Plot-holes

[WhiteSwan]

(18-04-2011 11:46 PM)Jackk14 Wrote:  Despite John acting as Lucas, he'd still been a spy for the British for a while, so whatever his identity he still knew stuff about the Security Services that the Russians could use. I think they would assume that the British SS had carried out the neccessary checks to ascertain who Lucas was, and the Russians wouldn't bother, they'd just torture him for the information.

They kept him simply because he was a spy and was probably caught spying on the Russians.

If Lucas had in reality been John, there would have been no need to torture him. He would have made a deal with the Russians, giving them all the information they wanted and betraying his country without a moment's hesitation in exchange for being happily reunited with the love of his life. Because John Bateman wasn't someone prepared to suffer for any higher moral values, he was portrayed to us as a treacherous wimp whose only real interest in life was to be back in the arms of Maya. That's why that whole story just doesn't make any sense at all.