I was surprised she didn't make the opiate comparison. Many people who have tried heroin would say it, too, was the best they've felt in their life. That's why it's dangerous!

I actually don't think that's been so constant at all. Especially since Elizabeth gets tricky in finding ways to put her family first by linking it to the cause. Which is not to say she might not destroy her family and then realize that she actually values it the more of the two.

See, I don't think Henry has a fatherly rapport with Henry at all. He's the cool uncle who always thinks Henry's cool and with whom Henry can adopt his "I'm a ladies man" persona.

Elizabeth's "everybody's in it together" was a great contrast to Philip's story of clearly *not* being in it together with everybody growing up. And all the other stories about people having to survive however they can in that place.

In season 2. When he's at the synagogue (I think) listening to Anton speak. I think the camera panned along the aisle and I was like…oh, Lenin's here!

I wasn't saying it was anti-Paige. I was saying if I were Paige I wouldn't have noticed Elizabeth's behavior as not-nice at all. And I would have thought "Oh, crap" when I opened the door to find somebody selling something.

He wore that back when he was scoping out Baklanov and I thought the same thing then.

Seriously, my mom wouldn't have even lasted that long. Paige is just way to open to whatever anybody is selling.

To be fair, she's really suffering because she's older. The Centre wants Henry too, Paige was just next in line after Jared (and maybe Amelia if she hadn't been murdered.) This is partly why I really hope they tell Henry because he's such a different kid I'd want them to show he would bring a completely different set…

Why would that be a time jump? He'd be traveling early in the year, which is winter. There's no reason there wouldn't be snow.

He's also got great instincts for lying. There are scenes where he lies really smoothly (even if he doesn't get away with it for other reasons) while Paige doesn't at all. She usually spits out too much information nobody asked for or is nervous or whatever.

Regular life would be just as good—actually better—explanation for that. Being groomed by the KGB, besides going against almost everything we see on the show (didn't work with Jared so the KGB learned to use the parents, the parents doing a better job with Paige, this kind of thing being traumatizing, the show…

To be fair, the idea is that his mother gave him plenty of fake documents and, presumably, instructions on who to go to to get any fakes he needed to get closer to the time of his departure. We didn't see the details, but they did in a general way say: fake documents.

We don't know that he knows their American names at all. But even if he did, he wouldn't know which phone book to start with—and even with the name spelling. But he's never said that he knew his dad's name was Philip Jennings.

Hey, he might get it more right than the KGB, given their track record!

Best Co-leads for me: Philip and Elizabeth on the Americans!

Three hunks of moldy black bread he said somewhere in the thread.

Random comment about another food thing in the ep that occurred to me later. There's a great parallel between Philip's flashback and the Ben/Brenda scene where he's making s'mores in his fireplace. In that scene cooking on the open flame is all about the novelty of it—s'mores are a fun thing people make when they're…

I think honestly that the payoff is going to come from the fact that they're really not terrible parents. They've shown a lot of interesting in wanting to care for their kids as individual human beings—they've put a ton of effort into that with Paige. But since Henry is basically independent, not in their faces with…

That's cool to know! I imagine a lot of his reports were like "And then these two guys spoke German very fast to each other. At one point they gestured to the sink. Maybe it was broken. Or maybe they were planning an assassination. Hard to tell."