My bad, I meant to include Matthew. I think he's going to play an important role.

I could see the center killing them, shocking the whole Jenning's clan and causing a rift between Paige and her parents.

I was really surprised they turned to Tim for advice (even though he's the only real non-USSR option) after they were both so pissed off by his diary and they're also both pretty prideful.

No one has a happy ending on The Americans. Pastor Tim talking about how he's doing all this for his daughter was pretty much the kiss of death guarantee he's actually going to a "congregation upstate". Henry's celebratory school dinner=sure-fire certainty his dreams are DOA.

I don't know why I'm surprised you've continued to miss the nuance of my argument. My point is that a 16 year old child by every international definition (UN, Geneva Convention, Unicef) would be considered a child soldier whose maturity and actions under duress would make them exempt from being executed or jailed for…

I don't know where you're getting your definition of adult from, but the Geneva Convention, the UN, UNICEF, Child Soldiers International all consider people under 18, especially those forced to fight under duress, child soldiers who should not be executed or imprisoned for life for their wartime actions:

The Alexi family, the Connors family, William, Fred. All Russian, all government servants and all had doubts about the work they were being asked to do because it was either personally detrimental or detrimental to society/Russia as a whole. Elizabeth and Philip actively discouraged their doubts or went against their…

I realize that a typical betrayal in spy terms is going against your government, but I was pointing to the irony of it and to the show's overall questioning of what it really means to serve or betray one's people and government.

She also betrayed Baklanov, helping abduct him and get him shipped back to Russia to do forced scientifix work as a government prisoner.

She didn't betray the government, but she's betrayed individual innocent Russians. Alexi's family, Baklanov, William (though less innocent), Natalie, all Russians. One couldn argue some of her betrayals of them, even in service to the government, ran counter to the interests of the Russian people as a whole too.

She's spying on Alexi's family and encouraging active terrorizing of Pasha to force them back to Russia after falsely suspecting them for the wheat plot. She directly went against the wishes of William and gave the virus to the government after he saved her life. She killed Natalie even after knowing she was a Nazi…

They also actively shit-talked Kyle and his capabilities, which makes think him and Pastor Tim will play a role in their final unraveling.

I think she saw his hesitation and the fact he didn't think they deserved to die. She knew his conscience was already heavy from killing the bug lab tech and that this would shatter him. Towards the end even her face was getting soft with sympathy and you could see she didn't want to kill them. But she killed the both…

I thought the look on Philip's face at the end showed his disgust that she'd want to go back to Russia after everything that's happened.

"You betrayed your own people! You killed your own people!"

Or, you know, the writers are women: Wilson, Gibson and Schapiro to name a few.

DUN DUN!

I used to visit friends in Tucson often. To think, Dickachu could have been among us and we didn't even know. You should wear a sign.

Did anyone take a moment to reflect on the fact that during some of Dolores' time gaps, she was likely running around as Wyatt with a gang (likely of the other sentient offlined bots) making masks out of host's skin, dismembering them and leaving them to rot to death in trees, including Teddy?

I think we're being misled about Felix. In the first interaction with Maev, he tells her he's human and she asks how he knows. I think this is meant to parallel Bernard asking the robots if they questioned their reality without ecer questioning his own. I think her joke about him being one of them is a red herring.