23 Facts About Lucas North

Lucas North, formerly known as John Bateman, is a fictional character from the BBC espionage television series Spooks, which follows the exploits of Section D, a counter-terrorism division of MI5.

Lucas North is described as having once been the best in his field, and he is trying to regain his former brilliance.

Lucas North has performed his own stunts on the series, which have included a waterboarding scene, although the character becomes less physical in the ninth series.

Lucas North had just made it past the first battery of tests for admission to MI5.

Harry's suspicions are solidified when Lucas North goes off-piste, but ultimately, Lucas North is able to bring Darshavin in and takes him into FSB custody after uncovering his involvement in the plot, while Ros stops the bomb.

Vaughn forces Lucas North to find the file, which is in the possession of former Section D member Malcolm Wynn-Jones.

Lucas North delivers the file to the Chinese agents anyway and intends to kill Harry for revenge.

Lucas North's personality is divided between who he was before he was imprisoned, the prisoner, and the person he has become.

Lucas North was once the best in his field, and now he is trying to regain his former brilliance.

Lucas North appears to be a person divided between who he was prior to his incarceration and who he has become since.

However, in series nine, Lucas North believed he deserved being tortured, as penance for bombing the British Embassy in Dakar.

Lucas North is an admirer of English poet and painter William Blake; Elizabeta reveals that Lucas North' admiration of Blake is based on their common distrust of systems.

When Ruth Evershed returns in the series, Lucas North "really takes control of her position", in a similar manner to Harry and Ros's actions during Lucas North's return.

Lucas North agreed to appear on the series upon reading the rough outline of the script.

Lucas North tried to inspire his acting style for Lucas by Jason Bourne, a character created by Ludlum.

Lucas North lost a stone in weight in order to keep with the description that Lucas is malnourished, but had to keep physically fit in order to perform a fight sequence during his first week of filming.

The numerous tattoos on Lucas North's torso were actually transfers planted on Armitage, and took a couple of hours to apply.

When questioned regarding Spooks's notoriety of killing off main characters, and the chances of Lucas North meeting his demise, Armitage stated;.

However, on judging the way characters tend to get killed off, I think when Lucas North's time comes I'll welcome it.

In September 2011, co-star Peter Firth confirmed Lucas North was killed off in the ninth series finale.

However, this changed to have Lucas North just jumping off the building instead.

Lucas North was only given a short lesson on how to handle firearms, since he was already accustomed to using them whilst working on Ultimate Force.

Lucas North agreed to perform the sequence after he was convinced by consultants for the FSB and CIA.