Of course turning Paige into a spying turncoat is bad enough in itself. But I'm not sure that your certainty about Paige's life if she becomes a spy is accurate. We don't know that would be the case. It would limit her usefulness and her value if there were limits to what she might be asked to do. That's not the way…

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Sorry my comment bothered you but I don't think it's really a spoiler at all. I don't care to see those either. Every other episode involves scary Liz, and being surprised by a character's scene is pretty non-descriptive. Not much there. And my comment was made in reply to a comment that's far more descriptive. But I…

Stan was honest with her in the first real conversation they had with her (much to Aderholt's dismay), telling Sofia how dangerous helping them would be. He still feels guilty about Nina, of course, and feels compassion toward Sofia. I think maybe that's where his caution comes from.

I think you misunderstood my comment. The Jennings lied about the wheat mission right after they knew their intel was wrong, then lied about it again in last night's episode to keep Paige thinking that the US government had created the bad wheat and that they heroically stopped them. All to keep from shining a bad…

Or the agents will be gutted when she gets destroyed in some manner.

He's toast for sure.

I think it's more that Liz and Phillip don't want her to know their marriage was a lie, never happened, just a cover story. I don't think Paige is soul-less at all. This isn't Supernatural.

I suspect you will get your wish.

When she finds out the whole truth of a Soviet spy's life, it will be crushing because it's a shitty, stressful life and she'll know her parents straight-faced lied to her to suck her into it.

I agree. Even if it only means they sympathize with her, how can they help but like her? Stan's empathy for the assets they use is now, I think, a big part of him after Nina and Oleg, but he can't afford to mess this up. Aderholt is too focused at his job to let caring about assets get in his way.

Paige's happiness and relief amid the lies of her parents actually hurt me to watch. It was creepy to watch them reel her in a little bit more with such deception, moving her decidedly closer to life as a spy in this episode.

The looks on both their faces during the marriage rite really got me. Elizabeth had to be kind of swooning over Phillip arranging the wedding, so romantic. In a two killer spies secretly marrying in a dank, dark, creepy building kind of way.

It does seem that Phillip is feeling protective of Stan. He doesn't want to feel responsible for Stan's destruction or, I think, see it happen. I have to admit I'm as curious as Phillip to know the truth about Stan's girlfriend! And I'm really worried about Oleg. Are the persistent authorities sniffing around for one…

Does Paige know her parents weren't actually married? I didn't think that was the case.

It probably is a good idea to remove Pastor Tim from Paige's orbit, but I'm wondering how just sending him far away guarantees he'll keep the Jennings' secret. I'm sure the Center feels the same way and Tim is a dead man. But I could be wrong.

Yeah I was startled at the snippet of the scene with Henry. Glad the kid has some air time but whoa! And apparently scary Liz makes an appearance. Pretty excited to see the next episode.

I want to add that this is just a nagging irritation for me. I liked the episode. Just wish the writers would make a character I really like be more forthcoming.

Do you mean more conversations where Joan ignores Sherlock's sharing his feelings or ones where she responds? Regardless of which you meant, such things happening off-camera don't really help us know what the characters are thinking if we are not privy to them. We can't be expected to guess, yet we have to do just…

I am very weary of Joan's silence in response to Sherlock's reveal of his emotions to her. It's unkind, rude and just plain weird. When you imagine this happening to you in real life, you'd start seeing it as rejection.