It was actually the same speculum throughout. It's called "Gary."

In most other situations/circumstances, I'd probably agree with you, but in a show so much about confused and overlapping identities, that sort of (I'm sorry) "trump card" is easier to play convincingly, especially if you want a layer of shocks for the finale.

Fun-fact: Gavaris' longtime partner also played The Trickster on The Flash.

My thinking is that she was already in contact with him (at a distance, perhaps monitoring, in case of difficulties or causes for alarm) and then brought him in after realizing Coady was still a part of this.

You have to wonder if it comforts Skyler that so many of the characters are played by the same person or if it weirds her out in some way and makes it more difficult to play the scenes as written.

"Oedipus, shmedipus, I love ya, ma!" — Robin Williams

This season, if anyone's really waging (or coordinating) the war, it's Mrs. S. Sarah has become relatively incidental, a suffering mother on the sidelines.

Art, Felix, Helena, Mrs. S, Alison, even (in a different way) Sarah have all be sidelined for extended periods on this show. Remember when they did it to Big Dick Paul? Season 3, was it? He maybe got 15 minutes total in the entire season.

We Frew, we happy Frewers, we band of cloners, for he who takes a Leda's blood shall be my brother….

There are no chill Jungians, much less chill Jungian clones. ;-)

You're not the only one; see my comments below. I'm about 90% sure that's not Alison.

We don't know Ira's dead. A tombstone doesn't mean he's actually dead.

I think Donnie already suspects it's not actually her. So, I suspect this'll get flipped pretty quickly — though it'd have to, I guess, with just three episodes left. ;-) I think, dramatically, it's also supposed to distract us from thinking of Mark as an infiltrator working for Mrs. S. It would also account for…

I'm very much inclined to think Alison 2.0 is an infiltrator. There were just far too many alarm-bells going off that it wasn't the Alison we know — and that Donnie himself is a little suspicious, too. Amongst other things, I think we can all agree that Alison would never tell Donnie that she's done telling him what…

Really? But it does look like James Frain's back in the mix next week.

They usually call themselves "Republicans."

Is it just me or did anyone else get the sense that "liberated" Alison isn't actual Alison, but an infiltrator? Alarm bells went off for me right away, but this seemed to be confirmed when we saw the dead clone with purple hair who was also a "creative" and a musician.

To be fair, Thursday's episode was dreadful. Even the normally adorable Kate Micucci couldn't save it.

I like how the tags for this article suggest The Strain of Insecure Ballers.