MI-5 (TV Series)

I Spy Apocalypse (2003)

Nicola Walker: Ruth Evershed

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Soldier : Let's go!

  Ruth Evershed : [voice-over]  At dawn today, armed special forces raided a warehouse in King's Cross. Information had been received anonymously that a terrorist group was using the warehouse as a bomb factory. Armed forces secured the building and found it to be unoccupied. There was, however, evidence of an attack being planned. There were detailed maps of the Whitehall government buildings with CCTV camera positions marked and dead spots calculated. The group's political orientation is unknown. Level of threat flagged as blue, AA.

• Ruth Evershed : You know, I never realized, I'm just my job, nothing else. Without it, I go completely to pieces.

  Tom Quinn : No, no, Ruth, you're much more important than that.

  Ruth Evershed : No, no, I'm happy with that.

• Ruth Evershed : It's a terrible decision, Mr. Tom Quinn.

  Tom Quinn : Is it, Ruth? I can't tell anymore. They look at you and their eyes are either full of dumb hate or dumb trust. What am I gonna do, Ruth?

  Ruth Evershed : What are you saying, on the head of the king let all the sorrows lie?

  Tom Quinn : I'm meant to be EmEx Officer and I don't know what to do. I don't!

  Ruth Evershed : No, no, no, you don't go all moody and sensitive. See, that's for us, we're the troops, you're the leader. Leaders don't have feelings, as you well know.

  Tom Quinn : If you're trying to comfort me, it's a strange way of doing it.

• Ruth Evershed : Maybe it doesn't matter. We may as well just walk out, get home somehow before the VX affects us. I mean, we should be with our loved ones. Even if we've only got a cat.