If Paige is this upset over finding out her parents kill people (often enough that her mother has lost count & doesn’t even get upset) imagine how she’ll react when she finds out about all the sex stuff. Especially her father screwing a girl her own age.
That’s what I thought too. I hope we get some kind of payoff to his subplot next week (& it’s not some ridiculous ass pull like he’s been screwing Stan or Stan Jr).
I wonder if Tatiana’s promotion still goes through after next week.
Based on the preview he exposes himself to the Lassa virus when the FBI arrests him. Obviously it’s not the same thing as wiping out the Eastern Seaboard, but it’s still pretty bad even if he doesn’t talk.
I also liked that moment when the Jennings realized what Paige is doing and how squicked out they were at the implications.
Yeah, I’m with you. Although that’s pretty careless if they left anything incriminating somewhere else besides their secret compartment.
I guess you missed it when Philip figured out a way (stealing the Christianity conversion idea from Paige) to keep Kimmy as a buddy to smoke up with, but not to have sex with.
ETA: I have a prediction. When they shadow William, they are going to catch him using the access code Philip gave him. That code is going to be traced back to Don specifically, and Don is going to end up going to prison. So Elizabeth (“Patty”) will have ultimately completely destroyed that family’s life, without achieving anything except another coup for Stan.
I do think there may be a catalyst that finally causes E reconsider her unquestioning loyalty.
Amusing she didn’t know how many people she’s killed when Paige asked her. Also suburban mom and daughter watching daytime tv together hours after mom slices someone’s jugular.
If he actually had the passcode written down in the discs, they they really did target the right guy. They warn us all the time here about not writing your passwords down (especially right next to your computer!), but since they still warn us, that must mean there are people that still do it (and have their password BE “password”!).
It bugs me that the whole plan seemed to be getting Don to leave Gabriel and cohort in the office alone. What would they have done if he hadn’t? Did they have a plan B? Straight up blackmail (give us the code or we tell your wife)?
I also kind of chafe at the FBI pulling full surveillance on the tape drop. Of course, if they didn’t, they’d arrest Phillip and the show would take a different, drastic turn, so they can’t, but maybe they shouldn’t write the show so people are forced to do stupid things.
I mean, how do they even know Oleg’s information was legit? it could be part of a long con game where there IS no one inside, and the goal is to get everyone spending energy looking for a non-existent mole. Or, it could be a feint - the info is intended to have the FBI find a fake mole so the real one is never found.
They need to hire real paranoid thinkers for counterintelligence, not accountants!
I don’t think there was anything “convenient” about it at all. I have been half-convinced that Tatiana has been playing Oleg for a while and she is certainly up to something with him.
I’m of two minds of this. I think, she either:
a) Is setting him up on a sting operation; slipping him some info to see what he does with it - perhaps even on orders from Arkady or shadowy Kremlin people (in which case, the Rezidentura will certainly know he’s the one who put Stan and the Feds to William’s trail.)
b) Tatiana has grown to genuinely like Oleg and is dropping that line as a warning to him - “Get the hell out of town because, based on information I know but can’t actually tell you, it could get very, very bad over here soon enough.”
I’m still leaning towards Tatiana being up to something duplicitous, therefore I am suspecting she is setting him up. But I could buy that she was initially supposed to set him up, but decided she liked him and is trying to help him. Either way though, I did not think she was being off-hand or glib at all - that was a very deliberate “slip”.
I think Tatiana is just what she appears to be. She spent enough time with Oleg (who, after all, is also involved with highly secretive stuff), became both personally and professionally close to him, and trusted him with the information.
Does anyone have any ideas about why William was being tailed before this? When the FBI was told there was someone at one of the labs, they searched whole personnel lists rather than zero in on the one they had been following all along, seeming surprised that his identity was fake. They couldn’t have been tailing everyone in the labs, and William didn’t even have the highest clearance. I’d think they would have been watching Don or someone like him rather than an apparent American lower level worker. What made William suspicious to them all along?
They were tailing a bunch of employees hoping to find something. No one was being failed full time. When they got their hit on him, they ordered all teams to follow him now. No one else is being tailed.
And at no point did she just say “oh, hey, in case you’re interested, we have a man inside an American biological weapons place”. Rather she let little snippets of information fall at various times, which he put together. Occam’s razor says that she was just being slightly careless around someone who (a) was her friend and lover, and (b) was the son of a politburo member, and thus clearly trustworthy.
They tailed him for long enough to be obvious to Gabriel and The Center, which created few opportunities for P&E to contact him, but had never checked his history, or they would have found that his identity was fake a long time ago. That’s what I don’t get.
Yeah, that’s a weakness in the plot. Over a decade before the events of this show, Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal had made the device (using the biographical information of someone who died as an infant or young child to obtain ID) familiar. It’s not believable that people working at a site as sensitive as William’s workplace would not have had their backgrounds checked thoroughly enough to turn up such anomalies.
Maybe so, but hadn’t William been at the lab for at least a decade or two? They keep mentioning how long he has worked there. I think it’s believable that he cleared security checks and then remained there.
I suppose that’s at least semi-plausible. (Certainly in the ranks of “plot weaknesses” this one isn’t anywhere near as egregious as those we encounter in other shows.)
You could just write it off to sloppiness. Remember, he doesn’t work for the Government. He works for a company contracted by the Government. They could have cut those corners to save money. Then again, the FBI should certainly have done a basic sanity check on the people important enough to get tails assigned to them.