[spoilers] Harry and Lucas

[DogSoSmall]

I completely agree, this is unquestionably a matter of very poor writing. You just can't delve into these complicated, psychological studies of relationships unless you have a clear idea about the motives of your characters. Intelligent viewers like to be given the chance to work things out for themselves without having it all spelled out on the screen, but you look at the intelligent people on here left bemused trying to look for a credible explanation for the end of series 9 and failing because, frankly, the credible explanation simply doesn't exist. I think sometimes the writers believe their own press: "Spooks. Oh yes, I rarely understand what they're talking about, but the whole family loves it". They have taken this to extremes and been very lazy in assuming people will just accept that they haven't understood, but it was no doubt all very clever. I feel really sorry for the actors, particularly Richard Armitage but also Peter Firth. They believe they are developing a character one way and then are faced with a script that must seem as unbelievable to them as it does to us, and they have to try and make us believe it. RA and PF did an incredible job under the circumstances, proved by the fact that people are still discussing it instead of just dropping the whole thing in disgust. It doesn't bode well for series 10 though. If they keep the same writers and let them think they have got away with this shoddy work, god knows what they'll have them all doing on the grid next year. I thought PF (god of the micro-expression) looked a bit peeved about the whole thing this time around. Can't say I blame him.