Harry (Joe Pesci)’s Timeline and Summary

Harry (Joe Pesci)’s Timeline and Summary

  • Harry impersonates a police officer so he can stop by the McCallister house and learn how to undermine their security system.
  • He comes back with Marv and tries to break in, but Kevin turns on a light, revealing that someone's home. They scurry off.
  • Later, they almost hit Kevin with their van. After Kevin recognizes Harry from his gold tooth, they trail him in the van, but Kevin evades them by hiding in a nativity display.
  • Harry and Marv try to rob the house again, but Kevin holds a fake party, using a mannequin and a cardboard cutout and a few other tricks. They back off.
  • They sneak up to the house a third time—but Kevin scares Marv off with his gangster video.
  • Yet, Harry realizes that Kevin is home alone, evading them. But Kevin overhears them plotting to return that night.
  • When they arrive, Kevin is ready. Harry gets shot with a BB gun, burned, coated with chicken feathers, and injured in other ways.
  • He catches Kevin, by Marley creeps up and beans him with a snow-shovel. Harry gets arrested, and glares at Kevin from the back of a police car.