Ruth Evershed is a fictional Senior Intelligence Analyst seconded from GCHQ to MI5, featured in the British television series Spooks, known as MI-5 in the United States.
41 Facts About Ruth Evershed
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Ruth Evershed returned in 2009 and continued her role until her character's death in the final episode of series 10.
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Ruth Evershed was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she studied classics.
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Ruth Evershed was introduced in Series 2 as an intelligence analyst, seconded from GCHQ.
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Ruth Evershed formed strong bonds with Tom Quinn, Zoe Reynolds, Danny Hunter and in particular Harry Pearce.
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The date goes well and they bond over their desire to travel for something other than their work, and Ruth Evershed is intrigued by Harry's implicit offer that she could travel with him on such a tour.
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Ruth Evershed had settled down in Polis, Cyprus with a Cypriot doctor and his son.
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Ruth Evershed is willing to give up the knowledge to save the boy but Harry refuses, leading to a falling out between them even though the boy survives.
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Ruth Evershed says she can come back to Section D if she needs work.
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Ruth Evershed secures her to a chair and gags her again, but after giving his demands he ungags her, and when she asks to speak to Lucas he says he is not there.
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Ruth Evershed denies this is the reason and prepares a report detailing her role in several operations.
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Ruth Evershed turns to Ruth for help, telling only her that someone had been contacting Elena posing as him.
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Ruth Evershed reveals that he and Elena had been lovers and that Sasha Gavrik is their son.
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Ruth Evershed begins to investigate CIA Deputy Director Jim Coaver on Harry's command, since he was the only other person involved in turning Elena into an MI5 asset during the Cold War, but her faith in Harry begins to falter and she turns her attention to his and Coaver's shared past.
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Ruth Evershed meets Elena to collect the messages sent to her by someone who they believe is Jim Coaver.
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However, Ruth Evershed finds it difficult to believe and trust Elena as an asset because of her personal feelings for Harry.
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Ruth Evershed warns her to stop looking into his past but Ruth follows him, and finds that it is his car she saw earlier making the exchange with Duran, playing a key role in gathering evidence against him and proving he is indeed the impersonator.
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Ruth Evershed informs Harry at the end of episode about the Home Secretary's offer.
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Ruth Evershed asks if there are more, and he answers truthfully that there are.
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Ruth Evershed then asks for his advice on the offer made by Towers.
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Ruth Evershed encourages her to take it, not because he wants to lose her but because he does not want her involved in what is coming.
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In episode 5 Ruth is working for the Home Office under the command of the Home Secretary, and liaises between both Home Office and Section D However, when Harry kidnaps Jim Coaver she becomes torn between her love for Harry and loyalty to the Home Secretary.
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Ruth Evershed tries to convince Harry to let Coaver go, believing that he is still in love with Elena Gavrik and its clouding his judgement.
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Ruth Evershed informs the Home Secretary of their whereabouts, but Coaver is taken by a group posing as the CIA and murdered.
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Ruth Evershed meets Harry where he explains to her he is not in love with Elena, but what he feels for her guilt over Sasha which later leads her to question if what he feels for her is guilt.
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Ruth Evershed manages to get the laptop successfully but is ambushed by Sasha who threatens to kill her unless she opens the files.
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Ruth Evershed loses the laptop to Sasha, who then finds out that Harry is his father.
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Ruth Evershed reveals that she has put in an offer on a house in Suffolk, yet she cannot picture herself living there.
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Ruth Evershed reveals that neither Ilya nor Jim Coaver were involved but it was her, that she ordered the attacks and that she had been working for a faction of the KGB since Harry had left her during the Cold War.
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Ruth Evershed's role was to become a plant if Harry had taken her and Sasha to the UK as he had planned to before Coaver stopped him.
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Ruth Evershed speaks to Elena alone and questions her real motives as well as her love for her son Sasha, who she used as an asset to sell the lie to Harry.
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Ruth Evershed finds out alone that Elena and her recruiter's real motive is to let the UK start conflict between Britain and Russia by forcing the UK to shoot down a plane full of civilians.
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Ruth Evershed asks to speak to Ruth alone and then asks her for the key to the room where Elena is being held.
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Ruth Evershed agrees, getting the key from Harry and allows him to speak to his wife, making her responsible for what happens next.
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Outside the bunker, Harry is told the plane is safe and Ruth Evershed joins him on the hillside.
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Ruth Evershed tells him that the reason she left was because she thought there would always be too many secrets between them and that one day she might lose herself in the secrets.
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Ruth Evershed then asks Harry to leave the Service with her, retire and they can have a life together.
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Ruth Evershed accepts, but the moment is broken when Sasha Gavrik appears and threatens to kill Harry after allowing his father into the room to kill his mother.
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Ruth Evershed tells him that she couldn't picture herself living there without him, but he says they will live together.
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Later Harry visits the house Ruth Evershed had bought in Suffolk and then visits the memorial which lists the name of every MI5 officer he has lost engraved into the glass.
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Ruth Evershed was the last character to be killed on Spooks.