She may be a straight-A student, but it’s clear she knows jack shit about real life. She’s gullible enough to swallow anything you throw at her, just so long as she thinks she’s “making a difference.” A real SJW.
She’s embracing one nonsensical ideology after another.
Okay, first off, how am I the only one to vote for Adderholt so far? He’s a recurring character, but not the main character. So, killing him off sends the message that “no one is safe”, making you wonder who else might die, while giving Stan yet another reason to go all in on bringing the Illegals to justice.
He’s clearly the Washin this show, and he’s going to get killed.
Now:
That’s how I see it ending: basically everyone but Elizabeth gets killed, and E goes home to Russia.
And then gets arrested, interrogated, and killed, because she’s obviously been tainted by decades of life in the Decadent West. In her last moments, she’s confronted by the reality of the country she’s served all these years, and finally realizes that all the shit she’s done was in service to an evil empire, and that her blind loyalty has now cost her, and her family, everything.
I get what you’re saying, but I think that narrative is dying. If this golden age of television has taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t always bet on antiheroes paying the karmic price for their sins.
Harvest took the cyanide pill in the van. Philip noticed it because it was open around his neck. He took it with him to get rid of evidence.
I think she meant her biggest fear of doing this work was the alone part. Not the risking death part but ending up isolated and alone.
I don’t think so. He was already dying from his gunshot wound, and he knew it. If he swallowed the pill, I definitely missed it.
Also, he took his own sweet time to die. When you bite into a cyanide pill, death is virtually instantaneous. (Prussic acid capsules are even better for this; they’re what Himmler, Goebbels, et al. used.)
I would make sense for Philip to grab the pill when they’re getting away, since he’s now essentially in a suicide pact with Elizabeth. He may not know all the details, but whatever the assignment is, she says it’s worth dying for.
I don’t see the point in taking just the empty necklace. Is that really “evidence” of any importance?
She said she doesn’t have any friends, so she’s already isolated and alone. Becoming a spy is a strange way to remedy this. She may think she now has “comrades” she can trust, but that’s an illusion. They could turn on her at any time, and she’s too naive (or just plain stupid) to realize it.
Did facial recognition technology exist in 1987?
They used it in at least one episode of the Mission: Impossible reboot (filmed in Australia), so it must have been known of, at least theoretically. Computer technology was advancing so quickly in the '80s, I’m sure it was on the horizon if not already in practice.
Anyway, having a photo ID is a lot better than using a composite sketch to identify suspects.
I said Oleg (someone else) and Elizabeth. I mentioned in the other thread, that I predict Oleg killing E to stop her, and Stan popping Oleg.
As I saw it, the locket around Harvest’s neck was open (appeared to have had the hinge at the bottom, so it was opened lengthwise from where it was attached to the chain), which signaled to me that he had taken the pill. Didn’t rewind of freeze - just my impression based on the quick shot.
Yeah, I thought the suicide pill case was open, too. And the lingering shot on his face as he died seemed to be showing him succumbing to the poison, not so much dying from blood loss.
I’m not sure why Philip removed the empty necklace. Surely they aren’t issuing identical necklaces to multiple agents, but I suppose just leaving as few potential leads as possible makes sense.
I agree. He took the pill. The necklace was open and he had thisnstunned look on his face as the drug seemed to take effect.
Yup, then Philip put the necklace in the bag with their clothes and the severed head that E threw in the river.
I just re-watched the scene and he definitely takes the pill. The locket is not out for most of the scene after he’s shot and Philip is listening to his messages. At one point Elizabeth asks about a street and the camera cuts to her, then to Philip looking at her instead of at Harvest, then a shot of the van careening around a corner. The next shot is back in the van and Philip turns around and sees the locket out from under Harvest’s shirt and open. Harvest is also seems to be making some movements with his mouth. In a couple seconds you can tell the pill is doing its thing and Philip stops applying pressure to the gunshot. He’s dead in about 10-15 seconds.
P&E go down in a hail of bullets or are banished to a supermax. The kids are held harmless because kids. Future scene at the end: Paige is a grown woman and is arriving at her new posting as ambassador to Russia.
Im sure cleaning up loose ends is drilled into them. You never know what could be used to find them out. They can’t even have Russian food in their homes.
She’d be returning to Gorbachev’s USSR, not Stalin’s. I see her returning alone (Philip & Paige dead; Henry survives, but severs contact), getting a hero’s welcome, then the USSR dissolves, and she end’s up a pensioner in Yeltsin’s Russia eating dog food.
Yeah, I could see it ending with Elizabeth back in the USSR just in time to seeing it’s shabby demise and working at the Moscow McDonald’s.
The Russians have dog food now; back then, dogs (and cats) were fed mainly table scraps. (I knew one woman who fed stray cats with breadcrumbs soaked in broth.)