I would see prison as better circumstances to what? In prison a person might be sentenced to solitary confinement. Martha's allowed to meet people and have a social life and she has people coming to teach her English to facilitate that. My point is that she's alone now but she's not forbidden to not be alone.

I really liked how Philip's reaction didn't seem to be primarily about the ideology but rather just being a poor man whose son wants this.

I agree. I think she's humiliated and wasn't about to put on a happy face for Gabriel (much like Gaad's wife and Stan) and give him absolution, but she wasn't falling apart. She's lived a lonely life before. Some of the things Gabriel was saying were right, even if Martha for good reason didn't need him to tell them…

Plenty of those people didn't really do it by choice (or did it by choice the same way Martha did—it was her best option). There are people who have been thrown into foreign parts of the world under far more terrible circumstances than Martha. Of course it must be a terribly hard adjustment for her to make, but she's…

Paige and Elizabeth are the ones who were reading Hotel New Hampshire.

There are things that are worse than death. I wouldn't consider having your own apartment in which you're eating a baked potato in a foreign city to be one of them. Many people have done that and went on to have happy lives.

Philip told her both of those things.

He's like Pastor Tim taking 600.00 from Paige at all, much less without speaking to her parents. If Philip was an actual regular American he would have called that guy and ripped him a new one for it.

Being secretive doesn't equal having the attitude to be a spy, it just equals being slightly introverted. Besides, that's even truer of Paige.

Wow, I don't see that at all. Far from leaving a hole in his life I think he's thrilled to be rid of that responsibility. I can't think of a single scene where he actually enjoyed her company—or a single scene since then where he was wanting to be with her. He cared about her, thought she was a nice person, but she…

LOL! The Henry plan is like the Trojan Rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They get the French to take the rabbit inside the gates, but only then find out they're supposed to be inside the rabbit at the time.

I think he said he disappeared on them. So maybe they think he ran away? If he's actually over 18 that might not be a problem for him to just take off but occasionally call.

That was me, but I wasn't actually making the case for Kimmy the spy, just saying that Kimmy has had a secret adult quasi-boyfriend for a year without her dad knowing and does not seem to be bothered by the lying part. It's not that Kimmy is so great, but that Paige is exceptionally bad at it. In that sense yes, Kimmy…

No, there's no reason to think she took home documents before she started bringing them home to Clark (who hadn't even asked her to bring home documents). That was before Walter Taffet.

I don't know why it being the 80s would be a reason for her to not be warned about this stuff. She's an FBI employee working in intelligence. I know we can't say for sure what she was instructed about, but why would the FBI be so clueless as to think the only thing they'd have to worry about was the secretary not…

I got that from people who had posted here who did work for the government. Not as FBI agents or anything, but just tech people whose company was doing work for the government. They were warned about exactly that repeatedly.

It wasn't said explicitly until she was at the safe house with Gabriel and Philip. Before that she knew she was passing secrets to something hostile to the FBI not in the US government.

Well, yes, but the rich old men are a really good analogy. They are naive because they want hot women to love them. They get what they want.

That's totally how it looks to me. There's been nothing fake about his upbringing at all. Plenty of kids have parents who work a lot on boring jobs like travel agencies.

To me the Gabriel/Martha scene worked because it was all about Gabriel trying to comfort himself with the idea that he'd saved Martha. I suspect he'll seek out Mischa down the line too to make amends. But I agree, Martha herself is in no position to really have a storyline of her own now. She was just there for what…