House of Cards' Sebastian Arcelus on Lucas Goodwin's Last Big Blaze of Glory

If you gorged on House of Cards the minute Netflix unveiled Season 4 last week, you know by now Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) finally gets what's been a long time coming in the fourth episode.

While we should of course never delight in someone getting shot, if there's any modern TV character we wish would... at least get maimed a little bit, it's Frank, whose ruthless race to control everything and everyone in his path has led to all manner of shady pursuits.

Frank is walking among a crowd of protesters in Texas, and there's a sense of impending doom until Lucas springs out and fires.

[...] the scene (this episode was directed by Robin Wright - one of four in she directed this season) is compelling since the blink-and-you-miss-it shot required careful choreography, and story-wise, the implications open a new path.

Edward Meechum (Nathan Darrow) and Lucas, whom Meechum kills during Lucas' assassination attempt -- and Lucas is now officially a deranged maniac but a hero too since his crime begets more scrutiny into the crimes he was working to link to Frank.

Can you walk us through shooting that scene?

The crowd worked well in creating that environment and of course Kevin is wonderful.

Someone had to, dammit! [Laughs] You know, it's an interesting question because while continually trying to hold on to a certain morality, I think Lucas has been victim to a system that keeps shutting the door in his face with each new development in his pursuit.

While he might get one step further or at least try, he loses something in each attempt, whether it be his code of ethics or his mind or his self esteem, his life.

In this House of Cards world, he had no other recourse but to take matters in his own hands.

Vigilante justice is not a heroic act, but in Lucas' mind, he needed to find a way with the extremely limited way he had to enact justice.

Lucas, however, remains the ultimate bad guy in the public eye.

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