Series 9 Episode 5 Discussion

[NightOwl]

(20-10-2010 11:37 AM)Tea Lady Wrote:  I know what people are saying about Ruth and I was conerned about her being the betrayer before the series started, and yes she has changed, but... I think we are running out of time for her to be the betrayer. There are only 3 episodes left so there will be limited time for a back story when we have the whole Lucas/John thing to resolve as well as the HR thing. Blake was a betrayer but so is Lucas now. He has betrayed his Country by taking that Albany file which has been passed on to god knows who, and he set another officer up. To also throw Ruth into the hat as a betrayer, just would be too much for one series. Ruth has changed, but changed in a positive way. She has grown up and I don't mean that to be patronising in any way.

I think now that Ruth is the betrayer as well. There's still too much we don't know about Albany and Lucas/Vaughn to say that Lucas is the betrayer. Lucas passed information to Kachimov as part of a plan to bring him down. It's possible he's also has similar (crackpot?) scheme to bring down Vaughn. Somebody must have told Vaughn how to find Lucas/John.

To me the biggest argument against Ruth as the ultimate betrayer is that it risks antagonizing a huge amount of the audience.