[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[WhiteSwan]

(25-11-2010 09:12 PM)Annie Wrote:  Sorry to derail the discussion, but this has been bothering me forever. When are we told that Lucas only spent 4 years in isolation? I always had the impression he was alone for the full 8 years. In 7.2 he tells Harry that Kachimov was his only company (Oleg is probably one of those he didn't concider "company"), and that he spent 8 years getting to know the man. No mention of ever having cell mates. But, exactly WHO did those dratted tattoos on him? Were Oleg or smoke-lady artistically inclined?

My theory is that during that interview with Harry and Ros, who both seem to be rather suspicious and almost hostile towards Lucas, he simply doesn't tell them the whole truth. He has his own plans regarding Kachimov, he uses the situation to fire a little arrow at Harry (with the remark "he implied you weren't in much of a hurry to get me back") and he more or less does what he had told Kachimov on the phone, i.e. tell Harry and Ros that Kachimov was actually rather nice. But that's all there is to it. At least in my mind Lucas spent some time in Lubjanka, then some time in normal prisons with normal criminals (one way of trying to wear him down and break him) and in between those 4 years with Darshavin.

But just to come back once more to the scene on the rooftop. It's the only scene I've seen of episode 8 and I will probably never watch the rest of the episode, but at that point I have to say that I simply didn't care anymore. Because the episode wasn't anymore about Lucas, it was about that ruthless killer JB, who had nothing in common with Lucas and in that last scene stood there full of self-pity and without the courage to face the consequences of his evil doings. So Harry could have done nothing in this situation to save Lucas, because Lucas wasn't there. He could have done a lot for Lucas in series 7 and 8, but I see the storyarc about JB as completely detached from Lucas' experience in prison and in fact completely detached from Lucas' character.