Lucas North Speculation

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It was the briefcase.... It was all the briefcase's fault!

Who knew a briefcase full of old pictures would send a good, caring, compassionate, and loyal man into loony-land!

Geesh, I'm sure the Russians could have gotten some use out of a technique like that instead of wasting 8 years for nothing...

For me, I don't doubt the emotionality and psychological side of this storyline, I have seen enough in my life to know that people can do strange things when feeling cornered and threaten, and to be honest, people even sometimes do things that they know are wrong because they are afraid. So how Lucas's mind got to this stage of messed-up-ness is not the issue I have at all. Considering what he had already gone through, I'd be surprised if he wasn't messed-up.

But like I said, it's not the emotional story that makes me angry, it's how this storyline was constructed, the foundations, and the explanations that left me incredibly disappointed and angry. I expected more out of these writers whom have written great intelligent plots. There never was a clear explanation of what was really going on with Lucas, for one second he was portrayed as if he was suffering split personality or some other mental disorder, and then another second he's acting like as if this is all his brilliant master-plan, and this confusion lies in the writing NOT RA's acting. We have dialogs as if saying that he had been lying all along, that he knew who he was and he had been so carefully hiding all these years, this just doesn't flow with Lucas supposedly having buried his dark side, if he did, if he knew who he was during those 8 years in Russia, that evil John would have told the Russians everything. And again, if he was hiding it so well, then how did it take Beth, a newbie, about 5 minutes to find the real Lucas North? Or for Alec to discover John Bateman going to University with Maya?

And then there's the issue of mental issues as well, I mean, which normal person in their right mind decides that just because you got stranded on a foreign continent, that to get home, blowing up your own country's embassy and then killing your friend for his passport is a good way to go home? I mean, seriously, someone should check John Bateman for mental issues because a normal person does not do that! I am personally abnormal and strange enough, and the craziest thing I could think of was stealing a row boat and row myself back home!

So which one is he? A good lying actor or a guy with mental issues? Or is it both? They never really explain, and that's a pet peeve of mine, a good writer should always be clear in their explanations to their audience, even if you are trying to explain in a clever way. Your audience shouldn't be jumping around confused.

And let's just talk about the explanations we were given by Harry's talk with the Home Sec in the last episode. Notice that the explanation for how Lucas got into MI5 was quickly glossed over, all Harry said was that the real Lucas was already vetted and that our Lucas just went in for the interview and lied his butt off and got the job. Wow, AMAZING, so what is MI5 run by? Fourth graders? Actually, that would be an insult to fourth graders everywhere. Am I to believe that a "security" service doesn't even check photos or recognize faces when vetting their recruits? Am I to believe that NO ONE SAW the real Lucas North's face and maybe said something when our Lucas came for the interview? I get that it's in 1995 and protocols were different, but really?

I know many people have tried to come up with explanations as to how Lucas got into MI5, so why did the writers not even bother to put an effort into explaining this issue? I mean, this issue is only the whole foundation of how Lucas ended up MI5, pretty important I would think?

So apparently to the writers, not only is MI5 as an agency a big huge idiot, so are the Russians, the Chinese, and god knows how many other agencies that was fooled by our Lucas, yet somehow brilliant young Beth discovers it all so easily! Oh yes, he hid it SO WELL!

Maybe Series 10 we can have Lucas brought back to life by aliens? I mean, I would love for that storyline to happen! I love aliens!