Plot-holes

[Jackk14]

(19-04-2011 10:05 AM)WhiteSwan Wrote:  

(18-04-2011 11:46 PM)Jackk14 Wrote:  Despite John acting as Lucas, he'd still been a spy for the British for a while, so whatever his identity he still knew stuff about the Security Services that the Russians could use. I think they would assume that the British SS had carried out the neccessary checks to ascertain who Lucas was, and the Russians wouldn't bother, they'd just torture him for the information.

They kept him simply because he was a spy and was probably caught spying on the Russians.

If Lucas had in reality been John, there would have been no need to torture him. He would have made a deal with the Russians, giving them all the information they wanted and betraying his country without a moment's hesitation in exchange for being happily reunited with the love of his life. Because John Bateman wasn't someone prepared to suffer for any higher moral values, he was portrayed to us as a treacherous wimp whose only real interest in life was to be back in the arms of Maya. That's why that whole story just doesn't make any sense at all.

Towards the end of S9 "Lucas" says he regretted killing Lucas and wanted to do all the good he would have done in the service. "Lucas" was a real British Spy but he got into it all for the wrong reasons and the wrong way. At that time he believed he was Lucas and acted accordingly. He wouldn't pop up and be like "by the way my real names John, got any jobs going Mr Russian?"