discoveredinalj | 23rd May - Our lads, professionals at what they do

I watched

maidavids' upgraded Eye of the Tiger vid this morning, and I must admit that my first thought was more Bodie - where's Doyle? but then my second thought as I was watching was about Bodie's SAS background, and how much it's brought into play during the eps, and then I wondered whether Doyle's background was brought in just as much, and then I wondered about how far the lads came up to scratch to each other as regards training. Does Bodie have SAS expertise that Doyle has had extra training to match? Does Doyle have expertise from his police experience that Bodie has had extra training to match? Hmmnn...

Weapons Expertise
Bodie's often asked about weapons - expertise from mercs, SAS, paras etc. presumably.

But Doyle obviously knows his way around them too - presumably CI5 training?

Finding Clues
Doyle spots things like Greek cigarettes!

Do we see Bodie doing clues? *g*

Chimney climbing
Presumably this is another SAS type thing - or is it? Because Bodie has this conversation with Murphy:
BODIE: Who's talking about going up the ladder? Go around the other side, straight up the brick wall. No problem.
MURPHY: Can't do it.
BODIE: I know. You can, though. Can't you? Come on, Murph, you're the best climber we've got. Climbed the Eiger, didn't you?
MURPHY: Yeah.
BODIE: Well--
MURPHY: I had guides.
So although Bodie can climb, he's deferring to someone with more expertise, so it's entirely possible that Doyle could also climb the chimney - he's certainly happy on rooves and up and down scaffolding, although that's not quite the same thing... *g* They're both happy legging it around rooftops in Blind Run.

Diving
Well, they both do that, don't they. It could be thought of as an SAS-taught skill, but maybe it's another CI5-trained skill.

Advanced driving
Seems like something they'd both be trained to do.
Would Bodie be trained to drive specialist military vehicles? Or would they both be trained to do that for CI5? We see them in a speedboat, which isn't a standard skill - and though perhaps we might expect Bodie to have to drive a boat in the SAS, it's Doyle who does it in the ep, so - CI5 training?

Interrogation
Doyle would presumably be trained in the police, whereas we wouldn't expect Bodie to be trained in interrogation for the SAS/Paras/mercs? Although he might be, I suppose.

Questioning witnesses/families/victims
This would presumably be Doyle's ground again, but Bodie wouldn't have had any need for it. Hmmn - do we see Bodie questioning anyone in the eps? Or Doyle, for that matter...

So... what else? *g* What special skills do they each have? And where do you think they came from?