alright, i heard the reviews had been consistently good, so i caught up online over the past couple days. good show, glad i did. my guess is that they're setting up the fbi guy to compromise his own position and get it on at some point with this chick. that chick, by the way, is insanely attractive ... at least i think so. as far as a prediction about a possible plot for a future season, i imagine paige will come across something and start to get a clue about her parents. they're already setting up paige and elizabeth's differing worldviews. at the least, i bet elizabeth will have some sort of run-in with that pesky teacher that keeps filling paige's head with all that darn anti-soviet stuff.
Another fine episode. You have to wonder about the shelf life for the mole and the older embassy director. Both are toast if discovered.
I think the mole was toast the moment she was recruited. Total spy genre trope. The pretty sacrificial lamb.
Ya she's not going to last long. Does the CIA agent feel bad for putting her into this position. It seems he's starting to see things differently now that he's having his wife ask for more
That guy deserves EVERYTHING he gets. An old fart like that, (and I speak as one don't forget), has a pretty young girl come on to him and he DOESN'T think it's a bit fishy??? WTF? I mean, the guy's a spy, isn't he? Didn't it even occur to him? Still, you can see why we won the cold war now, can't yer. The other lot were even more incompetent and clueless than ours
I guess the general point is that it's always safe to bet on a man acting like an idiot around an attractive woman.
So the time line is that the handler went to meet his agent, and whilst this was going on, the other guy contacted Moscow and they gave the order for the hit? Seems like a very narrow time frame for Elizabeth to locate the guy and take him out. Unless they had her on standby already?
I think it was day before when they had discussion about FBI changing channels. I think other guy both contacted Moscow and provided other guy new location for meeting. Elizabeth didn't have to locate shit as she just went to new location for meeting.
Yeah, that was my reading of it as well. If the guy had been captured it would have been a disaster for them. As it is it's bad enough because they said he was their way into the US star wars malarkey.
Agreed. Guys always think with their dicks. Speaking of kink. Ass smacking followed by the belt. Followed by the belt, buckle end.
--The way I saw it, the older guy led the FBI agents on a wild goose chase so Elizabeth could kill the asset at the original meeting location.
No, the old guy himself was surprised and angered that the head of Directorate S went around his back to get his orders from Moscow, so he did not know that his agent was going to be eliminated as he went out to meet him.
--I saw that he was pissed but I also thought he realized he didn't have a choice and went along with the plan to misdirect the FBI. I'm going to watch it again because I'm all confused now.
--I just watched it again and I think I'm right. After being told that they could be leading the FBI to their source, the old guy seems to briefly pause before admitting they have no other choice. Then, after leading the agents to the waterfront, the old guy seems to be regretful while staring off into the distance before heading back.
If the plan was to take the asset out - with his handler's knowledge - there was no need for the handler to head out. The fact that the handler went out to meet him proves he was kept out of the loop.
I was away from good Internet for a couple weeks so I only just now caught up on the last three episodes. I'm so, SO pleased at how good this show has remained. In the fall I got into Last Resort but I was slapped upside the head by that show's plunge into terrible. The Americans is, if anything, getting even better. And I'll echo those above who cheered the inclusion of Margo Martindale. She's one of those actors I like to call an "improver"-- their presence just makes anything they are in that much better. (Stanley Tucci is for me the most noteworthy male improver). I like how, for the most part, this show refrains from spelling things out in dialogue if a look or a suggestion is enough. It doesn't underestimate the intelligence of the viewer.
Very difficult/expensive to film in DC, apparently. Although it's not like they would have had to had shot a lot on the Mall. Would have been more Georgetown, Embassy Row, DuPont, etc..