That's how I felt about Oleg originally, just seemed like a spy-bro trying to horn in on Nina. Now he seems heroic.

Seriously. Why would the Centre raise the possibility of a job with a KGB-affiliated left-wing Christian NGO if only to kill him? They want him out of the Jennings' lives, that's it. This is a win-win-win.

I assume the opera music playing during Kevin's solo hotel room scene was Verdi?

On the off chance you're serious: the actor you're thinking of is Scott Glenn, who plays Kevin Sr. Denver Pyle, who played Uncle Jesse on the Dukes of Hazzard, died in 1997.

Maybe, but a lot of major libraries' reading rooms are like that. On the other hand, the same kind of shot from All The President's Men, where Woodward and Bernstein are at the Library of Congress trying to figure out what was going on in the Watergate story, could be read the way you're reading it.

I'm calling her Frau Farbissina's Daughter.

A way of asking the question without needing future knowledge is that scientists have discovered a person who contains in his body a cure for cancer, they just need to kill him to get it.

Or the machine irradiated her but she survived.

Maybe it's about how you answer the question — a classic ethics class type of question that brings up an objection to utilitarianism. It's not just whether you answer yes or no. She came off as kind of callous, "kids die every day, what's one more."

Uphill both ways. And I had to shovel it. We did not have a snow blower.

It looked like what I wore in 1984, was it different somehow?

Religion may not be have been officially encouraged, but the KGB really did recruit and co-opt clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church. So it would make sense that they have the priest as an asset. Exactly what he was giving Phillip information about, I was not sure.

Pretty sure he's a real priest, just one who has been recruited by the KGB to spy on what the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy might be involved with in the US. The KGB did in real life infiltrate parts of the Church. I don't think he would've tried to turn Philip onto praying if he was a fake priest.

Did Martha actually know, while she was gathering information for Clark, that he was working for the KGB? Should have known, should have suspected, definitely, but my recollection is that she didn't specifically know.

Perhaps one of Volodya's friends can fill Poor Martha's void.

"We used to call it the Reverse Cowgirl, but all the communal farms closed due to corruption."

When my son complains that it's taking too long for an app to load (more than five seconds), I like to tell him about how it took two minutes to load Lode Runner onto our Commodore 64 using both sides of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk.

I was pretty sure that was the guy from Crocodile Dundee.

It's a typical question in intro to ethics classes in college. It highlights an objection to utilitarianism.

I read it the opposite: that Phillip was telling her they should, with Gabriel's blessing, stop trying to make Paige a KGB asset. Elizabeth replied, basically, that it would be nice if the world was all rainbows and unicorns, but it's not, so we need her.