[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce 2.0

[A Cousin]

(20-10-2010 07:25 AM)Tea Lady Wrote:  I think Harry is so wrapped up in his own troubles he hasn't really noticed Lucas. I think that will come as one huge shock therefore. At the end of 9.5 I felt that Harry was questioning why he didn't go to Ruth when she left. Why didn't he give everything up for her like Levi did for his daughter in the end. He lost his Ruth because of that. He knows it and Ruth knows it.

It is a testament to the writing and direction that we can learn so much about Harry without him getting much screen time at all. He really twigged onto something in this episode. In the briefing scene, he is very sure that Levi made the right decision in the moment, and with Levi he is so sure that Anna will forgive Levi. And then there is the moment when Levi confesses that, despite all of that, he was not there for Anna when she most needed him. Two unreconcilable truths collided: he did make the right decision but he wasn't there for her. I love how the shot of Harry's reaction to that is an obstructed shot from behind his right ear. As if it snuck up on him from behind.

In the last scene with Lucas, I can't tell if he respects Levi for his decision to retire and care for Anna or if he envies it?