What flying? She's doing a play on Broadway!

Also studies have shown—and you see this easily in life—that peoples' perception of how good their life is is relative to what you see around you. Alexei would not grow up in the USSR resenting not having a Bennigan's. He probably wouldn't even see why you would need that much food—like Claudia still rolling her eyes…

I know Elizabeth just fine. I don't understand where you think I'm being played just because I pointed out that Philip knows what's going on in the scene and is not being unwittingly manipulated. If Elizabeth was the same spy she always was she wouldn't have asked Philip to move back home in S1. Or gone to Germany.…

Yeah, in that guy's case it's more like…how did that even last for 5 seconds? Tuan by contrast would be a stranger who's only lying about his age, and comes from a whole different culture so there wouldn't be as many cues.

LOL! Okay, that WOULD be pretty awesome. I can kind of see Martha in that scene easily…

It was crazy awesome! There's a documentary about it called The Imposter and there was a good profile about him in the New Yorker as well. His name's Frédéric Bourdin. Here's the New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/ma…

But a secretary with the ability to confront her husband (a husband who, btw, was only interested in placating her) firmly (in English) is hardly the person the KGB would want to interrogate a Soviet Citizen who could probably also confront her husband firmly. They've got plenty of actual, trained, native-speaking KGB…

But that's what I don't get. Why would Martha suddenly be Oleg's partner? I'd doubt her ability to aggressively interrogate anybody in English, much less Russian.

I can't imagine them expecting Alison Wright to start doing scenes in Russian. If she does have any more scenes, it would be just as likely they'd be in English since she'd presumably be talking to Russians as an American. It's not like she'd be sent to pick up anything from locals over a native.

Or not a friend but his responsibility, like Martha to Philip. He explicitly connected Oleg to Nina in his mind. She was the first Soviet who helped him and got executed for it. He doesn't want to be the rat who doesn't protect his asset again. Especially since Oleg was so clearly acting out of good moral sense with…

According to talk outside the show, yes he's a young-looking Vietnamese agent impersonating a high school student. I've no doubt he actually could pretend to be a refugee who was at least a minor. Remember that guy who was adopted by the family in Texas and convinced them he was their long lost son who'd been…

You're welcome! :-D

Thanks for that info!

But if he knew they were agents, he should already know the full extent of what they do because he'd be following them. He could have followed them to Gabriel's by now, and Gabriel would be more useful in getting more Directorate S agents than P&E. We've seen what Stan does when he has even a hint of seeing an Illegal…

Yes, even if the plans were intentionally bad, there's no reason to think the US would expect it to kill anybody since they'd expect people to test it. There's no way the Soviets didn't shoulder at least some of the blame, if not all of it.

Yeah, I didn't think his fear was necessarily about feeling guilty. He didn't know what these people wanted. His natural instinct was to not want them to know he was important.

I think it already is, since corruption is a big part of why the USSR isn't feeding itself.

She has been very open about the US being "better." I agree, I don't think her true believer status comes from thinking the USSR is a paradise. It never was in her lifetime.

Also Stan's in a better place emotionally now, mostly due to his friendship with the Jennings family.

I assume they're just sort of doing a sweep. Somebody might be looking to jump ship and this would pick them up.