Surely Van Alden is smarter than to go into business with Mickey the Giggler.

Yeah, let's not give the writers any ideas. That's certainly *not* a bridge too far for that show.

But you have to take into account the rules for TV tailing of suspects. They can get as close as they want, but they're never seen unless the plot demands they be seen.

You win the prize! That's a perfect explanation. The diplomat was one cagey dude.

We all know Walker was spooked, seeing as how they found him at the mosque but didn't catch him.

Exactly. Realized at the end that we'd had almost no Henry, making sense of the fact that I almost enjoyed this episode.

And there I was having forgotten I ever saw Spanking the Monkey. Thanks for nothing.

Maybe Richard is going to be Jimmy's behind-the-scenes crime boss guy, getting Jimmy back up on his throne kicking ass & killing Manny.

I'm not totally sold on the idea that she was being intentionally mean. She didn't have much time to improvise, and she wanted to be sure Richard didn't say anything. Though if she knew him at all she'd know he wouldn't.

From here Van Alden becomes the criminal mastermind of Atlantic City, squaring off against Randolph, Rothstein & anyone else who gets in his way. He'd be a mean motherfucker of a crime boss, going totally over to the dark side. Tonight he took the final step in becoming Darth Vader.

Mayor Kane in Boss was pretty fucking evil Friday night.

Good to see Margaret back to being annoying & an annoyingly stupid fucking superstitious idiot.

I think we're still at the time when African-Americans were de facto unreliable witnesses in court, easily impeachable due to their skin color.

I don't think you're supposed to say that out loud. That and band camp.

So it's Brody and, to cover himself, he goes over to Carrie's & pretends he concerned that their tryst could go public.

Nothing says improvisation like rushing into a meet with a terrorist without stopping to thing about it first.

Feel badly for Carrie? She's an overzealous prosecutor of the war on "terror," whose incredible overeager-ness got several people killed. There was no need to rush it. Walker had been spooked & wasn't going to try anything the next day. Prudence would suggest they take a few days to assess the situation instead of…

I don't think we're meant to believe he was planning to run all along. Abu Nazir strongly suggested he take the opportunity when offered, and that seemed to be the first time Brody seriously considered it.

"They don't enjoy my company."

Surely there's a plausible way for Abu Nazir to have known the secrets w/o there being a mole in the CIA? Help me out here people. I really don't want a mole in the mix. I just want Abu to plausibly be one step ahead.