Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

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(05-01-2011 02:40 AM)Byatil Wrote:  

(04-01-2011 07:36 PM)conniesachs Wrote:  Why did Harry seem so keen to phone the Home Sec to tell him he'd given Lucas Albany? When Lucas and Maya left the hotel Alex phones Harry and says "It's done". Presumably getting Maya to agree to take the tracking device. Harry immediately phones the Home Sec, tells him that Lucas has Albany and he gave it to him. Doesn't mention the tracker and that they hope to use this get Albany back before it is passed to the chinese, but casts the worst possible light on the situation.

I'm just going to pick up on this point, because it does indeed seem very out of character for Harry to go straight to the Home Sec? He usually seems to hold information back where it concerns his field officers until it is crucial that he involves higher powers - and when he went to the Home Sec he apparently still had some control over Lucas and Albany. So does seem very strange that he would incriminate himself. Unless he was working under the assumption that his plan would fail, and that it might look better in court if he were to have told the Home Sec of his plans rather than running a Black Op

This issue with Harry and Home Sec reminds me of the same thought and issue I had with Nicholas Blake/Nightingale thing!

So Harry goes to purposely incriminate himself so early in the game, why?

It's like why did Blake go to Harry about the secret meeting and lead him onto the trail of Nightingale? I mean, if he had just not told Harry about anything, Section D wouldn't have known what was going on, it would have made it that much more difficult to find stuff out. I mean, it was basically like Blake just helped MI5 stop Nightingale's plan and then got himself killed! It was rather stupid this whole sudden "I'm a traitor" stuff!

And the same with Harry, sure I'm not his biggest fan, but the man's not an idiot. Giving yourself no corner to back out of seems like a pretty dumb move to me. And Harry is not dumb in any way.