Plot-holes

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(15-03-2011 10:49 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  What they need to do is keep their archives in the toilets!

So here are my questions to all plot-holers. Are there plot holes in S9 that you would have accepted at face value or been willing to overlook if there hadn't been so doggone many of them? Because, lets be honest, the willing suspension of disbelief has always been necessary to some extent with Spooks from the beginning. Is there one (or two) plot holes above all others that, if they hadn't done them or had explained them sufficiently, would have made the Lucas portion of S9 work for you? Accepting the idea of Lucas as an evil sociopath of epic proportions as a given, I am curious to find out what did work for you and/or how you would have fixed what didn't work for you to make it work for you.

I know what you mean A Cousins any series of Spooks does have plot-holes in if you scrutinize it enough. But with series 9 the writers were asking us to completely change our view of a character that we had been watching for two series and therefore needed an exceptionally strong story to show that.

Plot-holes that should have been filled and would allow me to accept their version of Lucas:
1) Why would a stranded student in Dakar think nothing of bombing up his own country's embassy and killing fellow countrymen, was he just that mercenary?
2) How he got to MI5 and why. He had money and a new identity and was apparently an evil sociopath he didn't need MI5.
3) Why didn't Lucas just kill Vaughn.

I also wanted more of an explanation as to how someone can live a completely different life for 15 years, not just a different name but a totally different set of moral values.