[spoilers] Harry and Lucas

[JHyde]

OK, so I've been trying to dredge up old discussions on this, and it was a subject of much discussion on the Harry thread, but the only recent quote I could find was mine!

Silktie, almh and I were chatting about how wonderful the Lucas/Harry dynamic is and how we're hoping for some sort of culmination to the storyline about this tension they have. Then I said:

"I just think that it's been brewing since he got back, and Richard and Peter are so great, because they're such DIFFERENT actors, really different techniques. But the characters also share a great similarity, in that they're both fiercely loyal, and there's also a genuine affection that exists between them. You only have to see Harry's face when he sees Lucas get out the car in 7.1, or in 8.4 at the prospect of sending him back anywhere near an FSB interrogator. That distrust isn't going away though....it will be one hell of a storyline when it comes."

In the episode 4 discussion thread were discussing Harry once again looking Lucas in the eyes and saying no, he doesn't know what he's talking about, when Lucas asks about Basel. Silktie responded with:
"Yeah, I'm not criticising Harry for lying to Lucas as he has extremely valid reasons for doing so, but my point is that Lucas is likely to take a much less magnanimous view of it - he'll see it as a personal attack on his trustworthiness, which of course, it is. So it will add to the already existing tension between Harry and Lucas."

So that's for starters. This discussion has been seeping into the episode threads, so hopefully it will generate discussion here in its own right.