[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[Saerwen]

(11-01-2011 01:32 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  

(11-01-2011 12:28 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  But Lucas cared enough for Dimitri not to want to leave him on that ship in 9.1, and when he told Dimitri to 'go get a skin-full and start again in the morning' in 9.5 cleared showed he at least he felt for Dimitri and knew him well, although this wasn't shown on screen. There was clearly a gap of time between Ros's funeral, a few days after the bombing, to Lucas and Dimitri being on the container ship, time enough for them to get to know each other.
Lucas' relationship with Beth was never explored enough, clearly he didn't like her at first, but I think he changed his mind, otherwise why ask Harry to keep her on at the end of 9.2.

Lucas also made sure that Dimitri got out first with the information when they were breaking into the Chinese embassy. He risked his own life to serve as a distraction so Dimitri could get out, he didn't need to do that, so clearly he felt enough protectiveness to make sure Dimitri wasn't the one in the line of fire.

And whatever his relationship with Beth may be, he worried about her when the gunshots went off in the elevator in Episode 3, and he also didn't blow her brains out when they were pointing guns at each other in Episode 7.

Lucas may not be particularly close to the new recruits or to Tariq, he may seem to be aloof and not really having a close relationship, but he always made sure they were safe and out of harm's way.

Even when he kidnapped Ruth, if Lucas was a true evil monster, he could have easily just shot Tariq and take Ruth, but he choose to just punch him in the face to knock him aside.

Whatever crazy state Lucas was in, he still had the presence of mind to not harm his younger team members, even when he was firing shots at them, it was only warning shots. In the end he didn't even kill Harry for revenge either.

In the end, he still ended up putting his team's life above his own.

I so agree with you on all that you have written, the only person Lucas was violent to was Vaughan and he should have done something about him earlier, and whose to say what was in the drip that he put into Ruth she could have just woken up when it ran out, the same way the bomb in the station wasn't live just a means to get Harry to where he wanted him,
it was either Dimitri, Beth or Alex who shot Maya and the same way with the running man it was the armed police who opened fire, so apart from the Hacker girl who could have bled out anyway, Lucas didn't have a bodies piling up around London.