Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

[HellsBells]

(11-11-2010 03:48 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  

(11-11-2010 03:29 PM)tastiger Wrote:  I thought the scene with Lucas & Maya driving away while the MI-5 team was shooting at them really quite unbelievable. Why didn't they follow Lucas' car...???? Didn't the MI-5 team have their own transportation? So even Lucas knows they aren't following him since he's yelling to Maya that they made it...Maya is dead, MI-5 let him just drive off, and Lucas has his meeting with the Chinese......Did I miss something from that scene? Since I refuse to re-watch this episode I'm counting on anyone who can make some sense out of this.

They were tracking Maya and trying to follow Lucas, but Tariq said that back-up was 11 minutes away with C0-19 and air support so that would have been too late as by then Lucas and Maya would have been gone since the Chinese had their escape route ready.

At least this is from what I can understand. This whole plot is still very unreal for me.

I only re-watched the episodes because the acting was so amazing.

This is my thinking on the shoot out. Lucas shoots out the tyres on the MI5 car. Notice he doesn't aim at his friends, unlike them who seem to target Lucas and Maya to stop them at any cost. The MI5 officers then transfer to Lucas' discarded car, and I'm assuming he took the keys and therefore it is going to take them some time to get it going, more than enough time for Lucas to get to the helicopter. If Maya had lived then I sure that Lucas would have thrown the tracking device out of the window along the way. As it was he didn't need to.
And as BravoNine states back-up was too far away.