Episode 3 Discussion

[JHyde]

I doubt very much she could have crammed everything's she missed since she got back, nor could all those movers and shakers be entirely the same since she left. Lately I've been thinking a lot about that conversation Harry and Ruth have at the end of Series 4, the one where Harry talks about his "limitations" and then says "self control, self denial - these are the things that keep us together in this job." Will these words haunt him this season? He then calls her "a born Spook". And she is - I don't think someone who compulsively sponges information and analyses it like Ruth ever lets that go. It would have been more low key, and maybe she only "stumbles" upon it when looking for other things, but I doubt very much that her life was as empty of her former life as she claims.

I wrote in the episode 1 summary how much I loved it that she described her life in Cyprus as "elegant". Fantastic choice of words for her by Ben Richards.