Series 9 rumours - possible spoilers......

[Tea Lady]

Just going back a bit, RA does mention the new American administration, China, and Russia, as being the Countries involved in S9 in his interview. So Russia is part of the storyline, but then again in saying that, it probably does feature somewhere in most series of Spooks. If you listen to the interview, RA's reaction when he is speaking about when he first read the script, is almost comical, in that he was totally amazed that his character was heading in that direction. If he was just penned in as being a Russian mole, I don't think he would have reacted in such a way. That's just my opinion though. I just read it like, it is something completely off the wall.