The Americans Season 3

Not sure if this is a trick question or something, but it seems pretty clear to me: He jerks off to it.

I meant beyond the obvious. Did Henry break into Stan’s house and swipe the picture? Was it taken by KGB reconning Stan?

Martha is not long for this world.

What was up with the bread girl that got shot in the head? Just an innocent bystander? Why did she have to die?

She spoke with a Afrikaaner/Dutch accent, so I assume she was part of the South African hit team.

Thankfully. I now suspect she’s going to off herself when she realizes (finally!) what’s been going on. I have no doubt she’ll cave in under interrogation and tell all she knows about “Clark.”

Either that or Elizabeth will whack her. I really don’t think Philipp has it in him to take her out.

I loved the look on Gaad’s face when the IA investigator said “It could be you!”

I’m leaning toward suicide. That realization is going to totally destroy her.

The kid that Elizabeth has been training, he looks a lot like the picture of Peter’s other son. I know Gabriel said the kid was a soldier in Afghanistan, but still.

I’ve always had trouble believing that Martha could be stupid enough to believe Philip and follow his plan.

The whole world just came crashing in on Martha and she doesn’t know what to do. She goes to an apartment for the first time and doesn’t even react to it, all carefully planned for when she starts to suspect something, but she was so blown away by the events at the office she can’t cope. It’s not going to go well for her.

It almost seemed to me that she wanted to know where Clark lived so she could turn him in. Or at least think about turning him in. I think she really knows now something is up. Seems to me that she’s at least going to try and get more information on Clark, she pretty much knows she’s screwed, but she might think if she tells what went on she might not get in as much trouble.

I don’t think so. It’s probably one of the standard “safe houses” the Center maintains for emergencies. That’s why it was a available on a moment’s notice.

In other words, nothing really special, doesn’t matter if it gets burned. It’s a tool … just like Martha.

Probably because it was so banal and impersonal. When someone lives in a place like that, there are all sorts of telltale signs laying around. At this place, nothing … which is especially odd for a male living alone. (What, he has a woman come in two or three times a week to keep the place spotless and odor-free? Not bloody likely!)

This alone should have tipped her off that Philip ain’t exactly kosher.

My bachelors flat looked pretty similar.

Phillip’s “Clark” persona does seem like the kind of guy who’d have a super-neat place. Totally consistent with his control-freak demeanor.

Well, it looks like I was wrong with the whole thing of Martha and Mrs. Beaman not both being in the same episode. Maybe it’s a little more complicated than that as Nina wasn’t in this ep but they both were. Maybe it’s sort of a three-way Chekov/Sulu effect.

Martha showed some real cool breaking down the bug’s receiver so as to not get caught by the sweeper guy, but things are going to come crashing down real quickly now.

I don’t know if bread-truck girl was part of the hit team or it E just wacked her because they needed the van.

Mine too … until I moved into it! Within a week, it was “personalized.” :o

In other words … he’s “anal” in more than one way? :eek:

She certainly didn’t do a very good job of trying to get some info on Clark. He seemed to ask her what was wrong several times. If he is that suspicious, I don’t think he will open up to Martha about much of anything. I strongly doubt that he would give her anything that she could use to hurt him or to help herself. Yes. She is in a bad spot now and I can’t see her making things better on her own.

She knows something is up. It hit her hard in the face. Walter Traffet, the guy who comes in to investigate everyone isn’t Clark. She ***thought Clark ***was the guy who does what Walter is doing, when he didn’t show she knows she’s screwed. She doesn’t know who the hell Clark is now and is fearing the worst. She’s grieving for the Clark she thought she knew, tearing up at the Kama Sutra book. She goes to his apartment trying to get a grip on something real, and it’s just not there. Her gut is telling her she’s gone too far in believing a charade. At this point, its too early to turn him in, I think she’s still processing what has happened, but it’s her only chance …if Philip and Elizabeth don’t get to her first. Philip is already aware she’s “off”

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