I assumed that she is working for the Soviets the minute she started flirting with Stan.
It’s an obvious play. Philip knew Stan would be at that meeting, after all. And Stan is clearly vulnerable emotionally–a new girlfriend would be in a position to get good intel from him without his knowledge.
In reference to the idea of Stan taking Nina to dinner at the Jennings house (which I agree is unlikely): I’ve never been clear on the extent to which people working at the Rezidentura are aware of/knowledgeable about sleeper agents such as Philip and Elizabeth.
For example, when Elizabeth recently had to phone for help when trying to evade the dragnet of pursuing vehicles, did someone working for the Rezident (or even Arkady Ivanovich himself) know about it or get informed about it afterward? What is the connection, if any, between the semi-official KGB presence in the Embassy and the Center?
One of the great virtues of this show is that the writers don’t spell things out for us. And for obvious reasons they may want to keep this cloudy. Even so, there must have been hints here and there as to who knows what.
No, I was referring to the theory discussed a few posts back, in which someone speculated about a potential storyline: Nina coming back to the US; taking up with Stan; and the two of them going to dinner at the Jennings home. And then some stray reference or remark by a Jennings would signal to Nina that they are actually not Americans at all.
That was a floor jack. Usually just a twist of the handle will bring it down. I can’t speak for this model. The victim should have had blocks under the car as back up.
Phillip approached the KGB officer in D.C. bookstore to warn him off Paige, and he knew who Phillip was.
Sleeper agents are completely inactive for years at a time. Phillip and Elizabeth are highly active operatives with a very thorough cover.
Let me just get this in as I just saw this episode and don’t have a lot of time … it’s not going away in my head - the Tori woman chasing Stan. It can’t be a Soviet setup, it really can’t but… erh, it just isn’t.
Finally the killed someone! It’s been weeks, already!!
I’m not sure I’m getting why Oleg and Stan would want to help each other, it’s not like Nina’s offering a timeshare?
Neither of them want her to be killed. Stan’s motives, I think, are a little more involved. I think he thinks that by saving Nina he can “atone” for killing Vlad.
And even if that were totally not the case at all, that sort of things doesn’t bother me in the slightest. So what if Northrop didn’t have factories near DC? They clearly COULD have, unless there’s some obvious and well-understood climatic or geological reason or something. If they didn’t have factories near DC then Phillip and Elizabeth would never have talked about them at all and instead would be trying to get at some other piece of classified info and would be trying to compromise some other person. Doesn’t interfere with the storytelling in the slightest.
Indeed. One of the things that sometimes irritates here is the occasional shallowness of the nitpicking.
It’s great if someone notices something others have missed but how about it being something smart in the storytelling cos, really, these writers know what they’re about.
With reference to the earlier issue, I think Nina was about to be let in on the secret of who the deep-cover agents were but self-reported her treasonous activities before that happened.
It is still possible that, in the event she was expatriated to the U.S. and met the Jennings socially, she might pick up on some “foreign-ness” to them. I mean imagine trying to “purge” your speech of all native turns-of-phrase.
This is a really interesting point. I took linguistics freshman year and had learned that supposedly, people learning an “L2” (a “foreign” language, after the period when it can be learned natively, roughly the first five years of life) could never entirely lose their accent. But then junior year I met a German girl who gave the lie to this. Her American accent was flawless. However, she would occasionally say something that would make people do a double take: the one that comes to mind is her saying something like “careful, I don’t want to get any earth on this dress” (I don’t remember the sentence exactly, but what I remember for sure was that she used the word “earth” when the American idiom would have been to say “dirt”).
If people want to nitpick signage, they can do it in pretty much every outdoor shot.
ETA:
I initially liked this, thought it was a nifty twist, but upon further reflection it strikes me as having one fatal flaw: the KGB would know she is not a double agent. Or do you think they would play along and want her back just to punish her? But that’s just trading one traitor for another.
