Wondering that myself.

That would definitely shorten the old lifespan. And he wasn't smoking Marlboros - he was smoking custom cigs that probably made unfiltered Camels seem like ultralights.

No, I have an even better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death.

Could be a drinking game.

He seemed to have a better accent than most of the guys playing Germans.

When they went to 1937 they were dressed close enough. Lucy was wearing a skirt from the 40s and an underwire bra that hadn't been invented yet. None of the locals noticed.

Flynn told Lucy Rittenhaus isn't a who, it's a they.

Yes, they should have been in at least ankle deep snow.

Fleming was 56 and looked like he was at least in his 70s.

The thing that makes me wonder is they landed the Life Boat right in the middle of a Nazi patrol, killed them and then left the machine right where it was. I'm guessing the missing soldier would have been looked for, and those looking for them would have eventually found the machine. Of course any kind of show,…

That too, but I love throwing the gun in there. Plus there's a cool "Archer" reference there, since this episode was all about spys… :)

Rush would be a great old, worn out, near death post "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Ian Fleming partying to the end.

The writers will eventually have to deal with travel into our future, which many of us guess Flynn and Rittenaus are from.

But, of course, the important thing is to always look at the bright side of life.

Chekhov's Gun - if you introduce a gun in the first act you have to use it by the third.

Fleming was like Bond, in that he smoked too much, drank too much, and (as Ben Franklin would call it) went a whoring too much. The big difference was Fleming didn't have a license to kill. He was primarily a desk jockey.

Actually, that's a good way to explain almost all the historical lapses - the timeline's altered, so this guy is here at the party this time around because paradox/butterfly effect/dog ate my homework in middle school, etc

That's what I'm going with. Maybe it was connected to the Hindenburg crashing a day late…

I should have seen it coming, but was totally blindsided when Max Headroom p-p-plugged it in. Flynn was doing strategy instead of tactics.

Haven't seen anything yet. But, it was a hot property and the production deal includes streaming revenue, so NBC seems to be all in.