Most despicable series 9 character?

[binkie]

Good thinking in making this thread

Let me be the first person to say that the real villain of the piece for me is whoever was responsible for the risible Lucas-is-John storyline, followed closely by the person or persons who should have suggested a better alternative... and didn't.

As for actual characters:
1. Dr Kirby (ep3), who had trained his child from an early age to accept her death at the hands of others. The cynic in me thinks it is no wonder Harry was so morally lenient on him in the end
2. Robert Westhouse (ep2), who really was all the things Finn Lambert was so keen to expose in 8.3. Just because he wasn't an unusual kind of wicked (for Spooks anyway) doesn't mean we shouldn't notice his wickedness, or that we should think it is irrelevant
3. John Bateman (whoever he is/was), because he represented harm to Malcolm, and that's just not on!