Series 9 Episode 3 discussion

[Hunted]

I was really fearful of last week's introduction of Maya as the new Lucas love-interest. So now we are on love-of-his-life no. 3. It's boring! I fear for his character because if this continues, Lucas/John 'whatever' will become one-dimensional. We don't need his good-looks and love scenes to enjoy Lucas as a character in his own right. C'mon, where's the angst over the decisions he makes in his job; and what he did in his past that was so awful. And Vaughan. Why again do we have Lucas pining over a women?

Contrast this with the treatment of the HR love story. I hope this one does progress, because if it doesn't in this series; then I think the Spooks writers' have a fundamental problem with writing a thead about love & indeed passion between two people in their mid-40's and 50's.

On the plus side, Beth has plenty of guts, I like her. Like many have said, we know nothing of Dimitri yet, and where he is going to fit into the team. A very nice twist at the end with the video footage to fool the Russian ambassador; and I laughed out load at Harry's presentation to him of a medal of honour for the fallen soldier. It was classic Harry humour! A very entertaining episode but we were left with very little progression in the Lucas backstory. But it felt more Spooks of old, a one-shot episode with a contained theme, and I really liked that!! More please!