Episode 6.9 [Re-watch]

[A Cousin]

(10-05-2011 04:53 PM)Silktie Wrote:  

(10-05-2011 02:06 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  20/20 hindsight being what it is, I wonder if Blake's desire to cut this deal is as much out of the desire to "make a difference" as it is to gain a lasting peace? That lasting peace is just a happy coincidence for him? I don't think Harry believes him for a moment.

I don't know, I think he did believe him. Think about the way Harry talks about Blake in 7.3

Series 7.3 Spoiler: show

when he tells Ros that Blake really believes it is an honour and a privilege to be born and Englishman.

Also, would Harry have been so quick to let bygones be bygones if he thought that Blake's reasons for selling them out was not really for the greater good?

You've got me there because my memory of series 7 is limited at best. I have only seen it once. Looking forward to the re-watch.

I am not saying that TPTB are telegraphing anything that far in advance, just that the option is open - perhaps even unknowingly. Harry knows that politicians rarely do anything without some benefit to themselves involved - even if as just icing on the cake. I was thinking that if Blake can cut this deal, sure they get "a lasting peace" with Iran, but it would also be a professional feather in Blake's cap. Seems to me that Harry would understand the dichotomy of politics and diplomacy? In the end, section D was able to thwart the plan - no harm, no foul. But Harry does leave Blake with that brilliant warning. That, to me, shows Harry's suspicion of the capabilities of Blake to do the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. It kind of obliquely brings up the old Spooks question of do the means justify the end?