I haven't been watching Flashpoint but I'll probably try to catch it when I have more time. But I think it's SOP to put any police who've been involved in an officer-involved shooting on some sort of paid leave pending investigation.

It did belong to him. That was the car in the parking lot of the supermarket. They have at least two cars. The military gave him a generous re-enlistment package so he can shill for them; that may be where he got the money to buy the other car.

Kumagoro: I think they knew that because that space is reserved for the Presidential helicopter, at least according to Saul, if I recall correctly. And it's a DC area airport and the President often uses Marine One to get around the mid-Atlantic area, so it's plausible that he would use this space at the airport.

Phodreaw: Right, and I acknowledged that an Islamist radical would not see civilians as innocent, but rather as guilty and deserving of whatever Nazir does to them. But again, that's not really indicative of any inherent moral ambiguity in Nazir. He doesn't seem like a terribly conflicted character—instead, he is…

"I must be a sucker for small children"—Jerry Sandusky

I can't tell you, or I'd have to kill you. Seriously, stuff like this isn't publicly disclosed.

True, but sometimes, you just want to see an Evil Russian Man (TM) end up with a fireplace poker in his abdomen. Filet mignon is good, but so is mac and cheese at times.

Why should there be moral ambiguity? Either he's fighting for a just cause with appropriate means (which include deliberately killing civilians, including children—according to Saul, he brutally killed a colleague's children when the colleague was captured), which is one view to take, or he's fighting for a just or at…

Or he knew the US didn't know about this location until he told them, and so he was conveniently not present when the US struck. Remember, the man may have moles in the CIA, and the CIA carried out this drone strike, so he could have known not to be there when it was going to occur.

They're just air traffic control signs with the one after the branch name denoting that the President is on the particular aircraft. For example, when Bush flew onto the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 to deliver that infamous speech, the Navy aircraft was Navy One. If I recall correctly, the helicopter Nixon flew…

No, I agree. I'm trying to rationalize the plot decisions because I like the show so much, but it's definitely frustrating me. I have a feeling of impending doom with this show.

More precisely, the CIA can't operate armed forces on US soil. The CIA has extensive paramilitary assets (part of the Special Activities Division) in war zones (e.g. Johnny Micheal Spann, the first post-9/11 KIA in the war on terror.)

Post-war Iraq wasn't exactly starved of young kids without fathers (or maybe even mothers)—he could have "adopted" Isa for this plan. If I recall correctly, Saul said something to the captured AQ torturer about another terrorist named Yasser Akro. After capture by MI6, Abu Nazir killed his brother, parents, wives, and…

I was about to say that he intentionally circulated false intelligence after reading your first paragraph…d'oh. But yeah, we know he's not above doing leaking information to Americans to get them to do what he wants. He sacrificed 13 or something fighters (which is significant tactically—Al Qaeda isn't exactly a…

Barely.

I agree that the show's explanation is thin, but to its credit, it established that Brody was not really a gung-ho guy before his capture. At the BBQ they had at Brody's house, one of the Marines reminded Brody that he was reluctant about going to Iraq. Also, 5 years of brutal torture may break some men and cause them…

It didn't look like an M40, which is the standard USMC sniper rifle that Walker would probably have been most proficient with. It also didn't look like an M24, the Army rifle. My guess, based on my recollection, is that it's the TAC-50, which holds the record for the longest kill (at a distance longer than the one…

As I and others have speculated, we don't know for certain whether the US or Abu Nazir caused the explosion. Abu Nazir wants Brody to think it was the US.

Agreed. Some people clearly liked it, but I rolled my eyes.

Well, Carrie saying "you live for this shit" (presumably, field work) plays into this idea, doesn't it?