[spoilers] Lucas Discussion 2

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(07-03-2011 07:42 PM)DogSoSmall Wrote:  I think Harry's line about betrayal is brilliant and completely apposite. He is saying it as he hands Lucas back his gun, don't forget. I have alway thought that he is saying to Lucas that he is going to trust him to stick to his word and do the right thing and bring Vaughn in, and that if Lucas chooses to betray his trust it will be on Lucas's conscience, not Harry's.

Harry has been betrayed before by members of his team - by Tessa, Tom, Beth, Connie - to name but a few. He could easily go down the route of ceasing to trust anyone. If he allowed the betrayals to eat away at his soul, he would not be able to continue functioning. He has to be able to trust that his team are as loyal as he is himself so that they can work as a single unit. He is a brilliant leader, as by showing his team that he trusts them implicitly he encourages them to live up to his expectations. If they don't, and they betray him, he knows that it will be them that suffers the consequences in their soul. And that shows some wisdom on Harry's part as that is of course what happens - Lucas cannot cope with the choices he has made and he kills himself. Harry has trusted him and believed him and tried to persuade him to come back and however much he may torture himself that he should have done more, his aim has never been to deliberately betray a member of his team.

That line did initially annoy me (seemed a tad melodramatic... I dislike lines that make me cringe inwardly a little) but I love your interpretation of it. It's true; Harry does continue to place his trust in people. Not necessarily because he wants to, but rather because he has to. His team would crumble and fall-apart without trust, as S9 has so aptly proved.