[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(14-01-2011 02:36 AM)Byatil Wrote:  Lucas' relationship with Sarah is something I'm keen to analyse in a bit more depth. I thought it was strange that he should so willingly accept her apology in 8.4 after finding out that she had been attempting to spy on him. They have a massive argument, yet as soon as she is taken hostage all is forgiven? Why is Lucas so quick to trust the people who hurt him? A symptom of Stockholm Syndrome? (as Harry might like to point out!)

I don't know if this will make any sense.......

But I always thought that Lucas's relationship with Sarah and his willingness to continue to be with her and love her stemmed from this need to be loved, feel loved, and feel like he could achieve something and be useful and important in someone's eyes. Part of me thinks that it comes from the loss of Elizabeta, and another part comes from what he suffered through in those 8 years and his return back to MI5.

When he came back he lost Elizabeta, the love of his life. He obviously cared so much about her but he finds out that she has moved on, and he isn't important to her anymore and it's a sudden and harsh loss for him to deal with, and then Sarah comes into his life and there's a part of him that feels like he can be loved again and be an important person in someone's life, and that since Sarah understands his job, she would not walk away and hate him like Elizabeta did.

And then there's the part of him that needs to feel like he can achieve something and mean something to another person after he was humiliated and degraded into nothing through his 8 years in Russia. And considering in his return, he rather feels like people have moved on without him and he's not all that important to MI5, having Sarah makes him feel like he's needed, and he is not just "nothing", that he can achieve something and mean something special to Sarah.

I don't think he really loved her the way he says he does, I think what he was in love with was the idea of her and what she can bring to him and how she makes him feel. He needed someone to fill that void and emptiness in his life and Sarah did it, and I think that's why he was also so keen to hold onto it til the very end. He needed it, he fears losing it would destroy him.

I think that's the part of him that's never really healed after what happened in Russia, a part of him fears to be un-important and not achieve and be useful.