There is not actually any difference between "Yes, she knowingly passed FBI secrets to the KGB but she was in love with the guy so it's unreasonable to expect her to behave differently" and "Yes, she knowingly passed FBI secrets to the KGB but she believed in the Russian cause so it's unreasonable to expect her to…

Who said he's not allowed to have his own life? He totally has his own life. But he's not allowed to do things that would endanger the mission etc. They weren't punishing him for leaving the house, they were two spies paranoid that another spy was fucking them over. He'd do the same thing. They explicitly basically…

The time jump was 7 months. She went to Russia on April 8, 1983. It's now about a year later.

If you just meant that Philip is a sad person and this shows I wouldn't have disagreed.

Yes, she was fooled, but a big reason she was fooled was that she wanted Clark. She wasn't even just some civilian, she was an FBI employee who would have been warned about this and took an oath to be vigilant about it.

No, I mean Henry.

Totally agree.

True, Philip isn't even close to the authority on who Henry is, or who anybody is besides himself. People having hidden sides is central to the show, and everybody in this ep was projecting their own feelings onto other people. So yes, no reason to take that line as carrying any weight.

They are a mother and father and these are their children and they love them. That's not a sham and that's what makes them a family. Parents being distracted does not make them not parents—I don't know what you mean by something being "off" in whatever relationship. Their relationship with their kids is real. Their…

If she were pro-Communism she'd probably feel just as betrayed eventually, actually!

Agree, except for the "obvious sham" part. Their family isn't a sham, they're just two different kids who would probably have been the same if their parents were exactly who they appear to be. Paige judged her parents as too selfish, not realizing they were actually self-sacrificing in the extreme. Henry thinks…

I didn't mean he was thinking about Henry going away to school, I meant that when he talked about raising a child it's just as likely he was thinking about being a father, which he actually is. Later, when Henry says he wants to go away, he doesn't want him to go away. And obviously if he left he would be more like…

The camp Oleg's mother was in was written on the file. I think it was in Kansk? And we know Philip is from Tobolsk, so his father worked at the camp there. The two cities are far apart.

Pretty sure he took all her beer, too.

He was in fine form in this ep, dropping in to visit Gaad's widow for the first time in order to get her to rubber stamp his intention to do exactly what he wanted to do about Oleg. I'm sure she appreciated that!

Reassurance is absolutely hollow if he feels he's lying. In fact, he tried to give her exactly that in a later episode, so I'm not sure why you're saying he never tried to give it. He told her she was beautiful and he thought she was find someone. Just being with someone and listening can be just as comforting as…

That doesn't really matter. She chose to give out secret information from the very important department she worked for. I'm pretty sure that as an employee there she would have been warned about people asking about her job. Not only did she buy Clark's story without checking on it, she gave more and more classified…

Sophia's, of course. The US has a higher standard of living, so if Sophia survives her treason and winds up in witness protection (if) her standard of living will be higher. But I was disagreeing with the idea that the KGB hasn't shelled out a ton of cash to American traitors for their work.

The theory really doesn't make any more sense now than it did. Both camps were identified and they're not the same camps.

I did totally think the reason he made sure not to let him tell him her wish was because it might be him.