Series 9 Episode 7 discussion

[Angie]

I just can't follow what is happening with Lucas/John in this episode but at one point he looked just as confused as the rest of us viewers. Have to say though that Beth is some focused agent as she fails to spot a man run right past her with a steak knife in his thigh - the same man she saw talking with Lucas!! And then he still managed to run all over London with that knife.....maybe people were just too polite to mention to him that he seemed to have brought a little too attached to his cutlery drawer!

Ruth's scenes were the ones that made my jaw fall. Apart from the flinching I did when she used the iron to free her hands, the way she just lost it in the kitchen was very powerful. You can see the dark, tougher side to Ruth coming on since 9.1 (and probably even in S8 when she returned) and I suppose it was quite believable that she reached that crisis point that day. The poor council man did manage to shoot him in the neck (I think) then the chest, so when she went 'Dirty Harry' on him that was more than was needed, but I think she just had so much pent up anger and rage and panic that she needed to keep shooting. Her face afterwards was so interesting - she looked horrified (I thought) at one point then when she saw Harry it was almost defiant as if she was saying 'see I can do this'.

I'm feeling so bad for her that she realises that she is dead inside and that she is far from the person she was in those earlier years. It is inevitable but she feels such horror at herself, and probably Harry too that she was unlikely to want any comfort at the hospital. Perhaps she thinks she;s not the same person that Harry fell in love with and that they shouldn't even try to comfort eachother.

Whatever she feels in 9.7- I hope she manages to regain a different perspective in 9.8 and not allow herself to be completely dead inside when it comes to her feelings.