It's also something about the Soviets' suspicion that the US is sabotaging their wheat sales to the USSR.

Hairilton: A Fake American Musical.

"We weren't digging a grave."

The scariest thing to me about the current geopolitical situation is: a young man who served his country watches helplessly as it is defeated in a major conflict. About 20 years later he rises to become that country's leader and is ready not only for revenge but to have it become the world's preeminent superpower. If…

Sounds like a sitcom. "What happens when a baby-faced Communist sleeper spy rooms with a disaffected Soviet veteran just looking for his dad? Find out this fall on FOX."

Try Stan's purple leotard woman.

When Tip O'Neill retired from Speaker of the House and published his autobiography in 1987, he wrote something like, "Gorbachev seems like a nice guy, but make no mistake, the Soviet bear is as dangerous as ever."

It all seemed very quick back then. You had Brezhnev in office for nearly two decades, then his two immediate successors both died relatively soon.

His predecessor Yuri Andropov actually died during the 1984 Winter Olympics, which not only took place in a Communist country but also took place between the US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. The Olympics watching, the Washington Post article,…

Phillip is a Compassionate Communist.

Yes. I remember them in alternative papers like the Village Voice.

William always did look a little sickly. Maybe he had a congenital heart defect.

The body bag said something like "Warning, Do Not Burn."

Exactly - which is why I thought Will was going to bring that up when their boss called them on the carpet.

I believe either he or their current boss was stated to have worked in internal affairs in law enforcement. Which is not exactly consistent with shooting suspects in the head, but it is consistent with trying to root out "subversive" cops.

I think it would be along those lines. Or it will be something like they'll believe that when the countdown is complete, true believers in The Greatest Day will receive new spirit or physical bodies, perhaps blended with alien bodies or consciousness, to live with the aliens on a New Earth.

Yet it was Burke who saved Will's life when the huge Red Hand guy came at him and would not go down.

I am thinking about the main character in Fatherland, a devoted detective but not a fan of Naziism necessarily, who comes to learn the horrible truth.

I didn't see it as Will allowing Frankie to kill herself. I don't think he knew she was concealing the poison (looked like a Listerine Strip version of a cyanide pill) and actively tried to keep her alive to get information his way. I definitely saw the Nolan-Maddie ad as a Scientology dig, the stuff with Lindsay…

I am thinking future episodes will explore if this knowledge will shake Nolan and Maddie's faith in The Greatest Day — or strengthen it.