place. This would have been way more effective if we’d gotten it in pieces rather than in one clump in the penultimate episode of the season. TL DR summary - okay, we finally get the Thomas Shaw backstory. General correction, because I’m going to bed: Apparently now you can visit the top of the Teufelsberg, if you go with a guide.
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