Well he probably has to show up at the occasional concert or arts festival for appearances’ sake, but yeah beyond that his “official” work is done by underlings who just sign his name to stuff.
Baloney!
I said a twist was coming… your response was “No”
Indeed, they went after Don in a way none of us saw coming… pretending E was dead and having the management crew along with P attack the system from within.
Pretend all you like; you got this totally wrong, and you know it!
I said YOUR twist wouldn’t happen, and I was right.
I didn’t get the details of how the con worked “wrong”, because I openly admitted I was puzzled as to what they had in mind! Sheesh.
Yeah, no. Pretty much everyone figured out that the husband had something to do with level 4 access when the writers made it clear to us. Your reaction to this was:
We were not “snapping at a hook”, nor were we “being played.” The husband did in fact have something to do with level 4 access. No surprise twist of any kind.
We didn’t know the specifics of how the husband was involved with level 4 access, but finally getting those specifics is not a twist. In fact, it’s the opposite of the twist. He was exactly what we thought: Elizabeth’s real target for level 4 access.
Slacker’s “No” response to you was saying “No, there isn’t a twist coming.” And he’s exactly right. This was not a twist.
It was a pretty standard story arc imo, the only ‘twist’ was Don wasn’t seen working in a lab with a giant sign behind his head saying ‘level 4’. In other words, the ‘twist’ was we weren’t spoon fed through every step of the arc.
We could never know how they planned to sting Don, and in fact it wasn’t the more expected bribery route. The little embellishment of needing an older programmer who spoke perfect English was a rather nice touch, imo.
I am getting pretty tired of pouty Paige. She has pretty much pouted her way through the entire show.
I don’t buy that they would have let her in on anything to begin with. They are trained liars, it is what they do. Secondly, once they unrealistically let Paige in on their secret, I seriously doubt they would tell her classified, operational secrets.
Hopefully, Pouty Pacifist Paige’s oversized superego will make her attempt to narc out her evil parents at some point and they will have to exterminate her, as well as Pastor Tim and his wife but not before burning down Pastor’s Tim’s wife’s lawyer’s office. Or ship her spoiled ass to Russia, that will give her something to truly pout about.
I like how Paige poutily asked if they trust her. Sure we trust you, the person who ran to her pastor and told him everything as soon as she found out.
I also think that in real life, Martha would be fish food.
From what I have read anywhere from 10-50% of an official cover spies time is taken up by their cover job.
Its quite clear that we don’t see all of what Arkady does for his “real” job as well.
Remembering the home computer was a present from Uncle Joe, I thought something weird might happen when it got hooked up to the tv.
Paige is so confused. She really want to support her parents and they expect her to be emotionally detached. Like teenagers can do that (probably excepting E).
p.s. did I read that right; mom and dad are a little worried puritan Paige is angling towards offering sexual favours for info …
The whole scene with Don in his office pissed me off. No one in a secured building leaves escorted visitors alone. If you have a security clearance, you especially know it. Why did he even take them to his office, and not to a conference room? Of course, it turned out he didn’t have anything “important” in his office, despite the locked cabinets.
Yes, I know, they targeted someone who was vulnerable to manipulation, but did they have to make him that stupid?
I’m one episode behind.
I liked how E dispatched the robbers/rapists, but I hate how it fits in the story. It came on the heels of E telling Pouty!Paige that she has to “protect the family”. Just when E might actually be getting a conscience, she has her attitude of Americans validated. It’ll probably reset her attitude and she can go back to murdering innocents and ruining lives.
Plus, isn’t it great, those mother/daughter bonding moments? “We now have information we can use against Pastor Tim. See how you can use it?”
A lot in tonight’s episode. Tradecraft highlight: The person swapping out the bug in the mail robot thought she was giving info to the mob. This technique is called “false flag recruiting”.
I think that Tatiana was a little too conveniently gabby with Oleg about the bio-weapons. In the compartmentalized need-to-know world of espionage, that kind of stuff you don’t even tell the person you’re sleeping with.
Great Elizabeth moment: Did you see her face when Paige and Stan’s son were having their conversation? At the same time conveying bemusement (Aww, look at Paige playing spy), maternal pride, and just a hint of “what have we gotten our daughter into” horror.
As the noose tightens around William, can’t wait for the finale.
I agree. Why wouldn’t he just go outside with them?
Anyway, maybe the computer stuff bore some fruit since Phillip gave William the code.
The plan didn’t require him to be stupid; it required him to make the calculation 'leaving them here is against protocol–but the potential cost of letting anyone here speak to them and learn what this is about, is too high to do anything but leave them here.’
They correctly guessed that he could justify (to himself) leaving them in the office, since the risk of their telling anyone any part of their reason for being there was unacceptable to him.
I was thinking that Beeman Junior, having grown up thinking that placing a bug is a perfectly moral means of gaining information (and being good with electronics), may have decided to see what Paige says about him when he’s not around.
And of course any bug he might have planted would end up telling him a lot more than he expected.
My guess was that Henry would find something hidden when he went into the garage to find the antenna box.
Yes, that sounds like a good possibility, too.
That combined with the emotional overload - (“I just cheated on my wife.” “I’ve accidentally gotten someone pregnant” “She’s dead - because of me” “I’ve killed their daughter/sister”) Don wasn’t thinking straight.
I don’t get that vibe from him at all. Also, he was mostly raised by his mother (Stan was undercover for a lot of his childhood). During that scene, I was much more concerned with what Henry might find in the garage, especially if he was really hunting for all the right equipment. I do remember pleading with my parents to hook the computer up to the good TV (the bigger, non-black-and-white one) and how it was not plug-and-play at all.
I’m getting anticipatory chuckles from what will happen when the Jennings are found out. Stan: “My son is dating their daughter.”
I just watched the latest episode, and I have a prediction for the end of the season. Stan’s going to get closer and closer to P&E, but just before he catches them, Paige is going to focus his suspicion on Pastor Tim and his wife. This will complete her entry into the family business.
Of course, I’ve made other predictions in the past and I’ve always been wrong.
I’ve posted in the past about seeing a physical resemblance between the actors playing Philip and Pastor Tim. It’s seemed less-obvious this season, as I believe the Tim actor has put on a few pounds. But if he WAS cast because the FBI’s composite-sketch could apply to him as well as to Philip…hmnn. You could be right about this.