Although I like your assessment, we know by his own admission that Gabriel was in retirement in the USSR before being brought back into the cold to manage Philip and Elizabeth. So you can retire and go home. But there are always strings attached.

The ending of this 'The Conversation,' with Bobby sitting crestfallen amongst the physical wreckage of his office, recalled the ending of the motion picture 'The Conversation,' with Harry Caul presiding over his demolished flat.

I am grateful Wendy left Axe Capital. It was great drama when she was there, but keeping her there and her also having any kind of relationship with Chuck would have been untenable over the long haul of a multi-year television series.

Although I think there is a connection, I think Harry would have made it abundantly clear to the audience that the apocalypse was caused by diseases. As it is, we know things went south after the Kennedy administration ended and there were bombs. The world we see is bad, but it does not appear that the world is in…

I never thought the Oswald plot was dull. There was the Walker assassination attempt. The de Mohrenschildt tie in was compelling and interesting. The problem with the Oswald story is Oswald: just as in real life we have to walk through the morass of a lonely loser striking out against what he perceives as an…

Their on-screen chemistry was remarkable.

It was not so much that Sadie was brought to the gun fight, but more a matter that she was as committed to stopping the assassination as Jake was. What the novel makes clear is that the 'Obdurate Past' is a character in this story and it was even more committed to letting events go as they did.

In fairness, the series adaptation did set up Sadie's family connection to Lisbon early on in the series. And, frankly, I thought it was a lovely meeting that eases Jake's pain and makes it easier for him to leave things be.

It may seem like a deus ex machina because it was mighty convenient for JFK to call and effectively exonerate Jake. But there was no love lost between the Kennedy clan and Hoover's FBI, so one could believe that JFK would be more willing to accept the findings of the Secret Service compared to one provided by…

Yes, I saw that, too: the graffiti on the destroyed factory wall. That and Harry's statement that his mother passed away from a bout with the flu.

'The past is obdurate.' Say it, now, brothers and sisters, 'the past is obdurate.' So I suppose the past is more stubborn and inflexible than angry or cranky. That said, do not mess with it.

Yes, I believe that was him. The Flagg simulacrum appeared to have been dressed in denim, and I thought he resembled the Jamey Sheridan characterization from the 1994 ABC mini-series.

Another Stephen King literary easter egg was the 'Captain Trips' graffiti written on the top of the burnt out factory wall. I suppose that complements the Randall Flagg illusion from the mob scene in Dallas. Well, that and Harry mentioning his mother passed away from the flu make for a most intriguing confluence of…

Bill's demise is a tad bit convenient, but to be fair the character's story had run its course.

The point of the character, Bill, was to give Jake a sounding board. Without Bill, the storytellers may have had to resort to interior monologue (e.g., voice-over) or other forms of exposition as Jake navigates his way through the past to find Lee Harvey Oswald and determine his culpability in the assassination.

I think it is clear that Carol became involved in Tobin's life in terms of their being tender and caring with one another, so I think she did leave a letter with someone with whom she is close. They had something. We just do not understand what that something was.

The Kennedy's had a strange and, at least for me, disturbing relationship with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. A careful observer of the Army-McCarthy hearings will note that Bobby Kennedy was a counsel for the McCarthy's sub-committee.

That was The Madison Time, a line dance with calls to various dance moves popular in the late 1950s. The song was originally recorded by Ray Bryant.

Because the future has yet to be for them. There is no place for them to go. Jake can go to the past because that moment in time exists.

oderint dum metuant.