‘I do think she’s heartbroken,’ Vicky Jones says.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for theRunseason 1 finale.
He wanted her to choose him, or at least admit to him that she knew he loved her.
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But Ruby walked away to her family without saying a word.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: It looked like Ruby might answer Billy, but then she walks away without saying anything.
Does she really love him?
Or did his video just make it easier for her not to choose him over her family?
Because she’s got her kids and her husband.
The whole thing, in some ways it’s just a bit of emotional tourism.
Just to see that with him and then go home.
I feel like she loves him so much.
She does feels wonderful when she’s with him.
Maybe she didn’t expect that to happen.
When he says that speech to her, she thinks, “I am going to work this out.
I’m going to make this happen.”
So maybe when she sees that video, it is a relief.
I do think she’s heartbroken by walking away from him.
Can Ruby really just go back?
I expect Laurence will have a lot of questions.
He doesn’t do anything.
He doesn’t change the nappies.
He doesn’t pick up the clothes."
That kind of thing.
The truth is always more nuanced, isn’t it?
I hope he’s not that bad.
He does have the right to be really upset and really, really angry at what’s happened.
She’s walking home to a mess, for sure.
That speech Billy gives on the train is a hell of a promise.
Does he really mean those things?
He is, as Ruby points out, very good at selling himself.
I’ve always felt he was a liar.
That doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.
He just is addicted to saying what people want him to say.
That was something that we knew for sure right from the beginning.
That moment when he says all that stuff, she feels it and she believes him.
It knocks her over that it’s happened.
But when she finds out that, it doesn’t really matter if he did the book.
He planned the book.
He took their sacred pact and he planned to use it for his for his own personal gain.
That’s certainly how she feels at the end of episode 7.
She feels like she doesn’t even know who he is, that he betrayed everything.
I think he will have to answer.
I don’t want to say what happens next.
Ruby just delicately sidestepped that whole thing [and they] actually ran away from it because of her.
He is just going to have to face the music.
That would be ridiculous.
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Is it possible, even subconsciously, that he purposefully helped Fiona to her death?
He couldn’t have known that the farming equipment was in the in the hay.
It’s absolutely possible that he got angry with her.
He let go of her hand, but she was screaming, “Let me go!”
So I don’t know, does that make him guilty?
It’s not ideal for his conscience if he has one, which he definitely does.
I think he has a good conscience.
She ended up playing a fun, unexpected role in the series.
Did you write it specifically for her?
We had an idea she would be in it.
It was a very natural thing for her to contribute as well.
She’s a great singer, and I wanted her to sing “I Will Always Love You.”
She was actively trying to have a go at self-improvement.
But that notion of escape.
Those old romantic ideas of trains as well: Hitchock and theBeforetrilogy, by Richard Linklater.
Also, just the challenge of it.
Was that something you were drawing on at all?
Somebody who feels like she’s living a truly three-dimensional Technicolor existence like women I know.
It feels really necessary to consciously write flawed characters like that.
What made you want into jump in on both those things and pick them apart with Ruby?
In part, it’s just how dare we be made to feel like that?
It’s the mother-whore thing, isn’t it?
You’re supposed to be this perfect mother that’s completely obsessed with your baby against all self.
And then when a man wishes you to, you’re supposed to be available.
It’s all just very, very fed up… People are constantly siding with the child against you.
I wanted to tell a story of a woman that had happened to.
I think many, many people have done that.
And then sex, I mean, f that.
Women pretending they’re not interested in sex has got to be resigned to history.
That’s just plain not true or interesting.
Not most, but plenty.
