Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

[Tea Lady]

Ok, let me just throw this into the ring as it's about 50/50 as to whether you liked the ending or not. We have heard multiple stories that Kudos filmed two endings, also from PF's mouth, that Harry got blood on his shirt in the final scene. I didn't see any blood on his shirt.

So, what if there was another ending, one where Lucas redeems himself, and survives. He doesn't throw himself off the roof. What if this was the ending they were going to use BUT as RA got the part in the Hobbit, he has not renewed his contract with Kudos. Hence, they had to go with the other ending, which people would obviously be more disappointed with. Hence we didn't see Lucas actually throw himself off the building, because it wasn't what was going to happen.

I have already said that I felt that Harry standing on the roof in the dark, at the end, didn't seem real. You didn't actually see Harry speak on the phone to the HS, just a voice over. The footage was also the same as the end of 9.1. I think that this was not going to be the original ending. Hence, we didn't get the usual Spooks cliff hanger at the end.

I will probably get shouted at here, but how do the people who are criticising the ending and who hate what happened to Lucas, know that it was not forced upon Kudos because Richard Armitage handed his notice in, at the last moment? I'm not saying that I am correct in this, but how do we know? We don't know but there are several things pointing to this. I have a feeling that this was not the ending Kudos wanted. Also it would have been bleeding obvious that RA would not be in S10 when he was away filming in New Zealand for two years, so what would have been the point of leaving his survival as a cliff hanger.

What I am saying here is, what if Richard Armitage's career choice directly caused the unhappy demise of Lucas, that we saw last night. It this is the case, I don't see how people can be shouting at Kudos or the writers. Perhaps people should be shouting at Richard Armitage himself.

If I were an entertainment journalist, the question I would be asking Kudos is, was there a second ending and was the ending you gave us, the ending you wanted?

Things are never just black and white and if people are thinking that this was a strange ending for a Spooks series, then there is probably more to it than we know.