[spoilers] Lucas and his tattoos

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(12-12-2010 01:00 PM)Silktie Wrote:  There's something I don't understand: In episode 7.2 Lucas says that for eight years, Katchimov was his only company apart from FSB interrogators. That implies that he was never kept in a normal Russian prison together with other inmates. Why, then, would he have needed to get the tattoos to fit into the prison culture, as he told Harry in episode 7.1?

This is something that was discussed earlier on the Lucas thread, I think. The conclusion we drew was that Lucas was lying to Harry (seeing as Lucas later has a strong link with Dasharvin) in order to gain his trust/sympathy. Katchimov was clearly not his only company, because of the snippets of information we are fed about Dasharvin and Lucas discussing English Literature and the like.

I'm assuming that Lucas may have been integrated with a general prison population within the FSB interrogation prisons? They would presumably have a lot of people under interrogation, and Lucas wouldn't always have been in solitary confinement - so I'm assuming that the other (Russian) prisoners would have instilled into him their prison culture.

Alternatively, Lucas had an ulterior motive behind the tattoos, and simply didn't want to explain to Harry what those motives were