Re: Aaron: nice to see L.L. Bean is still delivering!

Ah, yes—-now I recall while viewing it that that suggested something like the 1918 flu virus, found in a frozen corpse. Only later did I start to connect it with the photos of failed splinter attempts.

But he was her Daddy!

Plenty more where she came from!

A bit of a cliche, making the German scientist seem like an evil Nazi, wasn't it? It made me wonder if the writers understand the premise of the show.

More likely one of the early failed attempts—-didn't Pallid Man say it was hundreds of years old, so maybe an overshoot.

"I'm still kinda hoping Phillip and Elizabeth can save their country from dissolution."

There would have been no need to schedule anything. This was the 80s: you go to the airport half an hour before flight time, buy a ticket with cash under a fake name, etc. I doubt you would have even needed ID. People have forgotten what it was like in those days.

No, it's a lot more complicated. Any surgeon who could handle the gunshot could easily yank out the tooth, but with pain meds.

Surgeon has pain meds—-nuff said.

Taking a day off would have been too much? Two hours to fly, two hours to see a dentist, two hours to fly home. During the daytime, when she and Philip wouldn't have been running an op anyway. Sheesh, get off my back!

The home dentistry was completely gratuitous, in that the Soviet spy network had access to medical resources. Besides, Elizabeth is a travel agent: she could have flown to a far city to have had it taken care of there, without arousing suspicion. If I can think of such possibilities, the writers could have,…

This whole episode was either sloppy or lazy.

Which begs the question, why would anyone in the CIA have an open house, before clearing out his home office?

They had a secret surgeon, after all.

What then—-the noble efforts of Soviet spies to undermine the United States?

I was hoping the FBI would catch Philip and Elizabeth, torture them, then execute them.

This episode bored me for the most part, but though drowsy I'm pretty sure I saw a red-LED stoplight during the driving sequence—-that was careless!

Previous episode was "Baggage" not "Suitcase"

Ah, good point. For a "philosopher thug," he's really gotten around.