[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(18-01-2011 04:29 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  Losing Ros was probably a huge blow to Lucas, and I can't help but wonder if that push him further into losing his mind in Series 9. Because in my view, if Ros had been around, maybe Series 9 would have ended differently, Ros had that unique ability of reading Lucas and calming him down that Harry never seemed to grasp.

What do you suppose Ros might have done, though, in the context of the Lucas-is-John storyline? It's hard to imagine that she would have been as indulgent of John's actions in Dakar as she was of Malcolm's insider trading. We cannot suppose that she would have played a part in getting Albany to the Chinese so Lucas-is-John could flee the country with braindead Maya. Even if her presence had had sufficient influence somehow to avert the whole Albany / Vaughan spiral of doom, the script would still have insisted that Lucas is, well, John. I'm not convinced Ros would be okay with this. She took the hard decision when it came to Jack Colville, and she would almost certainly have done the same in the case of Lucas-is-John. I don't see how, in terms of the storyline, the presence of Ros would have changed the outcome (although it may have changed the means by which the outcome was reached). I'm entirely willing to be convinced otherwise