[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(18-01-2011 11:43 PM)binkie Wrote:  What do you suppose Ros might have done, though, in the context of the Lucas-is-John storyline? It's hard to imagine that she would have been as indulgent of John's actions in Dakar as she was of Malcolm's insider trading. We cannot suppose that she would have played a part in getting Albany to the Chinese so Lucas-is-John could flee the country with braindead Maya. Even if her presence had had sufficient influence somehow to avert the whole Albany / Vaughan spiral of doom, the script would still have insisted that Lucas is, well, John. I'm not convinced Ros would be okay with this. She took the hard decision when it came to Jack Colville, and she would almost certainly have done the same in the case of Lucas-is-John. I don't see how, in terms of the storyline, the presence of Ros would have changed the outcome (although it may have changed the means by which the outcome was reached). I'm entirely willing to be convinced otherwise

I don't mean that Ros would have allowed Lucas to run off or escape any less than Harry would have allowed. What I meant is that Ros seems to always have a good knack at figuring out how to read Lucas, or at least seems to know what he's doing. Of course I don't know this for sure, but I like to think that maybe she would have discovered this whole Vaughn thing before it started to spin out of control and took care of the problem before it became this huge train wreck.

I'm sure she would not have been thrilled to find out what Lucas/John did all those years ago or the fact that he had been lying, but considering her own little betrayal scenario, I hardly think Ros would be in any position to be that judgmental. She wouldn't be happy, but maybe she would have found out about Lucas's little activity and put a stop to it or helped Lucas get rid of Vaughn or find out why he wants Albany rather than this whole Lucas going crazy and kidnapping Ruth and running around like a mad-man.

Now I don't know if Lucas would have been alive either way, but at least I wouldn't have to sit through Lucas going loco and this whole Maya love-sick thing. Ros was the first to notice the whole Sarah/Lucas love thing, surely she would have spotted this whole Maya deal. With Ruth being suspicious and Harry going through a version of a mid-life crisis, Ros would be the only one I would think would act on her instincts/suspicions and confronted Lucas about this straight on.

And yes people sure wouldn't be thrilled that Lucas did that bombing thing or the whole fake identity, but he still risked his life for Queen and Country, so maybe if they had found out about Lucas's little rogue activity stuff earlier and before all this mess of running away, dead CIA analyst, and the whole Albany crap, things may have turned out a bit different.

I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but I just always have this part of me that thinks if Ros had been around, Lucas wouldn't have been allowed to get this far with the whole Vaughn thing. No one else really noticed what mess Lucas was making, and Ruth only barely started to have suspicions way too late. I can't help but think Ros would have caught on faster, she had that ability to read Lucas.

Anyways, that's just my crazy ramblings. Feel free to ignore