Leonore feared that she had to face either a literal fall-out if someone behind the Iron Curtain pushed the red button or a metaphorical fall-out with her superiors because Kolibri, her asset and her nephew, went off the rails. Getting out of Dodge looked like the best option. And we've seen her becoming less…

I think this episode had two of the best scenes of the whole season and they both did not involve the main players. The first was Alex breaking down during the interrogation with the BND guy. I found Alex a very difficult character to like but damn did Ludwig Trepte act the hell out of that scene - for the first time…

Yeah, I've no idea why Tischbier should kill Thomas. If Schweppenstette had wanted to get rid of Thomas he would have had plenty of better options. Keeping tabs on Thomas via Tischbier makes a lot more sense.

It was right at the end of the episode IIRC. But I really expected some fallout even if Edel was being stone-walled. It was not just about the death of his trusted aide but also about what the hell his missing son had gotten himself into.
As for the later, it's possible Edel decided that he did -not- want to know.…

Yes, after all the Soviets did activate their nuclear arsenal but we don't really know to what extent. Since source material on the topic is scarce* historians still dispute how extreme the reaction and the threat actually was.
*And not very reliable - in the documentary I mentioned there are folks who I wouldn't…

Walter acted more or less as a stand-in for project RYaN - the Sovjets intelligence gathering operation to to predict a nuclear attack by the West. The whole operation was from the get-go deeply flawed by the paranoia of the leaders. Reports contradicting said paranoia were ignored and the agents reprimanded - it got…

He! But who has still floopy (honoring Martin's pronounciation) disks at hand? I do - but then I can almost remember the T-Rex roaming the earth.

Yes, that was really a dangling plot-line they never resolved in a satisfying way. I wonder if some of that ended on the cutting room floor.

Hot and no longer clumsy like in the beginning. It was really his coming of age story. The man we see in the end is not the guy from the pilot anymore who enjoyed scaring the bejesus out of hapless Western students by spouting off propaganda.

What should we mail Sundance, paper German flags? I vote for red balloons.

Yeah - they dropped the ball there. Still it was raining parentage anvils for at least two previous episodes.

But still insisting that Deutschland 83 is a lot messier than it’s given credit for by the uniformly drooling critics .
For most of us (incl. some of those drooling critics) the identity of Martin's father was anything but a bombshell because hints about it have been all over the last couple of episodes not just this…

Plenty of sites made a lot of fuss about the pilot but AFAIK none followed that up with regular coverage except the AV club.

Too bad General Edel lost his cool - he should have seized the opportunity and try to turn Martin. Right now I'm really worried about Martin, German tv is not too fond of happy endings (and neither is Sundance from all I've seen of Red Road).

Great scene to humanize the character - worked better for me than his conversation with Martin in the hospital about fathers and kids where he still was playing the game.

Königsberger Klopse are not an awkward lunch - it's a traditional dish and quite yummy! And as the name implies they predate the GDR - but it seems the show slightly stumbled by calling them Königsberger Klopse, he!

Wikipedia is really helpful - I had heard of Able Archer before but RYaN was new to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… "…the largest, most comprehensive peacetime intelligence-gathering operation in Soviet history. Agents abroad were charged with monitoring the figures who would decide to launch a nuclear attack, the…

I'm not sure Edel knows all the details.There was a high-ranking politician in the bordello at the time so it's possible that the details of Kramer's death are classified and not even Edel was able to get some info. But I agree - there should have been more fallout.

Yeah, that was a very subtle moment showing how blurred the lines have become for him.

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