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“But all the others who have given up their lives, been sacrificed... I’m not worth more than them. It was my turn, Harry. And that moment, when you decided to make that deal, it was unfair of you to love me.”
Lucas has gone rogue, and the team at the Grid have to put their relationships with him to one side and stop him selling Albany to the Chinese. From the, he’s demanding a new life for himself and Maya, and he’s willing to do anything to get it – even if it means sacrificing Ruth. Heartbroken, Harry realises he may have to choose between keeping a huge state secret and saving the life of the woman he loves. Can he save them both – and the man he knew as Lucas?
This episode had a lot to do to live up to the excitement and promise of last week’s brilliant episode. While this episode was fun to watch, it was back to being full of typical Spooks plot holes and slightly dodgy writing, although (as always) some great moments and amazing acting ultimately made it a fitting end to this series.
While I’ve made no secrets about my problems with Lucas’s storyline in this series, some elements of it worked brilliantly here. I was glad that they didn’t backpedal, sticking to their guns and making him thoroughly bad. He may have had some qualms (not wanting to know what Albany was, for example), and he may have regretted putting Ruth’s life at risk, but, in the end, he did it all. Richard Armitage and his beautiful blue eyes will be missed, but going rogue and jumping off a building is certainly a memorable way to go, and nicely different from the exits of Tom and Adam.
What still didn’t work for me was why he did it. I know I’ve mentioned it constantly for the last few episodes, but, even now, I still didn’t believe that he loved Maya this much. The fact that Lucas has been bad from the start I can buy; the fact that Maya is the love of his life, I can’t. He married someone else, for goodness sake, and when he came back, he spent a whole series pining after her, while Maya wasn’t even mentioned once before the start of this series.
Basically, everything that worked here either involved Peter Firth or Nicola Walker. Harry’s relationship with the Home Secretary has been one of the highlights of this series for me (mostly because Simon Russell Beale is amazing) and I was glad to see that return here. The abduction of Ruth showed just how much Lucas understood Harry, and it forced the two characters to admit that their feelings for each other hadn’t been resolved. Even though the whole “Albany is a fake” thing rang a bit hollow, I loved that Harry clearly knew how Ruth would react, that this wouldn’t cause her to fall into his arms, but he didn’t care: he had to save her. He could lose many people, but not her. Her speech to him, which caused him to go to his possible death to Lucas with dignity, was another example of just how good these two actors are together, and I hope the next series Ruth takes Lucas’s advice and just go for it.
This has been a patchy series of Spooks, often working in spite, not because, of its main storyline. Still, Lucas’s exit was fitting for a character always shrouded in mystery, and pretty much everything involving Harry and Ruth has been compelling. And Dimitri can stay. I love Dimitri.
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