Series 9 Rumours & Speculation

[theeyeshaveit]

I still have no idea where they are taking this, but there is one thing which keep popping up for me.

The two personality thing.

Even this week when his urgent John activities were so urgent and happening simultaneously with a Lucas operational crisis, he was still busting a gut to fulfill his Lucas duties, and thinking clearly while doing them, as his question about Opera to Harry showed, yet as John he is so brain addled as to believe Malcolm would not have done some sort of check, even if just trying to make a friendly 'hello, catch up call' to Harry just to check if what Lucas/John told him about Harry was true. When he doing John things, he is another person entirely with a brain that does not seem to operate logically.

As I have stated elsewhere I can't believe Lucas would have chosen the John path when confronted with anything I can conceive of, not for himself, not for love of Maya, nor even for her in danger. i think he would have recognised that by far the better option for enabling he and Maya to have been together would have been to face the music, and for Maya to be protected by MI5 if her life was in danger.

So why did he behave as John when Vaughn started threatening him?

The only thing that seems possible to me is that something (like the Maya photo) triggered John to come out, most of the explanations for which are pretty fanciful, like mind programming in the Russian prison. Even if he had always been John and had taken the identity of Lucas at some point before joining MI5, I would expect the way Lucas and John function to be more mixed up at the moment and them not to be looking and behaving like two totally different people.

If the Albany story line does turn out to be all about Lucas and not some covert operational thing, then whether this loss of mind is going to be credible is going to depend on what he has to hide, and I cannot at the moment conceive of anything in the past that would achieve that for me.

For me the only thing I can think of grave enough to explain the Lucas we have seen in the last two series taking this path, is for him to have been working as a traitor since he came back from Russia and I will hate the writers for making him that. I can see how they can use past series to make that scenario work though, Lucas' and Malcolms strange meeting when he firsts comes back, the trip to Russia was not the heroic act I thought it because he was actually working for the Russians, and there are probably other things they could turn on their head to suit the traitor purpose. It remains an option I find very depressing, even if it will give the series something not done before for a section leader exit.