#but for me this is the absolute pinnacle of the series‚ an incomparable highpoint

[mariocki]

Another guest spot for Jacqueline Pearce (and in very fashionable form), as British agent Ruth Klinger - or is that double agent? - in Man in a Suitcase: Somebody Loses, Somebody... Wins? (1.19, ITC, 1968)

#fave spotting #jacqueline pearce #man in a suitcase #supreme commander servalan #servalan #somebody loses‚ somebody... wins? #classic tv #itc #1968 #I'll be wailing about this episode more in the tags on its own post (and really‚ forever more) #but for me this is the absolute pinnacle of the series‚ an incomparable highpoint #and Jac is a big big part of that #her character is in every way McGill's equal‚ including crucially in a professional sense #they have history‚ they have lore! we find out that after McGill was framed as a traitor‚ she was the only person who continued to send him #christmas cards!!! McGill literally says that saved his life!!!!!! this episode makes me insane‚ THEY make me insane and Of Course it can't #end happily with them running away together (something McGill actually suggests at one point‚ a highly atypical moment and the mirror of #his scenes with his other old flame‚ Taiko in Variation on a Million Bucks; when she suggests they go away together it's McGill who resists #and says he has to do the job first.. here it's Ruth telling him the Exact Same Thing and agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) #also SPOILERS for the episode incoming #but that offer of McGill's comes AFTER he finds out she's setting him up and has apparently betrayed him #i mean there's other stuff going on but Aghrhhrhjj. ehhhbdndn. sigh. so yeah. #also I'm just gonna say it: Jac looks incredible in this episode. i mean the pixie cut?? the dresses??? she has at least 6 costumes which #is kind of insane for a MiaS episode‚ and they're all fantastic. and she's so so beautiful #McGill is so angry in the second half of this episode‚ angry at the intelligence services involved‚ angry at the cold war #angry at being set up again‚ angry at the way human lives are being used and traded and moved like pawns across a chess board #but he is never angry at Ruth; he even tells her she doesn't need to apologise. he understands because she's a professional and he was a #professional once‚ in the same job‚ doing the same dirty work. and in the end he risks everything for her. sigh. this episode guys.