[Spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce

[Sidney Reilly]

One of the most interesting things I find about Harry (already it feels like I’m talking about an old friend) are the vague hints, the indistinct references to, and the only ever hinted at history he has in the intelligence service. These hints have cropped up throughout all of the series, his early days fighting in the cold war and as JHyde made reference to, his days in Northern Ireland and how they influenced him. Even down to the episode where the old revolutionary was released from prison and then recruited (sorry but I can’t recall the series and episode number…..anyone know it?) to help the team to go after the nouveau riche Russian who wanted to buy the NHS (hadn’t that guy heard of E-bay?), it was Harry who de-briefed our old school revolutionary when he was first arrested. It’s this intrigue about Harry’s past that I find so compelling about his character, if there is anything in the printed literature about this please share…….but then again do I really want to know? Or would it just be better to keep this mysterious air about the great man, does the not knowing make our Harry a more interesting man when all we can do is speculate about, rather than reiterate his past. For example S8E1, Harry’s stashed a shed load of uranium somewhere and not told anybody where it is…….how cool is that?