They met in NY, not Canada, and then she ran off. We and Philip both knew she was running away, and then last season we heard she'd been arrested. Gabriel told Philip that, along with the fact that she said she had a son that was his who was now in Afghanistan. He used all this to manipulate and complicate his…

Yeah, me too. Enough with EST already. Philip's not telling me anything he hasn't said either with or without words all season. Having him tell it while pretending to talk about being a travel agent doesn't add anything for me. It's not like the advice is helpful. "Dude, just quit your job. No one in the history of…

And he regrets it—along with many other murders!

Why have a baby at all? Especially if you're leaving it with your parents? How much did she know the kid? It's not Mischa's plan to find his father, it's his mother's plan. She's the one that left him the instructions to do it if he wanted. She's just an irritating character.

From the way he spoke to her I think he was sure she was working him. Paige basically announced that she was going to get close to him and now she's making out with him. At best she's starting a relationship that's got a lie at the center of it, but he's really afraid of her using her love life for her parents.

There does seem to be this default view that everyone has a bullet in the head waiting for them in Russia even if they're heroic and there's really no reason to kill them.

It was last season he told him—remember, that was what was pushing him to sleep with Kimmie. Gabriel said that she'd been arrested and that she said she had a son who was Philip's.

I know…is that answering something?

It's not totally unreasonable but it's also not something that needs to be addressed. Multiple characters have discussed getting her to Moscow and the fact that she made it there. There's no good reason for anybody to need to kill Martha over there. But that doesn't clear up the lingering unease since the woman is…

To be fair, Henry and Philip probably had dinner and breakfast together while Mischa just got out of a mental institution where he'd been imprisoned for several months.

It's like the astronauts calmly stating "Houston we have a problem." The bigger the danger the deadlier the calm.

Oh, I had zero problems with Mischa Jr. as a person. I thought the actor was great and he was immediately really warm and likable. (In a way he was too warm and likable for somebody who'd been through what he'd been through, but I still liked him).

Yes, I remember all that. I was making a joke about how Irina's main job on the show—and apparently the main thing in her life—was making sure her boyfriend from when she was a teenager would periodically get emotionally knocked for a loop by her. First she dumps him. Then she shows up and reveals she was actually…

It's not even really out of character.

I've come around to her line of thinking on this one. I really hope we don't have much more EST in the show's future.

It's Миша so he probably doesn't have a set spelling in English.

That's what it sounded like to me too…so…what's his impression and why did she send him to him? Does he think his dad just abandoned his mom? His grandfather was surprisingly friendly-sounding about Philip for that scenario. Did Irina give the impression she hid the pregnancy so he could go away alone? If he thinks…

Right but I meant, okay, exactly what contact does she have with the kid? Did she raise him? It seemed like she was an Illegal too—was she just flown in to be a Canadian travel agent in that one scene? So…she was briefed before her mission and then wrote him a letter in Afghanistan about that part? Was she getting…

I think it's misleading to talk about her fighting guys to a draw. She smacked two FBI agents when they weren't looking and then got captured, and was able to flip herself into an ongoing motorcycle. These two guys were not in a place where she could smack them both at once and then run, as she tried to do with the…

Yeah, my heart kind of sank when he showed up. And then was setting off to meet dear old dad. Without us knowing if he knows the whole deal. How did Irina even get to tell him he was a travel agent? She saw him for the first time in 20 years and then ran off, after which she got arrested. Was she getting updates on…