This episode moved me so much. And I don't know how it will all end, but where it seems to be going is now clear.

"Behold these Thy Servants Mikhail and Nadezhda guiding them to every good work…
This cloth signifies purity of intentions and the road the new married have to follow together."

"Aldrich Ames was an alcoholic who sold secrets for money. I think they would have spirited him out of the country same as Martha in this kind of situation."

I actually disagree. He hasn't been given a lot to do but when he has he's done it well. And I flash back to a line I think last season when his mother asks if he wants something to eat and he delivers "Yes, *pleeeze*" in a totally convincing way. A very hungry teenager, and it seems like a throwaway line but he sold…

"The positive of keeping her alive is that the Russians on the show don't just kill everybody."

I'm glad they didn't kill her but they killed the woman in New Jersey after promising her she and her baby would be cared for…

Then I think you have it. The whole season is about becoming disillusioned. This is the turning of the agents, including I suspect Stan Beeman. Everyone is become less and less a believer in their respective ideologies. Everyone is disillusioned from Kimmie to Paige to Henry to Oleg and his parents and his boss and…

I don't think it's fingerprints she wants to avoid, Contamination of herself or of 'evidence' of some other kind. Not putting her fingerprints on that evidence might be important. She doesn't know what she'll find so its a precaution.

Indeed I think just the opposite. They have big plans for Henry and have been saving him for this. I think he is or is part of the straw that breaks Philip's back and makes him rebel against the motherland. I think also he finds what Gabriel did with Mischa and that breaks him from Gabriel and the motherland.

KGB guarded the approached to the US embassy and would not hae let her approach without a US passport.

Martha was OK up until she discovered Clark was not with the US government. Everything she did was for the US and while they'd certainly be cross with her that's not prosecutable really. Help in finding the Directorate S spies would outweigh everything. But when she did find out she decided she wanted her husband more…

I dont think so. I think Kimmy likes Philip or whatever name he uses. He has been decent, he could have banged her at any time but he didn't. He talked to her he told her to love her father. He's a pot dealer but he's been a decent person to her. I don't see Kimmie as blowing the whistle at all. Now if she catches him…

Now that is a DOWNBEAT song!!! I love the album but as a birthday song, holy cow!!!! :O

O.o

Which is not saying Pasha won't suicide and thus impact Tuan, and of course PHILIP.

No way they are writing Henry off the show.

:O

I honestly thought the KGB had dropped her into the Caribbean out of that plane. She did not actually commit to the KGB at any point and most of the product Clark produced out of her was under a false flag (US flag) operation. She isn't owed a lot of respect. She is a danger to Philip and Elizabeth. Why not off her!

This show at its core is an exploration of marriage and parenting under extreme conditions. Philip reliably finds the father in him entangled in the spy in him over and over.

Yeah I think it's going to be a plot point at some point otherwise it an unneeded scene and a throwaway character. This show is so pushed for time to follow its characters and storylines there is no need to introduce new ones just to make a point that, frankly, has already been made.

I think you got it. We don't need a lot of other deaths, this one has hit home and to add in a bunch more would actually move it out of Philip's head, let him get distance from it. And this season is all about growing disaffection and disillusionment of EVERY character.