That would also mean Stan was complicit in the many murders and successful missions P&E have done.

I thought it was apocryphal, but didn't know it was the British. Thanks for the link!

When you say "manipulation" it generally implies a bad thing, where there's some subterfuge going on and the person winds up doing something they wouldn't do if they understood what was happening. Telling a joke to make someone laugh when they're sad is manipulation, but people wouldn't usually call it that for that…

Yeah, Henry's shown himself to be a natural liar and a natural keeper of secrets. He's like the anti-snitch. Paige made a lot of noise about how it was dangerous for Henry to be hanging out with Stan even without him knowing the truth, but 6 weeks hanging out with Paige and Stan is wondering what's really going on at…

I guess a good example would be those infamous small pox blankets, right? It's not like the US government hasn't made genocide a policy (not just blanket-based, of course).

Maybe just people who work for them and not Directorate S.

When did Paige fool them with lies?

Well, she certainly didn't have a problem with it. She wasn't good at it, but she tried to be and when caught she got self-righteous about it.

Also it's smarter to use a kid who's an immigrant, so has something to bond with Pasha over, but not a Russian because a) They would be more suspicious of other Russians and b) that would require Russian parents that Philip and Elizabeth would never play (even their alter egos can't be Russian) even if they could.…

He definitely doesn't have to talk about it, but he's lived in a society where he wasn't allowed to speak out for so long that now he's just shouting it from the rooftops and every opportunity. He's got like 40 years of complaints built up in there.

The one thing I thought was totally believable about Jared was him killing his parents. There were problems with things about how the story was handled, but him murdering his family seemed like the most realistic outcome to the Centre telling him about his parents behind their back and then him having to live with…

Yup. With the occasional reference to his own life for contrast (and some contempt thrown out to other people).

Totally agree. Stan has sometimes said some things to Philip or Matthew or Sandra but he's always very aware of stuff he can't talk about. Just last week he said work was annoying because this stuff going on with Oleg. When asked if it was something he could talk about by Philip, he had to say no.

Oh, okay. That's Tuan. He's Vietnamese, hates Pasha the Russian kid but doesn't particularly love Russia.

Lucia!

Are you talking about Tuan or Pasha? Tuan's Vietnamese, not Russian. He doesn't love Russia, particularly.

But to be fair, her problem was him being completely cut off emotionally about everything, not impatience that he didn't share classified FBI information. In fact, last season Matthew seemed to have figured out that his dad threw out the Martha information to show Matthew he was glad he was there, despite being…

But he's always been able to do both things at once—murder for the motherland and have doubts about things. I think he's still absolutely listening to Alexei and wondering about the grain, but that doesn't mean he isn't angry at potential poisoning of grain if he believes it could be true.

It was a big thing for him to tell him about Martha, but it was also after it was over. It'd be seriously pushing it for the guy to tell his kid about on-going investigations with him. Telling him enough for Paige to somehow deduce that her parents are killers requires some serious details. Like with Martha he surely…

Those are matryoshka dolls, not babushka dolls.