We can be sure be sure that the Universe is not finished messing with Barry. But Barry doesn’t know that; all he can do is to respond to the current challenge, in hopes that surpassing it finally punches his ticket to a better life where he can turn the page on his ugly past.

And so did every manager up the chain who knew exactly what the schlub was doing and who fully approved of it. Yet only the schlub takes the fall.

The point being made in this brilliantly written episode is not only that a committed person can change his/her nature, but also that a person is not necessarily defined by any horrible things in his/her past.

Imagine being so young that seven years makes a difference.

This is what I think happened, as well. The wiping of Kelly’s memory did not take, and she remembered everything she had experienced in the future.

This is correct.

I remember reading about an old-timers’ game in which Babe Ruth participated a few years after his retirement. He hit a long shot that was foul by a couple of feet. He rounded the bases anyway, and everyone enjoyed this magical moment.

But in legitimate competition, getting the call right is the only…

Ah, that’s true. Barry was assigned to kill Ryan (who was not Barry’s buddy; they had just met); but he found that the Chechens had already done it. Then Barry killed the Chechens; and this is the murder for which the police were investigating him when Janice almost arrested him. Got it. Thanks for the correction.

That…

I don’t know if this has been discussed, but I presume that the fact that the female Moclan planet will be left alone going forward (assuming the Moclans keep their end of the agreement) means that the Moclans can reproduce from the union of two females, just as they can from the union of two males. If so, this in turn…

He was not “disgraced”.

Barry’s hate-filled look at the end of the episode is actually quite the opposite of sociopathic. A sociopath lacks empathy; but Barry’s obvious anger towards Sam is based entirely on his empathy for Sally.

Barry’s inability to kill Hank illustrates that he is through with killing. However, that last scene really makes me hope that he has one more in him.

Did I get the name wrong? I am referring to the member of the acting class whom Barry killed right at the beginning of the series. This is the murder that Janice was attempting to arrest Barry for, was it not?

I agree that the killing of Chris was indefensible. But I cannot equate that to the killing of Janice.

Let me be clear that I am no anarchist; furthermore, I am a staunch advocate of gun control. Therefore, as an organising principle of society, the notion that law enforcement should have the exclusive right to deadly…

Ah! I didn’t see that it was a link.  Thanks.

“Slightly shorter”, as in half. From New York it takes more than ten hours to fly to Hawaii.

When I was a kid, Arby’s in New York had the Jack-in-the-Box menu; so I would go there for deep fried tacos. I was an adult before I ever ate a taco that was not deep fried.

Sadly, the Arby’s here do not carry those items…

A great episode, as usual for this series.

Indeed! Bortus should have dumped Klyden over the Topa matter, or on account of the stabbing, or after Klyden’s reaction to the Moclan who was attracted to females. I hope he is finally getting close to that sensible move.

I’m not exactly saying that killing Janice doesn’t count because she was a cop.

The geniuses who follow this team cannot figure out that the arena in Brooklyn, while not ideal for hockey, is located at an LIRR terminal. There is thus no good reason for these Long Island knuckleheads “fans” not to fill that arena for every game.

As far as we have seen, the only innocent person (meaning: neither a gangster nor a cop) whom Barry has killed has been Ryan, in the series’s first episode. And that was the beginning of the end of the evil part of Barry’s life.

Even Chris, whose killing was not justified, was hardly innocent, as he and Barry had just…