[Spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce

[JHyde]

Harry works on two fronts: great writing and a fantastic actor I love.

I wrote some stuff in the series 5 thread - the main reason I dug season 5 was Harry's development as a character, you really get some deeper insight. Re: his background. I've always thought of him as a someone who came from modest, but adequate means, and a family who valued education and service. This is very much who he is.

Personally, I always thought it was pretty crappy of Harry not to tell his wife he was a Spook until they were signing the registry. I think to marry someone and not tell them what they're getting into is a big deal. That goes for Lucas too. But he was young and I suspect quite cocky - you really get the sense he could be a little reckless in his early days with MI6, not to mention his behaviour in France.

I do find it interesting that the closest Harry gets to spouting rhetoric is when he's really upset

Spoiler: show

as in 8.1 protesting about the uranium

or in 5.1 talking about Colin.