[spoilers] Lucas Discussion 2

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(22-03-2011 02:50 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  I think all through series 7 there was that sense that Harry was somehow responsible for Lucas spending 8 years in prison. But in 7.8, when Connie asked Lucas 'who do you blame' and he replied 'Harry, I blame Harry', Connie told him it was time to let it go because it was her fault and that she was to blame. I think that scene was meant to 'draw a line' under that particular theory, and Lucas accepted that Harry was not to blame and therefore move on.

Agreed. However, there is also a rather more sinister undertone, if you are inclined to see things that way (which, apparently, I am). Connie's reassurance, and Lucas' acceptance of it, always remind me of what Kachimov says to Lucas in 7.2, about Harry's decision to trust Lucas coming from a pre-existing desire to trust him.

I like this interpretation because it plays up nicely the extent to which Connie, as well as being mistress of her own fate in suicidally volunteering to disarm the bomb, retains her investment in the fate of others. Whether she is telling the truth or just telling Lucas what he so plainly wants to hear (that it was not Harry who sold him out to the Russians), she saves London from a nuclear winter, she saves Lucas from his self-destroying irresolution, and she saves Harry from the potential consequences of Lucas' unsettled blame-casting.