Plot-holes

[Byatil]

(25-01-2011 01:39 AM)binkie Wrote:  

(25-01-2011 01:18 AM)Byatil Wrote:  Lucas-is-John killed Lucas-really-Lucas because Vaughn suggested he should, did he not? Vaughn handed Lucas-is-John the suitcase that was to blow up the embassy with Lucas-is-John thinking that he could trust him.

A fair recollection, but true only in the version of events told to Harry. Vaughan reminds / informs Lucas-is-John that it was, in fact, his own idea to off Lucas-really-Lucas AND that he knew full well the purpose of the package he carried into the embassy. As for being under the impression of being helped, I'd think someone as feckless and self-serving as Lucas-is-John wouldn't really be that fussed about the quality of his relationship with Vaughan, so long as there is a chance that Vaughan might change his mind about helping. Lucas-is-John is all about threats and opportunities. Once Vaughan witnesses the murder of Lucas-really-Lucas, he becomes a threat. Realistically, Lucas-is-John would not have left alive anyone who could identify him as not-Lucas.

Completely playing the role of the devils advocate here

There's always the possibility that Lucas-is-John was simply too scared to do anything to Vaughn. We're supposed to believe him to be the naive University student who has become caught-up in a drug-trafficking scheme, so it doesn't seem implausible that he wouldn't be the most confident of people at age 19/20.

As we've seen with Lucas' character (not sure if it really 'counts' in the context of S9, but onwards nevertheless) he's obsessed with the idea of controlling his surroundings. Vaughn represents a threat, as you say, in that he cannot be controlled. But as we've seen with Dasharvin in 8.4, Lucas is extremely scared when he loses control of a situation. Could it be said that the same thing happened in regards to his relationship with Vaughn? Lucas realised he had no control over Vaughn and panicked, fleeing Dakar and presumably hoping to bury his head in the sand over the whole ordeal. It could even be argued that he learnt from this experience, and that it was in fact the reason as to why Lucas has such a compulsion to control (once again completely disregarding the fact that it was apparently Russia that affected his personality in S7+8).