Ruth. 100 words. Episode 3x03. Not my characters.
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Ruth likes Adam.
She feels guilty for it, as if she's somehow being disloyal to Tom. She knows it's ridiculous; knows that Adam is not to blame for Tom's breakdown.
So maybe Adam is not the reason for her guilt. Maybe Ruth feels she should have seen the signs sooner; she should have said something to someone.
She should have been a better friend, she thinks, even as she knows that what happened was inevitable. The brightest agents are the ones who burn out the quickest and those around them cannot do anything but watch and wait for the fallout.