[Spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce

[Silktie]

This is a bit of a dilemma for me. Morally I know it should make me think less of him, but I don't, and I think these are the reasons why:
- They have established Harry's principled approach to the job extremely well up to that point, so that I accept that he had a very good reason to kill the Russian, i.e the man was a threat to national security. The problem with the above argument is that Harry really killed him for personal reasons; they had already neutralised him as a threat.
- However, and this is important to me, I like that Harry did it himself precisely because it was personal. He could've gotten someone else to do it, as he did in season 1 with the guy that killed Helen, but because it was personal, he did it himself.
- Before Harry and Ros goes off to meet the Russian, Jo basically tells them that it's not fair that he gets away with what he's done, so Harry also knows he needs to do it for the team, not only for himself.
- The guy was actually guilty and did deserve it.