Do it. Look for a copy of his set list & make a play list of it, unless you're a fanatic & know *all* his music. Yes, he rearranges the old songs, but everything post-1997 is pretty faithfully reproduced, if that's an issue. Two years ago he only played one song from Shadows, to end the show. It was actually pretty…

Francine: You called me a pig.
Stan: I didn't say you were a pig. I said that dress made you look like a pig. And those shoes didn't help. All your fat, sweaty toes shoved in there like 20 Hondurans stuffed in a giant… shoe.

Mary can't blab. She's been living with a traitor. She may not be immediately thought guilty, but her standing in the community would be greatly diminished, as would her "father" (in-law's,) which I'm assuming she wouldn't want to happen. And more pressing questions would then probably be asked about the fire & dead…

I'm half expecting it to be revealed that Mary has photographic memory & now remembers the entire code book. Not that it would bother me much. I thoroughly enjoyed her quick turn from put-upon wife to active conspirator. Burn the body & house, install ourselves in the house hosting the enemy's head honcho. Brilliant.

Other people can argue & point fingers re: plagiarism. I don't really care, having no skin in the game. I enjoyed & was moved by the stories. If the man who presented them to us employed nefarious means to do so, well, it's the stories I'm interested in, not how they came to the printed page. Some professional…

You must have one hell of a series of family historians/genealogists to be able to trace your family back to the K Uprising. Very impressive.

So I guess you missed Hanks' groundbreaking performances in Roswell, which is where many of his biggest fans first saw him.

Thanks for the book tip. Just bought it ($5.99 on Kindle & Google.)

Re Lynch, one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet in a few hundred comments — his character's closet full of gifts for Jared. That suggests less than pure intentions toward an underage boy.

With all that's been happening at the FBI — Amador's murder, on the trail of Emmet & Leanne, Stan shooting Soviet guy, Arkady confronting Gaad, scientist being repatriated, other stuff I don't remember — I don't see the FBI taking any kind of Martha death at face value.

The shit storm that would result from the death or disappearance of Martha would break this show wide open. I just can't see how the show could handle it this early in its run. But that's my limited imagination, rather than my trust in the show, talking. The FBI would be put on a seemingly unimaginable high alert.

Surely Samaritan can deal with something like a virus rather easily. Recognize its origin immediately, take those particular servers offline, maybe. I dunno. I imagine it would require many, many people many years to create software to successfully attack Samaritan. Not unlike the effort to create The Machine itself.…

Control may have looked mildly sympathetic this episode, but she (wasn't she?) was part of the false flag operation that "killed" Harold, & killed many more. Anyone knowingly associated with that disaster can't justifiably call themselves a patriot who only ever did what they did for their country.

Surprised no one so far has quoted Oppenheimer's "I am become death…" Which is also a quote.

Sons of Anarchy, please take note.

Speaking of shuffling decks. A lesser show (most shows) would find a way to get us back to the status quo within an episode or two. Being so programmed to expect that, I'm feeling some cognitive dissonance, expecting a return, while knowing that's the last thing I should expect from PoI.

Greer appears to not realize that the parameters of Samaritan's searches are keyed in by humans. Somebody decided that consumption of porn is one possible aspect of a terrorist, or at least a criminal, profile. Greer seems to be the Anti-Root.

Well said. I only take issue with (seemingly most) people's take on Hersh being a bad guy now redeemed. I'm probably forgetting something, but seems to me he was always a patriot believing his mission helped secure his country. Not unlike Shaw, who always believed in the mission while having a problem with her boss.

We can still believe The Machine didn't necessarily want them to kill the Congressman. The merely needed to detain him, perhaps indefinitely, until they could address the Samaritan threat. Our heroes were backed into a corner, & all except Finch naturally assumed The Machine suggested murder because that had always…

Unwitting dupe is a bit harsh, if technically accurate. He seemed to me an analog of Lenin (minus the dupe aspect.) Totally committed to something he believed in, but knowing also that consensus is no way to run a revolution, and believing that the people he's killing deserve it. Absolute power corrupted him, but it…