Better that than listening to Paige whine for another ten minutes, perhaps.

I'm going with overall sloppiness, as they also had snow in Martha's scene.
No snow in Moscow in August…

Writing/Continuity kind of blew it there in their zeal to get the Reagan gaffe in.

This season had its moments (especially with Oleg and Martha), but by the standard set in seasons 1-3 it was absolutely terrible.
We had a ten-minute wedding scene followed by a ten-minute "let's develop film where we already know what's on it" scene.
Stan's plot went nowhere.
The wheat midge conspiracy was bogus.
The…

I half expected Tuan to fall on a knife 17 times.
Mind you, I thought there was a 15% chancew PHILIP was going to bag Alexei in Pavel's bedroom too…

Tuan is not a teenager.
He was school aged when his village was bombed in '67.
This is at least '84, so he's at least 23.

She knows what PHILIP looks like.
Plato Cacheris could get her a deal.

Keeps Matha from rashly trying to jump the wall at the US Embassy in a fit of desperation anyway.

I'm guessing another foreign service.
CIA needs a really good reason to start messing around with FBI agents and risk interagency shitstorm. Don't think Stan/Stan's Dept rises to that from what we've seen.

So the one thing I still don't understand from this season.
Tuan wanted to contact his host family in Seattle. OK.
What took him to Harrisburg PA? Was he going all the way to Seattle when he noticed he was being followed?
Long trip if he expected to get to Seattle and back by bus without P&E noticing he was gone…

Tuan is not a teenager.

Tuan's not a teen. 23 at least, if he was in school when his village was bombed in '67.

Considering GABRIEL was working in the late 30s for the NKVD, I'm pretty sure he's not around to see it. Just as well, given how he said 'America had a Lincoln, now they have a Reagan'.

Really appreciate your posts here.

Fly in some tourists.
Don't risk your deep-cover agents…

That was the plan back then.
Now, with the Internet, creating old legends is more difficult.

This bugged me too.
Send in the Traveling Team that killed Gaad even when they wren't trying to.

Season opened with 1984 Winter Olympics.
Probably Spring now, with Henry's school starting in the fall.

Zhukov wasn't the rapist's name.
Zhukov was a kind mentor/CLAUDIA's murdered squeeze.
Col. Timofeev, Timoshenko, Timo-something…. Pastro Ti—no, not him

I think we saw it when ELIZABETH got grabbed up by the goons sent by CLAUDIA in season 1.