Series 9 Rumours & Speculation

[theeyeshaveit]

I have been listening to an extensive interview RA recorded one month before the end of filming in which there is no hint, and seems no likelihood whatever from what he says that Lucas will be leaving Spooks in the known future. They still had episode 1 to do because they had had trouble finding a boat, but it sounded like he had at least seen a script for ep 8 and he says that 'the ticking bomb at the climax involves the lives of our team'.

When talking about how people exit the show, he says about Lucas' exit 'they haven't made a decision about how its going to be, when it's going to be, I mean we don't know if Spooks is going to go on. If it does, I don't know - we just don't know what is going to happen to the characters'.

RA also says he has asked them for a non violent death but he has no idea how they will achieve that. Being pushed, falling or jumping off a building does not seem to fit that bill to me.

RA also spoke of his 2011 big projects as Strike Back and Spooks with no hint of another big thing. He mentioned he had a project between Spooks and Xmas this year which he could not talk about but expected a press release about it before the interview aired (on 19/9), and that would have been Captain America.

From all this, some of what is happening and what the BBC previews talk about seems a bit incompatible with RA's interview. I feel pretty sure The Hobbit was not in the frame when he did the interview and if he was scheduled to die in episode 8, he did not seem to know about it at the time of this interview. Maybe they had just not told him yet, but given there was at least a month of filming and post production yet to be done, maybe The Hobbit did come into the picture in that time and things changed, including Lucas' story line and possible ending. Richard also comments in the interview about the scripts being a work in progress and how they rely on the editors to put it together and make sense of what they have done.

I am sort of back to hoping again that Lucas will be alright.