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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Over the past few weeks, I’ve struggled to reconcile the original DS Lisa Swain (sharp, perceptive, emotionally intelligent) with the baffling version we’re currently seeing a "dumb-dumb Lisa Swain." Her current actions are impossible to justify based on who she was established to be. This led me to an idea: Deep, Deep Undercover.
In this story, I propose that Lisa is operating covertly, hiding the truth from everyone: her colleagues (DI Costello, Kit Green), and her family (Carla Connor and Betsy Swain). She is deliberately allowing herself to be misunderstood and acting out of character to protect a major investigation or objective. This framework explains her harmful actions; especially toward Carla, without erasing the intelligent Lisa we once knew, hopefully offering a sense of validation or explanation for her current persona.