[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[theeyeshaveit]

I agree with Whiteswan (and Bravonine in some respects).

I am fully behind the observation that he behaves like two people, the effectively functioning Lucas and the basket case John, and switches between them as if he gets signals - whatever they may be. If that is what is happening to him and we eventually learn why, all will be explained fine for me.

If he is just Lucas behaving this way for the reasons given so far, this Lucas does not make sense to me. He must be desperate and ruthless in order to let Daniella dies in his arms, something a normal Lucas would not be. Yet a few minutes earlier, he was normal Lucas. He already knew Daniella knew something dangerous about him and that one slip of anything she knew would land him with awkward questions, yet when presented with a perfect excuse to kill her, it was a huge struggle for him to do and he did his normal Lucas thing and went to everything he could think of to avoid doing it. I think in that short time he had come to respect and like her. After doing his utmost to save her and seeming upset she had been shot, she utters Albany and his realising she is a bit more danger to him than he thought, suddenly turns him into this desperate and ruthless person that can calculatingly take her life to save his own neck.

That is a transformation that does not ring true for me, and I hope he let Daniella die for other reasons. At the killing point, after getting orders from a false Harry on his normal communication channels, he knows something really bad has happened at the grid and he must be in doubt that the grid and/or Harry still exist. There are so many complications possible in his reasoning that arise from this and it makes it hard for me to buy that he only has himself on his mind at that time and has gone from operationally functioning Lucas to totally private Lucas, in a matter of minutes just because he found Daniella was a bit more danger to him than he first thought. Where would his personal troubles be rating in those few minutes if he is contemplating that Harry is dead at that time? Not first, foremost and only for mine.