Series 10 - Episode 6 Discussion

[Tea Lady]

I would assume the partnership agreement held. I doubt that Russia ever found out what had really gone on with Elena's death. To cancel the partnership agreement would have played into the ultra nationalists hands.

Going back to Ruth's...err...passing... I can see why she did step forward. I posted elsewhere that it was because Sasha had just lost his mother and perhaps both parents. Ruth knows what it is like for a child to lose a parent, in her own life and with Nico. I'm not surprised she pushed herself forward. I just would have expected Harry to have anticipated what Sasha was going to do. If Sasha didn't have a weapon, he certainty was going to use his fists.