I think he said that the script explicitly referred to it like that. Benioff and Weiss had gushed about wanting to do a Bourne-like sequence, so that's on them, imo. Between a gut-wounded Arya doing parkour like Jason Bourne and The Waif acting all T-1000, the whole thing felt really weird, but honestly, I'm just…

The director, Mark Mylod, said in the behind-the-scenes featurette that he used them "because they looked pretty." That's it. He just wanted to add some movement and color to the scene.

Whatever the Game of Thrones version of Occam's Razor is (a razor that gives the most simple or obvious result but takes forever to achieve it. See: Dany in Meereen, Arya in Braavos).

You're not far off with the drunk sibling comparison. Stan has gone for several days without sleep, and he just returned from watching a man slowly die an agonizing death. I think he was more than a little loopy. And even on Stan's best days, he still makes questionable jokes like, "I see Elizabeth is not the only one…

I would think that Irina had secured the package in a safe place, or made arrangements with someone loyal to her to prepare the contents when the time was right.

Not Oleg, no! Why does Oleg have to be such a good son? Between Oleg and Arkady leaving the Rezidentura, does this mean the end of that part of the show? If so, not happy!

I majored in psychology with a focus on abnormal psych. I did a lot of research on serial killers that permanently scarred me. And more research recently for a Hannibal podcast, so.. yeah, that ship sailed a while ago. *waves to NSA*

According to his bio on the FX page for the show, Kiedrich was born in 2001 and is currently in the eighth grade.

Between Nina and his brother, Oleg has become increasingly disillusioned with the way his government is handling things. When Oleg told Tatiana about Stanislov Petrov, the Russian who single-handedly averted possible WWIII, Oleg wondered what decision he would make if he found himself in similar circumstances. Then…

Oh come on, it was just a little punching and light stabbing. It's not as if Elizabeth dropped a car on the dude. Paige is lucky there wasn't any luggage lying around. Elizabeth saved them both from rape and possible murder, but where was she when poor Mail Robot needed her? Will someone please think of the mail…

Enough of a difference to keep it on Level 4. So, from horrifying to unthinkable, maybe? *shivers* I made the mistake of googling the other pathogens. I don't want to see any images of the effects of lassa.

Tatiana had asked Oleg to procure a computer specialist (the "stepmother"). Although not explicitly stated in this episode, they found the code in the files they copied from Don's computer.

Oleg did graduate from the Russian equivalent of M.I.T. He probably minored in Dot Connecting.

I think her name was Sara. I hope that Paige was making an awkward joke, and Matthew rolled with it.

Right. I get her logic of the potential danger that Henry spending time with Stan poses. But the difference is that Paige had to try to reverse the damage that she had done while keeping an eye on The Tims; whereas working Matthew could make a perfectly fine situation turn bad. Her heart is in the right place, though.

How does Paige not understand that Tim and Alice are different from Matthew? Tim and Alice know that P&E are spies; Matthew does not. If Paige cannot grasp that simple concept, then maybe she's not ready to know about lethal bioweapons. Just sayin'.

When she said "Celery," I thought, "Did she say 'Selerie'? Is that a French name or something?" Then when he said the thing about produce, I lost it. Now I'm dying to know what the rest of her family members are named.

I loved how perfect the staging was for this show. Three men discussing stealing a pathogen that liquefies your organs and can kill thousands of people with the slightest mishandling. All while they are daintily sipping tea from china that looks strikingly similar to my grandmother's tea service. Whereas if this…

"I'm afraid that I just blue myself."

Or a trigger warning. Poor Mail Robot gets violated a lot.