I’m just waiting for Henry to step up, tell them all he’s known what’s been going on for years now, and rat them all out. Because, let’s face it, they’ve been doing a really crappy job of keeping things quiet around him.
Yeah, that was the least surprising bullet to the head ever.
My wife too. I think it might have been intentional.
It had to have been.
Philip was very pointedly using a map and coordinating with something (looking up) when they got to the site itself. Perhasp te Russians had people watching Fort Deitrich after Willy had got captured.
I presume the ground at the precise location was still freshly dug and bare of grass.
I’m with the crowd that thinks they got posted by Aeroflop and dad decided to defect on behalf of the family.
Good to see Elizabeth immediately back on form with the single silencer shot execution of her protege Hans. tbf, there are worse ways to go …
Yeah, the virus he’d just been infected by. The choices were single shot to the head then or painful death (and a high likelihood of infecting both them and the public at large).
As amarinth says the choice was probably for the best. I do think the missed a spot; should have been done by Philip, always the most cold-hearted of the two.
Me too. Otherwise he wouldn’t be bagging on the Soviet Union so overtly. Unless…he’s a double agent trying to draw out some Illegals. You heard it here first.
I had no idea what was up w/ the second house and Tuan. At first wondered if they pulled a Darren Stevens, subbing a new actor for their son… Was any of that set up last season.
That digging segment had to be the most boring couple of hours in a one hour show ever!
Totally new this season.
I know. Good god.
I’m pretty sure that family are defectors and he is essentially being paid to provide information on his area of expertise which is agriculture.
I love Tuan. When his “parents” aren’t home, he sits in the dark and watches television to keep up with his classmates.
I wonder if he attends the same school as Paige and Henry. Maybe he’ll run into them at some point.
I don’t understand what the cover story is with Tuan. Do the neighbors think his adoptive parents leave him alone in the house all the time?
Well, their cover is that they are flight attendants. Perhaps someone who was literally sitting there with a notepad taking notes as to exactly when the left and returned might eventually notice that something was fishy, but I like the detail that he goes out of his way to turn room lights on and off in ways that make it appear more people are home than are really home.
I disagree. I thought it was oddly compelling… and I was trying to figure out what was going on the entire time. My first thought was that they were going to bury some sort of transmitter. Then I thought they might be hacking into an underground cable or pipe or something.
I mean, I see three possibilities:
(1) They’ve defected
(2) They’re posted to Moscow as official diplomats, the father is just really really careless about running his mouth
One thing that makes me lean towards (2) is that you think someone would have mentioned or asked about (1) if (1) were the case. I mean, something like “gee, how did you get up the nerve to defect” or “and THAT’s why we defected”.
The other thing is that if they are actually defectors, what’s the point of P&E gaining their trust? What are they going to do, try to convince them to re-defect? Whereas if they’re not defectors P&E might be trying to figure out whether he’s just a loudmouth vs someone who’s actually going to betray his country, sell secrets, etc.
Or we could be missing an entirely different possibility. There’s some chance that they are actually legal emigres. I assume the number of such is very very small, but would it have actually been zero in that time period?
There was a biohazard sticker on him when they opened the coffin that said “Warning: Biohazard. Do not burn.”
Elizabeth has always been portrayed as much more cold-blooded then Philip.
The USSR actually did allow a token amount of legal emigration; most of those allowed to leave were ethnic Jews or Germans. There were even people who emigrated, but changed their minds and returned home. Like the Polovchak family.
My wife doesn’t watch the show, but she sat down just as the digging began. I told her it’s a great show … and she left after five minutes of digging. “Come back! They hit something!” I told her, but by then she had gone to bed.
I was quite impressed with how nice and straight the sides of the hole were.
On the contrary, she is a much more of a true believer than Philip. Philip does what is expedient to the job. Gregory burnt? Kill him. Afghans annoy him? Shoot em. The old lady catches them with the robot? Have her put down, vide an overdose and tell a wavering Elizabeth she has to do it.
Elizabeth on the other hand gets attached to the people she works with. Like Gregory. Or the Korean lady. And, Hans.
Thank God for Amazon Prime. When things get slow, I just drag the slider to the right. This is especially helpful for the long, poignant, atmospheric scenes in Russia.