No clue how that will play into it. Maybe now they'll start preparing him to go to a different boarding school…IN MOSCOW. Or maybe he could go to school somewhere else in Europe? I wonder if that would be possible if they went home.

I must confess I mostly remember those plane references because I loved that twig plane little Philip had in the flashback so much I kept on the lookout for and pounced on anything connected to it. :)

Henry was speaking about the hypothetical kids of all the hypothetical FBI agents. As in "Do you guys trust your kids." Stan answered that for himself that answer was no.

Did their union really break apart, though? We've had scenes earlier where someone couldn't kill (Elizabeth twice) and the other person steps in (Philip offered in both cases to do it for her). Here Elizabeth stepped in to spare him, then basically said she didn't want to do this anymore. They weren't having the same…

Yes, there were a lot of signs. This season alone they showed her expressing difficulty with not only sleeping with Ben, but the fact that she couldn't hate him. She was haunted by the Young-Hee situation. She asked Gabriel if there was something wrong with her because of her new feelings and told Philip she couldn't…

In 25 different states. All while needing to maintain a consistent cover with a full time job and kids.

People keep talking about needing to hide his height and I don't get it. So he's one of the many boys who has his growth spurt early. We've already seen him at his full height so what's to hide? Everyone knows he's tall.

Also that way Natalie had to watch her husband be killed for her crimes—and she still wanted to live iirc. I wonder if watching her husband dies is foreshadowing for Elizabeth.

It was what he had in mind last season. It seems like they've both discussed it as the most obvious thing to do.

Elizabeth was also recruited at 16. So if Paige might be, then Elizabeth was.

Elizabeth seems to take it as a given that he'll be the one to end up with the kids after she dies heroically that Philip almost has to be the one to die. Also then she can live with the fact that she's responsible. The show has a habit of letting Elizabeth get what she wants so that she can see how much she doesn't…

I don't understand the assumption that Philip will not be into returning to Russia when he has several times said he thought it was a good idea.

Philip tried to sell Elizabeth on the idea of returning to the USSR several times last season. He'd be fine with it.

How is "Let's go home" not the answer he's looking for? It's the answer he pushed for all last season. I think Elizabeth's far more afraid that she is going soft than Philip, because his issues are all starting to make perfect sense to her. She's said this out loud more than once this season. Their deeply held beliefs…

According to one Soviet scientist interviewed they did weaponize some virus in Afghanistan. But in general I agree about it not making sense—and not getting why Claudia would tell it to them anyway, or why the Centre would give them that info.

I disagree. Philip would be happy in either place—he was trying to get her to go back home all last season. And I think he does have attachment to it, it's just different from Elizabeth's, who feels that she *should* be attached to it.

Just had to add a favorite moment to the flight symbolism—in Philip's very first flashback the first thing we saw was a toy airplane made of sticks woven together that Philip was playing with. (He later told Alexei that "Brad" wanted to be a pilot ever since he was a kid and an uncle gave him a balsa wood plane kit.)

I can't believe for a second she got the мы right. That vowel is a bitch!

I feel totally sure that Henry would hate New Coke and lecture incessantly about it and then only drink Coke Classic. It would be like his earlier monologues about Star Trek II.

I disagree. Their priorities really aren't that different at all. Elizabeth just has a certain set of priorities that she thinks a good person should have, and she spends a lot of time trying to repress her actual instincts. When it comes down to it, they are not in conflict. Sure Elizabeth was ready to kill this…