And making him do that scene in broken English just made him seem more helpless and childlike—and humiliated, with Gabriel having to speak to him like he's mentally challenged. Him having to spit out "Forget father?" with tears of frustration killed me. I've always hated Irina and that whole storyline but damn of…

Last season it was Philip who wanted to go home. When Gabriel told them they should go Philip was already and it was Elizabeth who didn't seem to want to go. Philip just wants to get out of spying.

Don't forget bowling! Essential part of training!

See, and people kept saying this showed that Elizabeth was better at this. He had the bigger challenge and nailed it!

My guess is it's a first step to them figuring out that Henry has started to feel like an outsider in his own family because of their focus on Paige, which will lead to the obvious question of him having to be let in on the secret.

Thanks! Especially for the verification that it was moldy.

Yeah, I thought she laid it out really clearly for them: if they continued to lie to her it mean they didn't really have a relationship. They could see that she was right.

Yes! I love how completely rational Henry's view seems to be, and it seems great that this is the way to get him into the action. The first things we saw about Henry noticing something up were times when Elizabeth and Philip had to rush Paige off to talk alone. But I imagine it's more than just their whispered…

I think it's more that they didn't see a connection between video games and math. Many people use computers for different reasons without being good at math.

Why would they have to get into that? It's not the story of the Cold War.

I thought it was definitely black bread.

That's…not a Mad Men thing?

Paige's room—but I could not for the life of me identify that poster. Seems almost weird she has a poster like that at all.

They're totally interested him. Even here they were wondering if Chris was a boy or a girl. I think the issue with Henry isn't that they ignore him so much but that he can see he's ignored compared to the constant attention they lavish on Paige, which to Henry reads as them considering him less worthy.

Actually, I don't think it was that they thought Henry wasn't smart, it was that they thought he was lazy. There's been stuff over the years about making him study or him having tutors. I thought it was funny when Philip made the joke about hard work being the key to success and Paige says she thought so too. But…

And interesting that Elizabeth, the person who didn't get that focus this week, is the person who got closure with her family (her mother) two seasons ago thanks to Philip and who always had some contact with her.

Not sure what in that context would make Philip be saying he's American or would never go back to the USSR.

They basically did that when they revealed his existence to him (not knowing Irina had told him). They wanted him to work harder on the Afghanistan intel, so they dropped it on him that Mischa was there.

LOL. I thought the same thing about the Chinese food. He doesn't even get to eat it on screen? Attention's back to Paige already?

That's probably why they made a point of making Henry obviously adolescent instead of a kid starting in S4—that's when he started shooting up. Now they can just say he's a young teenager while Paige is in her middle teens without anybody necessarily announcing his actual age (the way they have done with Paige for the…