[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce 2.0

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(29-10-2010 08:42 AM)BravoNine Wrote:  I'd say that Harry's loyalty is both a strength and a weakness, it's a double-edge sword. Yes the officers he trusted have endangered Queen and Country and made mistakes, they are human after all, but his trust in his officers have also allowed the team to save many lives as well.

(29-10-2010 09:40 AM)Tea Lady Wrote:  I wouldn't necessarily say that his loyalty blinded him though, just that he wasn't ready to jump to conclusions about what they were up to. He had to move to acceptance and then action. Nothing wrong with taking your time, so not to make a mistake.

Also Harry has made plenty of "mistakes" himself throughout his career. Telling Juliet about operation Omega, his friend Bill dying, his affairs, killing Katchamov? against orders etc. All these actions may well have endangered the Country in one way or another.

See, that's the thing for me. With the possible exception of Tom, what the others did were not normal mistakes, like leaving your laptop with secret stuff on a train, for example. That's a mistake. But Adam, Ros and Lucas all made conscious choices to betray the trust put in them by Harry and by their country. Yes, Harry has made mistakes, but he's never done that.

I just think that, had he perhaps kept his Section Chiefs on a closer leash after the Tom debacle, he may have noticed what the others were up to sooner.

What all these incidents do also, is make Harry look rather incompetent. How many more times before his bosses decide it's too much?