[spoilers] Harry and Lucas

[A Cousin]

(09-10-2010 12:12 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  Harry lectured Lucas about not getting Sarah vetted last series and Lucas has just gone and done the same thing again. Ignoring Harry and starting a relationship with Maya, without getting her vetted. If this was the real world, I am sure you would be sacked for that sort of breach, having already been warned. Harry really needs to wake up and start keeping an eye on Lucas. Perhaps Harry just hasn't the energy to baby-sit Lucas anymore.

Harry does seem to be blissfully ignorant to the actions of Lucas, doesn't he? He has been very involved in his crisis and maybe his eye is off the ball? Not that Lucas is sharing anything at this point. Lucas is most certainly not telling the whole truth and Harry is trying to do better at that these days. (Thus the we do not lie to each other line.)

So here's my theory - Harry and Lucas are a lot alike, brilliant at their jobs - tough, resourceful, brilliant in the field - but their tragic flaw (if you will) is that they both have a very difficult time reconciling their personal lives with their professional lives. Harry is only vulnerable when his personal life crosses the line into his private life, e.g. Catherine, Ruth in 5.5, the guy that recruited him in S7, etc. Lucas is the same with his parade of women. I am beginning to think that Harry sees a lot of himself in Lucas.

There is a parallel playing out here. It lends a whole different level to his saying to Ruth that Sometimes you have to give a man a chance to show you who they really are.