[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[WhiteSwan]

In this argument I'm definitely more on the side of theeyeshaveit, because I just can't believe Lucas would act in such a stupid and evil way when being blackmailed. He's intelligent enough and well trained enough to know how to deal with a blackmailer. Time and again he's reacted in a very calm, controlled way in many extremely difficult situations, so why would he break after meeting Vaughn a couple of times and taking one look at a photograph of Maya - that seriously can't put more pressure on him than 8 years of imprisonment and torture? What's puzzling me is the fact that Vaughn doesn't really threaten him with telling Harry about his secret. He only tries that once and Lucas reacts just as he should - he calmly suggests to call Harry immediately. It doesn't really matter if this was a bluff or not, what's important to me is the fact that the fear of loosing Harry's trust, his work at MI5, his "family" at MI5 apparently can't be what all of that is really about, because in that moment he still is in control. It's only when Vaughn threatens to tell Maya that Lucas gives up every resistance and forgets all about honour, moral values and everything he had fought for for such a long time. So he's willing to risk his life, his freedom, his existance for a woman he had not seen or thought of for 15 years. I'm sorry, but I find that impossible to believe.

There was another thing that seemed very strange to me in 9.6: when he receives "Harry's" order to kill the girl he still is the Lucas we know - he questions the order, he refuses to kill an innocent civilian and he's intelligent enough to find out the truth. And he keeps protecting her, even though she threatens to tell about the little excursion to Malcolm's house, even though he knows she could be a risk to him. And in the instance she says the word "Albany" he switches from Lucas to John, from good to evil. (By the way, I can't see one single good reason, why she should suddenly mention Albany, but that's a point for discussion in the 9.6 thread). I desperately hope we will get a convincing explanation for that. Plus an explanation why he doesn't kill Vaughn. Something better than just saying "oh, if he killed Vaughn we wouldn't have had a storyline anymore"