If you want to stay focused here in the comments, when you start thinking about your dogs, just rub your thumb slowly against your index finger and think of Mother Russia.

So much for her being welcomed like a hero, and taken care of!

Yes.

Transparent *grand* piano.

The only thing that, for me, doesn't track with this, is the violence that Morgan displayed in killing him. I mean killing him is one thing, but do you really think Richard signed up to be slowly and painfully beaten to death?

He was so legitimately upset, I wondered if he isn't a one-off character.

There was a child's backpack (his daughter's) in the grave Richard had been digging. It's just a pun on the famous book title.

I thought they telegraphed hard that the father was ready to pump him for info about the investigation, which is why Oleg rushed past him and shouted for Mama to bring the food.

They do, but it's made out of cardboard boxes, and pulled along the track with a rope by three guys with bad teeth.

Yes. Yes, you are.

Holy crap! Carrie Coon is the only one I recognized there. Can't wait for Fargo!

I wonder if it's about complete containment versus zillions of tiny particulate that would have to be accounted for at every step of the burning process (the surface on which they burned him, the air in the room, the pipes that feed the gas to the crematorium, wherever ash flew, etc. etc.). With burning there's a…

You're not the only one! I wondered how Mischa was managing to impersonate a high school student with no parents to show up for parent/teacher conferences. I blame the previouslies.

Well, this IS Carrie "flying-by-the-seat-of-her-pants" Mathison we're talking about! I do like the implication — which is borne out in real life situations, too — that these things with CPS can happen SO fast, and are SO unilateral, that even an educated, upper-class (or at least upper-middle-class), powerful white…

Yeah, the comments thread for an episode is the real star of the show here at AV Club, especially in recent years.

Or as Aaron suggested, the reviewer is talking about something that will likely happen in a future episode. Ugh, just ugh. That was really *so* unclear.

Wow, badly expressed, then. I was gnawing my nails reading through every single comment to get some insight on the scene I somehow missed! Thanks for the clarification.

Whoa, you're replying to things that aren't there. I didn't say the rulings were permanent, or that CPS was being unfair, or have *any* opinion on the child custody plot whatsoever. I was simply replying to your assertion that Carrie should have brought someone to testify about how she functioned well despite being…

It's an interesting thought, but didn't Amir *break in*? I don't still have it on my DVR so I can't check, but that's my recollection. (Although technically I guess he could still do that if he were working for the torturers, but had been left to guard the door.)

So at least there’s a Carrie and Saul scene, and those have been in awfully short supply since season four.