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

[A Cousin]

(29-09-2011 01:48 PM)loladom Wrote:  

(29-09-2011 01:25 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  The Towers/Harry relationship is interesting this time around. I am very glad that SRB has more to do. No idea where it is going though. Maybe Towers is the impersonator? (Mostly joking on that one.... )

That thought has crossed my mind more than once and is not too unrealistic. Perhaps he doesn't really want the Russian deal, but can't be seen to lose face and he knows Harry is the best person to resist it, OR maybe he just wants Harry and MI5 out of the way and is using Harry to shoot himself in the foot. Plus he's very keen to get his hands on Ruth to get her out of the fall out?

I try to not move ahead any further than I have too or I get hopelessly confused. I have a hard enough time keeping up with it as it is happening much less keeping up with all the possible speculative theories! Which is part of the reason that I am not reading the BBC press releases this time around. So take that into consideration as you read the below.

As the facts stand right now (end of 10.2), Towers called the "stay of execution" of Harry because Gavrik requested it. (Not sure Towers would have done it otherwise?) Towers has told Harry in no uncertain terms that he needs to make nice-nice with the Russians. Towers arranged for the Gavrik's to come to the UK without informing the security services and have met in secret. Gavrik and Harry have "something else" between them that I think has nothing to do with Elena. Maybe the killing of British officers in the past as Harry tells the HS. Am I missing anything?

The only speculation I will make is that those three men (and probably Coaver as well) are intertwined in a way not yet fully revealed. Elena might just be a smoke screen by the writers to get us looking in one direction (Harry/Elena/Ruth) when we should be looking in another (Harry/Gavrik/Towers). If so, it's probably like shooting fish in a barrel.