[Spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce

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(24-01-2010 04:46 PM)JHyde Wrote:  So now that we've caught up to it in the rewatch, I wanted to talk about Harry in 1.6. The first episode where we really see who he is, both his best and his worst. Not always cool, calm and collected that's for certain.

The thing is, I happen to agree with him about not turning your head from a known attack for a possible one. This is one of those times in the show where it was Harry vs the team, and in this case I think he was absolutely right. What did everyone else think?

And when Tessa threatens him over Bill Crombie, did you think he had been cowardly? Or did you just see it as typical of Tessa's dastardly character that she would stoop so low?

I have to say I disagreed with Harry here. True, McCann was scum and they really couldn't trust him, but I don't think they actually did. They knew they'd have have to deal with whatever he potentially had planned as well as dealing with the potential attack on Sefton B. And remember, there was no real intel on what McCann was up to either. Had Harry been able to put his emotions on hold, he would have seen that they were fighting on two fronts and could have been part of the solution instead of becoming part of the problem. Once he put the blinders on, he was pretty useless to the team and became the third front that they had to guard against.

Tessa's threats re Bill Crombie were a low blow attempt to get Harry angry and put him off his game. She knew she was in serious trouble and needed to find a way to compromise him. She took a shot with the Crombie situation because it was fresh in her mind and she hoped she could rattle him with it. But was it true -- I don't believe so.

Edit: I have to eat my words -- after listening to the 1.6 commentary, I now know that Tessa's re-telling of the Crombie story was the accurate one!