Wrapping up my take on Season 10, Episode 2….

Back at her desk Ruth is trying with all her might to concentrate on the task in hand but it is proving extremely difficult with flashes of the past hour interrupting her normally focused and analytical mind… Harry locking the door, the look in his eyes, throwing her down on his desk, 'eyes only' files strewn across his office floor, the sweat, the passion….. "Come on Ruth!" she silently berates herself, hiding herself behind her computer screen as her cheeks flush with such delicious memories. Out of the corner of her eye she sees the familiar flicker of light as Harry's blinds open, she peers round the corner of her screen to see him looking at her softly, a smile and a knowing wink before turning to sit behind his newly organised desk.

Breaking the trance Malcolm leaps out of his chair, "Gotcha!" he shouts. "Asabiyah's trigger man is only sat in prison. He's the one we keep trying to break but he won't budge, Hamid Maseer?"

"Maseer?" enquires Ruth. "I thought he wanted to stay in the UK because it was safer for him than returning to Pakistan"

"I guess he only wanted to stay in the UK so he could carry out this threat" suggests Malcolm

"Blimey" she sighs as they both head to Harry's office, Tariq and Dmitri now in tow.

An hour later and the news has come in from Special Branch that Maseer has been thrown in solitary confinement, the trigger has been found during a strip search and the Royal Mail truck carrying the un-diffused bomb has been safely steered to an abandoned warehouse near Dover docks to be dismantled.

Harry and Ruth, promising an official engagement celebration with everyone very soon share a pod and head back to Ruth's.

Picking up a Chinese and a bottle of White Burgandy on the way home they collapse on Ruth's sofa as Fidget and Scarlett vie for their attention.

"Will it always be like this?" ponders Ruth

"Like this?"

"Saving the world from destruction one moment and beautiful domesticity the next?"

"We do have the occasional boring day at work Ruth."

"I don't think there is any chance of us having another boring day at work after this afternoon's antics is there Mr Pearce!" smiles Ruth cheekily

"Exactly. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get back to The Grid tomorrow!" grins Harry

"Well, I don't think we'll have to wait that long" Ruth says as she stands and slowly sits astride Harry.

Their lips, starved of each other's company all afternoon now make up for lost time.

"Basium mihi Harry!" mumbles Ruth

"mmm… Etiam Ruth, etiam!"

Think we'll leave Episode 2 there!