[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[Silktie]

I agree whole-heartedly that it was a rather nonsensical storyline to give Lucas, and even to someone like me who liked Lucas well enough but wasn't really emotionally invested in him, it doesn't ring true to the Lucas presented to us the previous few series. But now that they've done it, I'm interested to know what everyone thinks about Lucas/John if we have to accept the story given to us as truth?

Can we really blame anyone else for his situation, seeing as he was the one who made his own choices all along? He's the one who chose to plant that bomb, and who chose to kill the real Lucas North and steal his identity. And when Vaughn came back to haunt him, he chose to deceive, lie and even let people die to keep his secret rather than come clean. Then, when he learnt what Albany really was, he still gave it to the Chinese.

I guess what I'm wondering is if all this, if you put it on a balance sheet against enduring eight years and torture in a Russian prison, makes him come out even or not?