Anatomy of a scene - Allan Cubitt dissects the final scene in episode 3

Sheridan is Spector's Intensive Care Nurse. They give an almost one to one care to their patients and the real practitioners I spoke to suggested to me that it is, in reality, a very intimate and close relationship. Obviously I was interested in how far the allegations against him would impinge on that relationship.

Aisling Bea, I felt, struck precisely the right balance of professionalism and care right from the first. But bit by bit she is drawn into a different kind of relationship with him - one where she seems to have some concern for his damaged spirit as well as his damaged body. My idea is that the line, "I will pray for you" is provocative. Surely he is beyond redemption? It seems Sheridan doesn't think so. Has anyone ever prayed for Spector before? At this point the audience doesn't really know how far Spector's memory loss is real or exaggerated or even feigned. How far has the trauma of the shooting or - as Larson (Krister Henriksson) suggests - even the emotional trauma of the crimes themselves brought about a change in character? Is he still as dangerous as Gibson herself warns? That last look is supposed to provoke the audience into thinking about all those possibilities at the end of the series mid-way point.

Jamie sets the moment up by watching Sheridan as she goes. She leaves oblivious that he is still looking at her intensely from behind the glass. Then he lies back and the camera creeps up him until it is overhead. I then asked Jamie to hold it for a beat before looking up into the lens.

The look, suggesting that the old Spector has not gone is pure Jamie, hugely complex. Just like the look he gives Gibson when he's shot and lying in her arms at the end of series 2 - subtle and nuanced and ambiguous, open to all kinds of interpretations, replete with possibilities.

A glimpse of the Old Spector...?