[Spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce

[JHyde]

You mean the old revolutionary from season 4.1/2? The implication was that he resigned/was sacked over the bombings of the same episodes. We didn't meet another until Nicholas Blake in 5.1/2.

They do seem to run through foreign secretaries though.

Anyhoo, back the man we know and love. I think that point about knowing where the bodies are buried is probably true, as with Harry threatening a coup to Mr Yalta when he was still AG. But it's more than that. I think they look at Harry and see everything they should be as politicians, and everything they wanted to be before the ugly realities of politics set in.

I've spoken about this previously, but I love that scene in 7.4 when Harry says, in response to Blake's blusterings, "with all due respect, Home Secretary, we're not in the House now". Classic Peter Firth delivery. And then hits home the closest to truth the show has ever come: "We cannot win the war on terror. Ever."