Series 9 Episode 6 discussion

[Silktie]

Awesome episode! Malcolm still rocks, how great was it to see him back?

Like most everyone else, I have absolutely no idea what is going on. At this point I suspect everyone of having ulterior motives for everyhting they do. One thing is certain, though, Lucas is dead to me after what happened in this episode. If he hadn't lost the blonde one's security detail in the first place to go after Malcolm, they would have known much sooner something was wrong on the Grid. Plus, he would have had help during that ambush, and Danielle would probably have survived. Lucas definitely ended the call to the emergency services the moment Danielle uttered the word Albany, and then only pretended to make it to fool her. He then took his fingers off her wound so that she would bleed to death faster, and probably then called the emergency services again so no-one would realise what he'd done.

That said, it was a fantastic performance from RA, he really ran with what they gave him. Well done, sir.

Loved Harry snarking the cyberterrorists over the camera, loved Dimitri and Beth as well.

But MALCOLM was back! The highlight of the episode for me. I got really worried when Malcolm dug up the VERY SECRET Albany file from his garden at first - I was thinking he could have at least put it in a safety deposit box or something... Great twist that it was false information, and that Malcolm was onto the game from the start. I have no clue how this all fits together, and who knows what. I'll have to wait and see.

The main problem of the Lucas storyline, for me, is that we still don't know what happened in his past to make him act like this. Now we have no idea whether it is something that is really so terrible that he cannot go to Harry and confess all, and we have no perspective on why this has had such an impact on him. Harry, it seems, is unwilling to believe anything bad about Lucas, and I can't help but think if Lucas had only gone straight to Harry the moment Vaughn contacted him, Harry would have been willing to help him sort it out.