Does that really make it more terrible? Betraying your country for sex/love is probably a pretty common reason, I would think, along with doing it for money or blackmail.

IKR? Definitely better than…actual death.

I'd be surprised if she had any way of knowing about Illegals. But I guess one thing could lead to another and so on and so on.

That would be trading a Soviet spy for another Soviet spy. The Americans would want to get one of their own spies back and the Soviets would not want to hand over somebody who can describe their Illegals.

It's not like the Soviet Union didn't often pay their sources a lot of money. Sophia's not getting the royal treatment, she's basically getting what Martha's getting, only on a US scale, which is bigger. If Martha had a kid he'd be getting an education there too.

We don't actually know that they're writing Henry out or don't plan to have him find out.

Nope, nada. We glimpsed him in that one flashback and he mentioned him that time. If you want a name you have to check the cast list on IMDB. (Which also lists him as 2 years older than Philip.) That's it.

They have plenty of time to give him a meaningful story. It doesn't have to be a repeat of Paige (god, no) with the whole step by step introduction to spying. Frankly, this kid doesn't seem like he'd need it since he seems to grasp the basics more than she did. (She's especially out of touch with it it seems.)

That wasn't cold, it was total sympathy. There was nothing for him to say, so he just listened. Reassurance is hollow. Philip, in particular, has never been anything like cold to his children and when he's distant it's because he's depressed.

Because they were ordered never to speak Russian ever. Speaking Russian makes it too easy for them to slip into it at other times.

I thought the teacher said as much, that he was being moved up at a ridiculously late time in the year. But apparently Algebra II is a lot of review according to some, so he could do it.

Exactly. This private school idea doesn't have to lead directly to Henry leaving the show, as if it's a done deal. He's touched on something that Philip's been mentioning all season, the difference between what he (Philip) grew up with and could hope for and his son's more outsized, entitled ambitions as a middle…

I think there's just as good reason to take him at his word. It's not about private school, it's about THIS private school where his friends are going and that has captured his imagination with Chris's important dad writing him a letter and it being so elite with all those fancy things going on. It's a country club.…

The season started early in 84 and it's probably now early spring to explain the cold.

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. He pretty much was ordered. And he's said that he'll do it if he has to, but the KGB isn't just making him jump through hoops to prove loyalty.

Who says he wasn't thinking of both his sons there? He was obviously upset at the idea of Henry going away.

Gotta disagree with you there. I think from everything we've seen from Henry he's absolutely shown some signs of liking the school for the yuppie-aspects. Of course he'd present it to his parents strictly as being about him getting a good education without distractions, but he also mentioned all the snooty traditions…

I wouldn't be surprised if Mischa's next up on Gabriel's Repentance Tour. He tried to make it up to Martha, why not go talk to Mischa like a grandfather?

All signs point to it turning out much worse. She would have found an *actual* Jim, some older guy who really did want to sleep with a 15-year-old. And that would have turned out however it turned out. Seems a lot better that she's hanging out with an older man who has a more appropriate interest in her. I mean, it's…

I love how Stan keeps getting credit for raising a kid he has not raised at all.