Maybe she was sent there to keep an eye on them and Stan.
That’s exactly what it was. I knew that it was an expensive care stereo when he was carrying it down the street. I had a car stereo in the early 90’s where you would just remove the face place which was much easier to carry around which I never did because it was silly.
If so, she’s being a little too obvious about it, and it would make little sense for the Center to spend more resources spying on their agents when they’re clearly in a balls-out campaign to figure out what is up with SDI and strategic weapons developments. It is clear that Philip and Elizabeth are suspicious of her and they are trained to look for behavioral cues. I don’t think there is any way she is just incidentally showing up and doing the spy-like things that the Jennings would do if they were trying to recruit Stan. If Renee doesn’t have some ulterior agenda I’ll eat my hat.
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That’s been my assumption. And I’m pretty sure I was the first person in these threads to cast that aspersion in the very first episode we met her.
Look at her more as a safety valve put in place to relieve any pressure and handle any emergencies between P&E and Stan and it makes a lot more sense. They may have even started training her for the task the day that an FBI agent just happened to move in next door to their two most valuable assets.
Am I being paranoid to now start wondering if the Ruskies had any hand in helping Stan’s marriage fail?
Then why wouldn’t she be communicating with the Jennings? It isn’t as if she couldn’t be seen with them, and in fact it would help to ally any doubts Stan might have about the Jennings or vice versa, although Stan seems to have long since retired any of his native instinct as mere paranoia. And it is quite apparent in the world of the show that the Center (i.e. the KGB First Chief Directorate) doesn’t have unlimited resources; while they are running a number of teams of deep cover ‘illegals’ and their handlers to not only recruit but perform active operations, they’ve been running the Jennings ragged on multiple operations because they don’t have other resources. Taking what is clearly a top shelf operative with a deep cover and using her to essentialy babysit a pair of other agents wouldn’t make a lot of sense. I suppose she could be GRU or some other independent organization within the Soviet Union with different aims than the KGB ‘Illegals’ program, but it doesn’t make sense for her to have established an entirely seperate legend and introduction to Stan without coordinating with the Jennings if they were being run by the same program.
No, I think Renee is up to something, and she has a different agenda than the Jennings. Whether she is counterintel (and that would make sense since Stan has been adjacent to several security lapses and his refusal to compromise Burov) or she is working for some interested third party is unknown, but she is going to make life complicated for everyone involved.
I don’t think he needed much help in that area, and anyway, his marriage was failing even before the Jennings got close enough to him to make a case for it. Stan is important because he can provide some insights into the FBI counterintel effort to learn about the ‘Illegals’ program, but at the time that the show began he was just starting in counterintel and wasn’t any better positioned than any number of other agents who they could have compromised.
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Probably. However, the flood in the apartment above hers is unlikely to have been accidental.
I carried around my faceplate! Funny how basically no one steals car stereos anymore.
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Actually now I think about it, from the pov of the Centre, the most important thing about the Jennings’ isn’t mum or dad anymore, not strategically. So is Renee there to keep watch on Paige … Didn’t Renee appear when P and E were in turmoil about whether to stay or go home?
Yes, that she hasn’t revealed herself to P&E suggests that she’s operated by a different agency with at least a secondary objective of counterintelligence. Which may be a good thing, because as it turns out, Elizabeth is part of a rogue agency that is now working *against *Gorbachev and the US/USSR rapprochement.
At the beginning though, I wouldn’t underestimate just the appeal of having your spy become the wife of an FBI agent. Lot’s of productive introductions and connections to be made in that fertile ground.
I like the idea of Stan’s GF being Mossad. They do owe P+E one for killing one of their agents. (The “Kenny Rogers of Tel Aviv”.)
That’s premature. The General made a bunch of assumptions and then gave E a suicide pill because he told her about Dead Hand. She barely spoke.
Well, I said she part of an agency that’s doing that, which is true now, so not premature, regardless of how she herself decides to act in the future.
What?
Has she ever said more than two words at a time in Russian? :dubious:
(Mwi—oni, “We are they” (the KGB) just before they whacked the grandmother and her husband near the end of last season.)
Scroll up and read what you just quoted. That’s what.
Not enough to be part of this conspiracy.
What?!
Drama 101: A dramatist likes dilemmas, they aim to give their characters internal conflicts (will they/won’t they). These particular arcs tend to play out over several hours, often with other characters drawn in.
Fields and Weisberg have done that. Having created a conflict for E, they are not going to throw it away again. Confirmation that it is intended to be part of the structure comes in the continuation scene - which is barely 10 seconds long, has no dialogue and comprises E sitting in her plane seat looking contemplative. BOOM: conflict established.
She has not chosen a side.