Small/hopefully unlikely fear: kimmie learns that the friendship she valued so much was a farce and harms herself…leaving Philip to have effectively committed Tuan (harmed a helpless teen with no dice in the game). I remember on one of the slate podcasts (I think one w/Martha) someone spoke about how women who were…

For a second right before e told Tuan to have his ppl send a partner…that she was going to say i might know someone…

Would Gabriel then also be suspected? Or is he too far removed from the FBI?

Did I misread or did Tatiana get arrested? (Didn't she approach Paschas about returning to Russia a week or two ago?) Or is the implication that she is about to fall on Olegs sword? Or did she provide him w the William info?

I may have missed something but do we know that this is his first assignment? He fears they will report his phone calls home to "his people" which left me thinking he had other jobs but this is his first one w p and e…could be totally wrong. Lots to keep track of/unpack.

Seriously. I feared Paige was going to end it the same way I feared Oleg was going to jump. But the Paige scene was more devastating than Oleg which at the time felt oddly cathartic.

I recall past references but am still confused about the point of the surveillance: is it to protect them or to make sure they aren't spies (or both)?

So no boarding school for Henry? (Have folks down below already discussed how that convo would go?)

Do we have any sense when he wrote the entry? I vaguely remember him having some "tender" convos with e in his office last season maybe…I thought he genuinely thought he was somehow helping her and Paige get closer. I don't think the timing of the entry matters so much in terms of Paige's reaction but I'm just curious…

Totally! I agree that it's a cry for help. But I think there is some anger (maybe a more accurate emotion will come to mind after coffee).

Ugh yes. But why do you think PT isn't being forthright w Paige? Is it bc he knows it will put him in physical danger if she tells her parents? Is it bc he feels like she needs encouragement bc he folks are neglectful? Is it bc he really should have gone to the police and now is complicent so any change of heart that…

Was thinking the same… I think she's angry at all adults here. Her parents for being duplicitous and putting insane pressure on her to withhold the truth and to decide the future of pt. PT for giving her encouragement to her face while actually thinking she is broken beyond repair. I think she really feels that way…

Ah. Now that you say this I can't help but wonder if maybe something bad will happen while either p or e is on a mission and the other will be forced to return to Russia (maybe with the false promise that the rest of the Fam will follow). If it's Philip maybe this will mean connecting w his son and reconnecting with…

I imagine tuan isn't making up the cancer part bc he knows they can check that out…but there is no way for them to verify a phone call…(Though I have a fantasy of Lester from the wire as a spy and somehow pulling survallence tapes…)

I was thinking the same thing about him not coming home the night before. Are we and p and e meant to believe that he would cross state lines multiple nights in a row for a phone call? And wasn't it late when he was getting on the bus? I'm not sure how long it would take to get to his destination but it is possible it…

Yeah but I feel like any note Gabriel writes might be taken as soft given his tired state. I can see Claudia or someone else trying to at meet Paige for something benign like coffee to feel her out. (Of course this gives Paige more to carry)

But would she really w something like this? Too risky w the wig maybe?

Yeah. I was wondering what Gabriel expects him to do with that? Get her stoned w his kimmy stash and try to turn her into an undesirable (read: stoned) teenage spy?

Yeah I was wondering if he will somehow get in trouble or red flagged by some higher up for looking at it. Or is it public record?

Honest question: had those portable elastic headlamps not been invented yet? In the shrinks office Elizabeth grips a tiny flashlight between her teeth…and it's not the first time.