Lucas Brennan is the main character in the 2025 indie drama, Plainclothes, played by Tom Blyth.
Lucas is an undercover police officer in the late nineties in upstate New York who works in a sting operation in a mall. He is tasked with luring male targets to a mall bathroom, insinuating with eye contact and body language to the queer men that he is interested in a sexual interlude with them. When the queer men expose themselves to Lucas, they are immediately arrested for lewd public conduct. This was a common entrapment device used at the time, leading to musician George Michael’s notorious arrest and coming out. However, all of this changes when Lucas encounters Andrew (Russell Tovy), a gentle older man, as a target and finds he is attracted to him, leaving him torn between duty and desire.
Lucas’ father recently passed, and we learn after the funeral more about his relationship with his recent ex-girlfriend, Emily (Amy Forsyth), and that he has expressed attraction to men before the incident with Andrew.
When Andrew calls, Lucas hides it, but Emily recognizes his anxiety and directly references an earlier conversation in which Lucas admitted he thought he might like guys, too. His attraction to Andrew, then, is not presented as coming out of nowhere or as erasing what he felt for Emily.
Lucas is a fully-realized bi character. He has strengths — he’s observant, smart, kind, and deeply feeling — as well as hopes and dreams and fears. However, he also has his faults — he lies to Andrew about his real name, abuses police resources to track him down, and in so doing outs Andrew to his wife and family. However, Lucas is not without his growth — he leaves the police force due to his guilt in entrapping innocent queer men, confronts his homophobic uncle during the climax of the movie, and comes out to his mother in the same scene, which leads to hints of love and acceptance rather than dismissal.
Though often the interviews with the director and actors of Plainclothes lead to them assessing that this is a gay love story, if anything, the film comes across more as Lucas being a closeted bi man (due to his discussions with Emily) dealing with internalized biphobia before breaking through.