[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[HellsBells]

(10-01-2011 12:56 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  Take a look at that argument he and Lucas had when Harry told Lucas about Sugar-Horse and asked Lucas to recall his memory from his torture, and then Lucas was enraged and told Harry that "there are limits to what you can ask of people, Harry, even in our line of business", this rather indicates that to Lucas, in his mind, there are some lines you don't cross, and somehow I don't see that with Harry.

I agree that there doesn't seem to be that line that Harry won't cross for his Country (except in series 9 of course, but series 9 never happen did it?). Is this a good trait...I'm not sure. But then Harry hasn't had to give so much as Lucas (8 years of torture) and lacks some empathy with his team, otherwise he would have noticed Jo's problems.
But back in 7.1 Harry told Adam that he was responsible for Lucas' physical and mental well being, but appears to have done nothing. Lucas was far better at empathising with the team, such as spotting Jo's problems, chatting to Ben after the suicide bombings (7.3), even talking to Malcolm in 7.2 about Adam's death, despite his own problems. I think this made Lucas different from many Spooks we seen over the years because he cared about people rather than used them, again similar to Jo.