[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce 2.0

[JHyde]

Something I have been thinking about a lot this morning on my way back from work: that snippet of conversation from 3.6 where Harry says to Zoe 'The truth is a highly elastic concept' and Zoe rejoins beautifully with the 'No, we make it elastic'.

I don't believe for a moment that Harry thinks truth is relative. Not at all. I think the opposite, that he clings dearly to a few things he knows to be true and other things waver. Perhaps this is the elasticity to which he refers.

I think this is something he was telling Zoe as a way of comforting her for lying, probably because he himself felt pretty shoddy for it. But he's right - it was a show trial and so I suppose he justified to himself on those grounds.