[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce 2.0

[YourFutureMuse]

(16-06-2010 02:51 PM)The Grid Wrote:  I do believe he sees his team like a family in Series 1. Harry treats Danny and Zoe like his children, sometimes refusing that they are involved in the bigger operations and keeping secrets from them, like a parent trying to maintain some of their child's innocence. He does this with Danny and Zoe in a way. There are some things he'd rather they didn't know, as they aren't yet experienced. He treats Tom more like their older brother, who is allowed to be in the know about certain things. He takes Zoe and Danny under his wing and is rather sympathetic towards them - Harry taking Danny's credit cards after he fiddled with his credit rating, but not coming down too hard on him and showing some compassion towards Zoe but politely telling her to get it together after she confesses Tessa's betrayal. Treating the team like a family helps give you the sense that Harry doesn't have a close family of his own, so uses his MI5 team as a replacement for that. Maybe he treats his team like this, as he regrets how he treated his actual family (e.g. Catherine) in the past so he sees his team as a second chance to right his wrongs? Or I could be looking too deep into it..

I agree with this especially the bit about Zoe and Danny, I think in later series it is not as obvious as if Harry is more distant from the team