Series 10 - Episode 6 Discussion

[A Cousin]

(26-10-2011 05:37 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  

(26-10-2011 04:42 PM)Silktie Wrote:  Here's something that baffles me:

Why would Elena say that Harry was too decent to go through with her extraction? How is making someone a promise and then reneging on it 'decent'?

Didnt she then contradict herself by saying he had to make the choice between being a good man and a good spy? Obviously she was trying to say you couldn't be both.

We have to remember that Elena was a double (triple? My head hurts.... ) agent. Everything she said in that scene in the MOD bunker was calculated to throw Harry off.

That said, in the moment, I thought she meant that Harry was too decent to fight Coaver any harder when he confronted Harry during the extraction. Harry also understood that Coaver was protecting his agents by blocking the extraction. The sacrificing of the many (agents) for the few (Elena/Sasha). Even then with Harry, it's all in the maths, I suppose.

Question: Was the extraction sanctioned or not? If it wasn't, he was disregarding orders by continuing. If it was, he'd have to kill Jim, a friend, to continue. Imagine! Harry with an American friend!?! The mind boggles...

Speaking of Americans, I was brave enough to rewatch last night got a giggle out of the CIA in their big, black Tahoes and Hummers plowing through the woods. Dumb a** cars that they are.(*Sssshhhhh...if we paint them black, you caaaaan't see meeee!* )

And the CIA agent with the wrist comm was totally getting off on it. He was having a blast!