[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(27-10-2010 12:51 PM)NightOwl Wrote:  I disagree that it's his secret life in Africa, not his love for Maya, that's sending him over the edge. Vaughn said in 9x6 that he involved Maya because that's the leverage to manipulate Lucas. Whatever happened in Africa, without Maya the story as written wouldn't work. (Not that I think it does work, but you know what I mean.) I wish I could separate cause and effect and simply enjoy Lucas's meltdown, but I can't. I do like the idea of Lucas losing it, but the setup is too farfetched.

Vaughn used Maya as leverage against Lucas not just because he loves her and wants her to be safe, but because Lucas fears what will happen if Maya knew what terrible thing he had done in Africa. He fears losing her and her love, he fears Maya hating him, and it's that fear that drives Lucas into doing this.

And also the fear of the secret coming out, of other people like Harry knowing, that also scares Lucas because he fears their hatred against him. And for someone like Lucas who desperately craves the trust and love of a person close to him, it CAN be damaging and terrifying to Lucas to risk losing that. We know that Lucas has always wanted Harry's trust, it is believable that Lucas fears this secret coming out will tear that trust apart and that Harry will hate him for what he had done.

So really, what caused Lucas's frantic actions can be both attributed to his love of Maya but also his fear that Maya and Harry as well will turn away from him once they find out the truth. And for Lucas, who has always crave that close relationship, losing that trust and love is more scary than anything else. That is Vaughn's leverage because he KNOWS that Lucas needs that trust. Without it, he really doesn't have anything.

Lucas said it best himself in episode two of Series 7 when he told Harry that home is where you are with the people you love and trust and that without it "I'll never really be home, I'll just be back in England"

I think Lucas fears losing that "home" because of this secret. And right now it's driving him to the brink because his morality is clashing harshly against what Vaughn is asking him to do.

(27-10-2010 01:21 PM)Naivety Wrote:  One of the most poignant lines in episode 6 was when Lucas said he had stopped hearing music. He told Danielle he had no hobbies, didn't read or go to the movies. What a statement that is about someone! No wonder he falls in love easily. He certainly needs to have a life outside work.

I think Lucas has made a statement many times that MI5 is everything to him, it's his "home", so I guess it's understandable that he has no other thing to really live for but his job.

But I do agree, Lucas really needs a life, there is something missing, and I think that's what Lucas is always craving for with his love relationships, he's trying to fill a void that he can't seem to attain.

It's no wonder that Vaughn's manipulations work so well to unhinge Lucas, that man is targeting Lucas's very weakness. This job and this love with Maya is all that Lucas has left, for Vaughn to threaten to take it all away with blowing out this dark terrible secret, Lucas stands to loose everything, so in order to keep the life that he desperately wants, he is doing what Vaughn tells him to do. But his actions have also clashed with his morality and conscience that he has gained over the years, and the decisions he has made is tearing him up inside.

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It's funny how in the light of discovering what Lucas's dark terrible secret really is, I can finally see how this storyline really works and how Lucas's actions have started to make sense.

I've always said that I can take the storyline if I was given a damn good reason for why this secret has got Lucas so scared, and now I do know. And all I can say is that it sure is a damn good reason. I can see why Lucas never wants the secret to come out, and just what the ramifications it would have to Lucas's life if it did come out. No wonder Lucas has gone all forms of crazy to keep it a secret.