Thanks.

My take is that your theory isn't something that's already happened, for the reasons already stated by 3hares, but I think it's quite interesting as a prospective theory.

Well, if the KGB recruited Mrs. Beeman, we know that they'd have a surefire way to get to Henry.

I grew up during the 1980's - I'm in my early 40's now - and don't remember ever having nuclear drills. So I was younger than Paige and Henry during the time frame of the show, but I was in grade school then.

Tuan's backstory is that he came over as a refugee (boat person) from Vietnam at some point after the war. He states that almost all of his family, including extended family, were killed when he was young in an American bombing attack on his village. He and his grandmother happened to be out of the village and…

Good catches on your first point. (Random side note: my father actually attended college with Hanssen at a fairly small liberal arts college, though my dad didn't know him very well.)

I agree that the show's version is probably better than the real-life KGB were. I assume a good bit of that difference is that successful schemes to steal information and unsolved murders make for a lot more dramatic television episodes than even real-life KGB successes - such as getting information from Aldrich Ames…

I thought that the guy at the bug lab looked more scared and desperate than guilty. The researcher's initial effort was to give P+E his cash and then car keys in the hopes that they'd just rob him and then leave.

I agree.

I agree. Oleg's new boss also mentioned Chernenko by name when talking to Oleg.

A couple thoughts:

I wonder if the writers are setting up a misdirection where, with all of the concern about Paige and Matthew, it will be something that Henry inadvertently says to Stan that will lead to Stan growing suspicious of P+E and thereby ultimately investigating enough to learn their true identities.

I agree.

The info I'm seeing is that FX picked up the show for a 13-episode Season 5 and a 10-episode Season 6, so you were presumably thinking of the latter season.

Per CDC guidance for handling bodies of people who died from Ebola, the body should not be embalmed - https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebo…

Interesting theory, but I'd be extremely surprised if your theory is correct. I agree with 3hares' replies. Some other points:

Sepinwall at Uproxx noted that Season 4 ended the day of the 1984 Super Bowl (January 22) and that the Sarajevo Winter Games ("Olympics" mentioned in this episode) ran from February 9 to 19.

I very much enjoy the show and appreciate Weisberg's writing talent, but I'm skeptical that Joe Weisberg has any great insight into crazy but true, never declassified stories from the Cold War era. My understanding is that his CIA career consisted of being there as a relatively low-level employee for 3-4 years in the…

"But even more implausible might be the fact that somehow the Russians would know exactly where to dig for a single body out in the middle of a field."

"it seems pretty implausible that the military wouldn't have incinerated the body of someone with an extremely deadly and communicable disease"