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(14-11-2010 07:02 AM)Silktie Wrote:  It would not have helped Lucas to kill Vaughn earlier. We know that from the start the Chinese was aware of Lucas and Maya, and would simply have stepped into the void created by Vaughn's death and continue to blackmail him by threatening Maya.

This is an interesting point, but surely the Chinese only knew of Lucas because they had Vaughn under surveillance, as he mentions in 9.7 (not being allow to find the bugs). If Lucas had killed Vaughn early on the Chinese may not have made the connection.
Also Vaughn wouldn't have told the Chinese what he was using to blackmail Lucas because they may have cut him out of the deal. As it was, it was Lucas that approached the Chinese with a deal, not the other way round suggesting the Chinese did not know what to blackmail him with.