Series 9 Episode 6 discussion

[Tea Lady]

This is going into the speculation arena again but if Ruth IS revealed as a traitor in the final episodes (which I don't suspect for one minute, not because of some blind loyalty to the character, but because there has been no evidence whatsoever on screen, put forward to date, that she is) then fine. As others have said, there will be a good reason for this I am sure, and her fans will have to deal with it. This still does not mean that Lucas is not a traitor for what he has done to date (stealing files, setting up another officer.) It just seems to me that there are a lot of people here that think that by making Ruth a traitor, means that Lucas isn't? I fail to understand that thinking at all.

As for Blake, he wasn't a "decent politician," as Harry called him, all the time. Going back to the Iran triggers crisis he had the team almost killed.

Ruth was proud that Lucas had figgered out that it wasn't Harry on the phone. Her reaction was nothing else but pride. As others have said, she doesn't hate Lucas and is more worried about him. She didn't go shouting and screaming to Harry at the end. She just told him, he was in trouble. Lets not forget that Ruth has been "in trouble" herself, passing information to Downing Street in series 2/3? Adam and Harry helped her here, before it got out of hand. Now she has gone to Harry for him to help Lucas. Again, she could have gone over Harry's head, like Ros did in 5.5, but she didn't. If Ruth really wanted to screw both Harry and Lucas over by now, she could have already done it. She also could have grassed Harry up over his "mistakes of judgement" in recent operations, if she wanted to get at hime, but she didn't.