Didn't the person who originally had Jim's role get an assignment out, iirc. Perhaps he was the only option as in someone willing to play the role.

She had a miscarriage. In her newer understanding of her faith, the miscarriage was God's punishment for the sin of bullying Jean which led to her suicide and therefore Abby committed murder…in her perspective.

I agree. Sure hope she survives. If she does, it's probable she'll have no memory of what happened so it can be chalked up to her tripping, falling, etc. She might not recall finding the pitchpipe and talking with Jim since we know Jim is flitting about on the day of the test. Guess I'm just hoping Fritz isn't a…

The makeup really accentuated his dilemma - Jim's benign features hidden in the grotesqueness of the white and smeared black. Which visage of Jim will win out?

That stood out to me as well. I was never taught any of this, but learned about it over the past recent years as end of days has been discussed in political context. So the moment Abby said Palestine, I thought 'here we go'.

I was amused but very annoyed to see the expected blatant racism of the two 1945 women belittling Mrs Ortiz regarding the vacuum - she must think it a god or something. But then she comes forward with her son's observation…clearly understanding the implications of a suspicious activity near The Hill.

I rewatched the dinner, again. Cotton is touting his treatment as very effective, getting patients from all over the country and even Europe. That implied to me Europeans of position, not immigrants.

"I'm a little harder to explain" - Algie assisting Bertie.

'I'm harder to explain' was really very funny!

I thought that too, but figured it was simply way too much of a subplot to add to a list of subplots.

Wait - isn't Hodgman the last name of the actor who plays Cotton?

There's another thought. Perhaps he's one of the physicians doing immigrant checks and is involved with the checks of the first and second class passengers. There's nothing that says Aldo was the only one on board that was ill, or that the ship he was on was the only one with ill individuals in first and second…

What I so appreciated about Dr Zinberg was that his questioning about Algie being there was not because of race but because he's not a staff member. He questioned why the more competent surgeon wasn't doing the operation…and then jumped in to help.

Totally agree with your observations. But it must have been extremely uncomfortable to work in such starched clothing and that horribly high and tight collar.

But a shipping company agent at point of embarkation allowed the sick man onto the ship into second class, iirc, which allowed him to have a cursory physical exam when the ship arrived into NY waters.

I watched it again last night, or at least tried to stay awake at least to the dinner. Sister was sitting in a chair in the background not looking at Eleanor and Cotton when Gallinger came in. As Gallinger expressed his displeasure at seeing Cotton, I believe he turned to glance at the sister. Regardless of that,…

And they have a weekend alone on the horizon! And Bertie's now a man!

I was just thinking…we don't know the amount of time that past between last week's episode and this one. My impression of Gallinger when he walked into his house for dinner, was that he was pretty frazzled. I assumed it was immediately after the first day ( or maybe second or third) of involuntary vasectomies. And…

Bertie and Genevieve, Henry and Lucy, Thack and Abby; three couples at the ball - how many potential encounters/blowups can there be? Lucy went of her way to plant the idea of Bertie attending with his new girl.

Oh!!! Fabulous thought about Cotton! Of course Eleanor poisoned him! She's a murderer, darn close to psychotic if not, and she is doing him in. Wow! I thought he was having a heart attack, but poisoning makes so much more sense…unless the sister did it.