I’m not even sure Adriana was dumping Lucy. What exactly did she say to her? Something along the lines of, “I think you should move to your parents’.” She did also say something about not wanting her back at the house, but I didn’t get the sense it had anything to do with her having lost any feelings for her.

Time will tell if they’re broken up. I got the sense that Adriana was pushing Lucy away for Lucy’s safety. Lucy probably didn’t help by saying “your job or me” in other words, but she didn’t have a lot of time to prepare a response, either.

In the real, non-Homeland world a mental illness diagnosis effectively rules out a federal security clearance. I think he was just making it clear to her that the Feds were going to do any and everything possible to call her credibility into question in the eyes of others.

Cartels have been destroyed in the past and another invariably fills the vacuum. What the OGA is working on is more akin to a coup d'état with post-coup managerial influence than a law enforcement action.

Yeah, that’s what the Platonic ideal detective does. But in the real world the majority of detectives skate by on their assumption that they’re smarter than suspects + the fact that most criminals *aren’t* very smart.

The ATF would presumably be interested in the cartels’ role in the cross-border arms trade. The CIA would presumably be interested in the cartels’ role in social stability or the lack thereof in Mexico (which is to say that they are realistic about the possibility of stopping the drug trade and are looking to manage…

Esta morra es dura.

She managed, with great difficulty, to lie about Gus during the standoff on the bridge last season. And as if that were not hard enough for her, Marco gave her grief about it, and he was the one who had advised her that sometimes a lie is better than the truth!

– I understand [Sonya’s] personal issues concerning Hank and Marco’s abuse of her trust, but surely she can see the complex moral issues these two have wrestled
with. –

No sense of place? Where else in the world could this storyline occur? Ceuta?

– I think Eleanor will have a respect for Sonya. In Sonya's mind, Eleanor's a child-killer, nothing more. –