The events being depicted are leading up to the passage of the Boland Amendment in 1983 banning overt support of the Contras. Which in turn eventually leads to the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986. The CIA's mining of Nicaraguan harbors played a large role in this.

Tell us more about how you do not know what you're talking about and why anyone here should value your opinion?

The assumption is that they landed near Astoria on the Oregon coast. Or it could just be that the writers wanted to include the mouth of the Columbia river in the episode to show that they were back in Oregon.

The USAAF regularly did flights much like the one depicted in this episode, Zurich to Oregon via the Arctic, back in the 1940s using the same type of airplane (DC-3/C-47). The extra fuel cells being a very common and plausible modification. Still you're talking about a flight lasting 30+ hours in a unpressurized cabin…

I got the impression that the whole scene on the empty subway platform was a "Don't say I didn't warn you" moment. Root basically told Greer that it was her intention to free the machine, presumably she was referring to Samaritan when she said that.

The FFL these days are mentioned from time to time in the foreign press operating in French Guiana and some of the worst spots in Africa. Not the sort of places featured often on American TV shows. Though if someone was looking for hired guns with a reputation for a disregarding personal safety and not being shy about…

Vigilance comes across as if they do not yet know what they're dealing with. They seem to think they are going against Government agencies and corporate actors. When actually it's gone way beyond that.

5 years is not suddenly, especially in an era when most people didn't live past 40.

I saw an edited for TV version of Full Metal Jacket, the result was absolutely surreal.

The colors of B&W TV and film are a lost art. Actual greys and darkness would have blended together in a visual mush. The set designer had to get the look and feel of the Addams Family home in that medium. That's why we've the picture of counterintuitive pink and white.

Yes it is messed up, never forget that.

There's a little more to it than that. Sally Hemmings was Martha Jefferson's half sister.