[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce - Return of the Jedi (#3)

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(27-09-2011 08:41 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  Harry must have been involved in Sasha's upbringing in his early years. How else would Sasha remember him? Sasha remembered the last time he saw Harry, when he was 5yrs old. Harry must have played "uncle Harry" for a child to have that sort of memory.

I took the flashback scene as being when Elena tells Harry she is not defecting with him. That is the last time he sees Sasha. He chooses not to go after them, to sacrifice his happiness to protect those he cares most for. He did the same with Ruth when she sailed away.

Harry has always put the defence of the nation before himself or the people he cares about. I think that is going to be true to the very end, and it's got to be why the scene with Robert Glenister was included in the opening scene setting in episode 1. 'That kind of moral sense limits a man'. This series is all about the moral sense of Harry, and I think that Ruth will be found to possess it too.