another MI-5 question

[meganbmoore]

I suspect the answer is "very rarely" given the people who recced this to me, but how often to women get their hands and faces dunked in acid before being shot in the head (or some equivalent horrific demise) in an attempt to get their bosses to give up information?  (That she made a sexual misstep by trying to initiate sex with said boss earlier in the episode doesn't really help how that came across.)

Also, is Zoe played by Keeley Hawes?  I'm too lazy to check and have only seen Hawes in period dramas before.  Also, when does the woman who I'm told can kill people with pens show up?

Comments

[carrielh.livejournal.com]

Rarely is the answer, yes. That was a special instance (well, "special" is maybe not the word I want, but you know what I mean).

Yes, Zoe is Keeley Hawes. And fun fact, she's now married to Matthew Macfadyen, who plays Tom.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's meant to be "Anyone can die!" but when your first important death is the blonde who made a mistake on the job and who also hit on her (involved, but she probably doesn't know about that) boss, it skirts on unintentional connections.

That is a fun fact!

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Suddenly, the two of them playing a married couple in Death at a Funeral makes a lot more sense.

[carrielh.livejournal.com]

Oh, did they? I never saw it. I knew he was in it, but not her as well.

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Yep, they both are. As well as Alan Tudyk as a stoned-out-of-his-gourd-and-occasionally-naked Englishman. Y'know, in case you were curious. :)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I can't say. I hadn't actually seen that episode, but that is sad-making.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That's the only instance that I recall. Though a lot of people do die violently in this show, I don't think it's skewed toward women doing so. There are some instances of women in refrigerators, but also a lot of non-fridged women. That was also probably the single most graphic bit of violence in the entire run of the show.

Ros, who can kill with a pen, turns up in season five. And yes, that's Keeley Hawes.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It wasn't so much that they killed a woman (I expect many deaths) but that it was the first major death, how she died, and what was going on with her throughout the ep all added together that made it stand out.

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Same as above - it doesn't really happen again.

From what I recall, though, it's by far the most graphic death depicted - most everything else is your typical shoot-em-up action death.

But it's been a yonk's age since I've seen the series and I stopped watching after the second season. There may be gorier things I'm forgetting.

ETA: Annnnd now I see someone already said the exact same thing above. I'm quick like that.