Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2017)

Jerry Brotton: Self - Historian

Quotes 

• Self - Historian : When Lopez has been executed, Robert has come to a kind of maturity in that he has faced the full implications of the intelligence game, in that it is not just a matter of gathering paper and messages and moving information around. He has been prepared to sentence to death a man that he knows to be innocent. And you have to wonder what the personal cost is of somebody who has done this, who has knowingly sent to the most horrific death, to be publicly mutilated, chopped up while still alive, knowing he had done this to a long-time servant to his family and the Queen, you have to wonder what personal cost comes with that, that there must be some kind of damage to somebody's soul to commit that kind of crime.