[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce 2.0

[Tea Lady]

(11-11-2010 04:48 PM)loladom Wrote:  Third, even though he sent the team after Lucas and tried to retrieve Albany, why if he hoped to get away with it, did he phone the HS to tell him he'd handed Albany over? He made that call before he found Ruth and before the team lost Lucas & Albany. (Just checked the timing)

I didn't realise that. Yes you are right. I thought that Harry's plan was to save Ruth and save fake Albany = save job, Ruth doesn't resent him. Why would he declare all to the HS before he had played his full hand? Perhaps he was duty bound to, in case things went wrong. Perhaps he assumed that it would come out anyway, with Beth, Dimitri and CO19 chasing down Lucas and it was better to come clean.

Perhaps, even though Harry told the HS, who he seems to trust somewhat, he was still hoping to save fake Albany and that he may get a rap over the knuckles but wouldn't be subject to an investigation. Or maybe, Harry just had enough at that point, and really didn't care what happened to his career. Ruth may well have been dead at that point. He wasn't to know otherwise. He may have already been thinking that he had failed Ruth in a way, so was falling on his sword.