[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(28-10-2010 06:27 PM)WhiteSwan Wrote:  I absolutely agree!
Now I've read the spoiler and I have to say that the story still doesn't work for me and that I still find it totally unbelievable - unless there is much more to it. Up to a certain point I could buy that theme of guilt and redemption and the story about someone who has done something terribly wrong and then regrets it and tries to make up for it. Ok, joining MI5 is a bit of an odd choice (I always thought they had at least some sort of vetting process, but obviously I was wrong) and I suspect we will never get an answer to the question what made him regret what he had done. But I would be willing to go along with that. I could even understand that someone like that would do anything to protect that secret. But that's where the credibility ends for me. Because why on earth doesn't Lucas do the obvious, which would be killing Vaughn? He's supposed to be intelligent, so he should know how dangerous it is to give in to blackmail. Why doesn't he hesitate to frame an innocent colleague and to let an innocent girl bleed to death if he could have solved the problem by getting rid of Vaughn, who I suspect is not innocent. No one so far could give me a good explanation for that. In fact no-one ever tried. There are some theories out there about why Vaughn has that power over Lucas and I could live with most of them. But my fear is that we will never get an answer, that the writers just wanted to tell us something really new and interesting and didn't bother to give us an explanation. I would be more than happy to be wrong on this one, but from all you hear or read it will just be a simple story about someone suddenly turning from good to evil and acting completely out of character. Because Lucas' behaviour for me is just that, it's completely out of character. And I'm not saying this only because I've seen how he behaved in series 7 and 8. When you listen to the commentary to 7.8 they say about him: "What I like about Lucas is the fact that Lucas seems to be driven by a moral fire. He has this kind of moral anger in his core. And this makes him totally different to the rest of the team and to previous leading men." And they go on saying how similar Lucas is to Harry in that respect. And now we are meant to believe that someone with that moral fire would ruin/kill innocent people without batting an eyelid? If they don't give us a very good reason for that and if they don't tell us why Vaughn has that influence over Lucas then I really would be very disappointed and very angry.

I wouldn't say that the secret that Lucas is hiding explains everything about this storyline, but I would say that for me personally, it is BEGINNING to start making sense why he has gone all forms of crazy and desperation. I can see why he is so desperate now, why he is willing to do anything to keep this a secret, and why he fears Maya and Harry knowing. I can understand that he fears to loose MI5, loose Maya, loose his love and home.

BUT you make a good point in asking why doesn't Lucas just kill Vaughn. That is what I question too! So hopefully there is an explanation why Lucas has had so many chances to kill Vaughn but he didn't.