Shonda Rhimes will just kill off your character if she thinks you're ego is getting too big for her show. And if you piss her off really bad you're send-off plot will become so bad it enters the annals of tv-history under 'ghost-sex' (poor Jeffrey Dean Morgan got caught in the crossfire).

Oh, that's an interesting idea. I really thought her suggestion that Annett should move in with Ingrid was based on sisterly concern (and some worry that Martin would do something rash if Annett broke up with him and endanger the mission). I'm really curious now what Annett's next move will be.

Apparently Robotron was East Germany's answer to IBM (well sort of).
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It was played up for humor and to illustrate the mindset of these people. Ultimately it wasn't that hard to organize the right computer - a phone call to Dresden Tech did the trick. But that required admitting that they couldn't do it on their own (or rather with their own systems).

Ingrid also had Orwell's 1984 on her nightstand. Orwell and Solzhenitsy were definitely banned. Frisch is a more complcated matter - some of his books were published in the GDR. Not sure what about the diaries in question (1966-1971) could have caused problems but I have never read them. But the book was a West…

The fencing guy's reaction when Martin told him that he's waiting for his boss made it quite clear what Edel was up to. And Martin and cat lady bumping into the two generals at the same location in the evening leaves no no doubt that he was making arrangements for the evening and maybe indulged in a little amus-bouche.

Why do we know that Martin is not a donor match? In this episode Leonore only mentions that -she's not a match. Was this discussed before?
I think General Edel is just your average worried Dad who's out of his wits because he does not know how to connect with his daughter - didn't sound to me like he was trying to…

Well it didn't make it to last year's AV Club's best list so I'm not surprised - of course "If-Then-Else" belongs here.

Lena Lauzemis is a woman. Since they managed to place Petra in the Hotel where the conference was taking place they did not need Martin there or have him do all the Mission Impossible stuff - she's clearly better trained. I think that was the point the reviewer was trying to make with regards to her character.

So what was up with the Chinese/KGB operative? If I got that right she caught on to what Martin was because of his steak/room number blunders. But what was her endgame? Her actions made little sense to me. Unless she expected him to carry with him whatever he had managed to steal from Mayer's room and had intended to…

Hard to argue with that.

I've grown fatigued of the bad writing for (super)heroes love interests so my patience is running low but I'm willing to keep hope alive for a couple of episodes.

It was okay but let's not forget Angela Moss, the childhood friend who seems to come from the Iris-West-school-of-annoying-love-interests.

They said she would hardly remember anything about the evening at all. Looks like they roofied her. She behaved wildly erratic (after having been drugged), so even if she were to remember the general - who seems to have issues with her anyway - would probably not believe her.

He! That was quite the plan B. "If Castor comes through the door dump mommy dearest in the acid bath."

I don't think Alison wants her kids to be admitted to Clone Club. She can pass off Helena as distant cousin (have we ever been told how Helena was introduced to the kids?) who looks a lot like Mum. But adding Sarah and Cosima could spell trouble. The kids would probably talk to their friends at school about all their…

Leonora brought her sister not just a glass of Nescafe but also a bottle of Chanel perfume (that was the 'real' gift). I liked that she kept the Nescafe for her sister despite Schweppenstette asking if she had brought him some. That was probably her most sisterly moment.
Having grown up during that time - not in…

Well at least we got some definite answers: who's the original, what exactly happened to Duncan's laboratory, and how Sarah ended up with Mrs S.

He said 'We're everywhere' - easy to miss between Ferdinand's crazy awesome rant and all the bludgeoning.

Yeah, that crossed my mind too. But it would only work if his henchman was a Neolutionist too and willing to die for the 'cause'. Which given that we're talking about a crazy cult is definitely a possibility.