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I keep wondering what life will be like for Henry and Paige when this hits the papers, but I don’t really have a good idea if it would hit the papers.

For one thing, did E really have time to clear the house of all the stuff that would be incriminating? If the travel agency office was professionally swept, would it hold up?

I know they’re very careful, but when it’s time to get out of the country fast and for good, would there be something that didn’t quite get cleaned up?

To me, the most important thing said in last nights episode was when Oleg spelled it out for Stan why he was doing what he was doing.

I think Oleg thought he'd already told Stan why this was important, with his weirdly careful not-so-sotte voce explanation behind Stan's back. But Stan was such a local cop about it: we don't care about what happens to Gorbi, we just don't want illegals on our streets. I imainge Oleg's heart sunk a bit at that point: he's thinking of the future of the world (or at least, the big chunk of it he lives in). Stan was thinking like a beat cop.

But did it get through to Stan? To me, it paralleled Philip confronting Elizabeth last week. E and Stan similarly have

While P & E have been extraordinarily careful to present as typical Americans, Claudia is constantly cooking Russian food, watching 4ussian movies, etc. I get that she is not as critical as the illegals, but I would think some of the same level of care would apply, wouldn’t it? Handlers get watched and get noticed - just look at their first handler

Does anyone know if FXNOW streams the show the concurrently with the broadcast, or is it delayed?

I'm used to thinking of Elizabeth as someone who puts the mission before everything, including her own family, but I'm starting to question that, based on how she's training Paige.

For example, does she really think that an agent should never run to help another but always stick to the plan (as she told Paige)? Or is she just saying that because she's unwilling for Paige to know about the killing side of things so (1) she's not trained Paige in any way to be useful in this kind of situation (Philip would have been useful), so running in potentially endangers Paige, (2) She's hiding the fact that she kills from Paige, which limits her ability to be useful.

So now, she's beaten a "rule" int

I just realized we're about ready for the next season and am feeling the need for a quick refresh. What would you recommend for someone like me, who

• loved and basically memorized the first 3 seasons, watching each multiple times
• found season 4 and 5 to be pretty meh, and only watched them once

I don't want to rewatch 4 and 5, but want to do more than just re-read a synopsis. Are there a couple of key episodes that are critical to the story arc? Maybe I'll just watch first and last of each of those seaons (I am rewatching season 1, just because it was so good)

I love this show, but I've noticed something in other viewers' experience that just isn't there for me. A recent thread by a new viewer had several comments to the effect: it only gets better.

Well, for me that's just not true. Seasons 1-3, overall, got better and better with the end of season 3 the best television I've ever seen. It wasn't a total positive slope - many Pastor Time and Paige related road bumps. But overall, the show just got better and better, or at least, more and more addictive.

But I definitely don't feel that way now. The show is good, but not as good, or at least, not as gripping, as it was back then.

That's my take. Does it "only get better" for you?

Now that the show is getting to the point that I'll probably have to pay attention to the super-natural elements, I've got a question about White Walkers: can new ones be made, and if so, how?

If I understand right, they were first created by those little wood sprite types (?the Children?), and they themselves create Wights whenever they get the chance. But can they create new White Walkers? Is that what was happening with the stolen babies? I'm just wondering, because it doesn't seem that there are all that many of them, and given dragon power, valeryian steel and obsidian, there's a few ways to take them out. Presumably, the Children won't make any new ones, so... Maybe they're not that

What do you think was the Gaad thing?

I don't have a good theory, but my best guess is that Arkady was trying to somehow resolve something to do with Nina by exposing Stan. Maybe assuage his guilt by cornering Stan, and he planned to do that by giving info to Gaad. If he knew that Stan killed Vlad, he'd have even more reason to want to do that. But I don't love this theory because it seems like a lot to do for the sake of dead bit player, and the whole approaching him in Thailand part is not explicable.

Other possibility: Arkady wants to destabilize/de-escalate the bio-weapons stuff and needs a partner. But I can't see him doing something so blatantly against what Moscow wants.

So mostl

I've been wondering if our spies will be eventually recognized based on their walks.

Sometime past, I noticed that Elizabeth has a very distinctive "casual" walk, and was reminded of it when she left her surveillance post after the drug/rat exchange last week (go back and watch as she leaves the bus stop).

I think I've read or heard somewhere that people are easy to recognize by our walks, that we can pick a known person out from very far away on that basis. So I was wondering if, with a few more observations, Stan et. al. would make a connection, based on their walks, between Elizabeth == the woman who was fetching the Weinberg tape == the woman who whupped Gadd and Aderolt.