Academic
James has an IQ of 153, and his prowess at maths is commonly noted, with him taking his A-levels in Maths and Further Maths a year early and teaching Maths to younger members of CHERUB (another deleted scene from The Recruit), He is fluent in Russian but hasn't mastered the accent (This almost cost his life in The Fall) and Spanish. He is also good at Physics and has got a guaranteed pass at GCSE for History in The Fall (When he helped Kevin Sumner combat his fear of heights). However, James is known for messing around in lessons when he should be paying attention.
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—David Mamet (b. 1947)
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—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)