I'm sitting here watching this episode now and Frank's dialogue is off-the-charts bad. No actor could pull this shit off. Not just his dialogue, either. Everything is a kooky quip or a philosophical double entendre that the characters have to try to pass off as casual, normal responses to each other. Only an English…

I imagine they would have known it was building up to the Spy Kids reveal at the end. My feeling all through the season was that Claudia was the killer but she did it for reasons that she felt really bad about. The story about her having a boyfriend just sounded so implausible to me that I thought she was hiding…

I could see that storyline still being setting up without Jared being the actual killer, though. I'm not saying this to argue with you, just agreeing with the one or two people here who thought the Jared twist seemed kind of shoehorned in.

I love that song but it's not a deep cut. The video is pretty iconic — I'd put it in the top ten of eighties videos people remember.

No, if Gaad's Arkady plot had been successful Nina would have been extricated. It was when that went to hell (mostly due to Stan) that her fate was sealed.

If Stan hadn't reacted so emotionally to that one dude getting killed in Season 1 Nina would have been exfiltrated and be enjoying life in the USA.

I think we were supposed to think he was just a normal teenager who'd been hoodwinked by the KGB into thinking this hot older woman was desperately in love with him. If he was supposed to come across as a sociopath it wouldn't have been poignant when he died and there wouldn't have been any ramifications for P&E…

I believe that people are born gay but I don't buy that people are born liars.

There was no reason for him to be acting at all. He didn't know anyone was watching him. It just doesn't make sense.

So do you think the showrunners themselves were originally torn among George, Claudia, and Kate for the killer? That's what I think. Odd clues that went nowhere were dropped for each of those characters. Then suddenly Jared, whom we'd all forgotten, was suddenly all twitchy and suspicious-acting in episode ten. I…

Same.

Stan put Nina in the hands of those Soviets to begin with by recruiting her through blackmail. If there are any ethics in this spying game his ethical "job" was to make sure she could be extricated when the time was right. By allowing himself to fall in love with her he rendered himself incapable of doing that job…

You make it sound like she didn't go to Vassili because she preferred working with the FBI. She didn't go to Vassili because Stan told her she would be sent back to Moscow and tried for treason if she told Vassili. So her "flipping back" to the KGB was a brave and principled thing to do because she had no idea if…

Why would she have done that up to this point? Clarke has given her no reason to doubt who he is.

Centre knew about it but didn't tell Claudia; she said she didn't know about it and Elizabeth said she believed her. Claudia has been fired anyway, for all intents and purposes. She was working on her own. Now, why Centre gave Kate the job of handling P and E I don't understand.

I've been wondering about that this whole season, though. Wondering why a plan like this wouldn't have been in place from the get-go. Hardline communism doesn't believe in bourgeois concepts like "the family", so why wouldn't the idea be for the parents to be slowly recruiting the kids from the time they are born?…

I felt like that was Stan's FBI mind picking that up. He's been distracted by Nina and his marital problems but in the end he can't completely shut those skills off.

Plus, she now hates the cops.

P&E do the work of at least three different kinds of spies on this show so it makes sense that they assume Paige would too. In reality she would just need to get some kind of CIA job and be willing to pass along information. I mean, isn't that what Claudia said the plan was?

The only way for Larrick to end his involvement with the KGB was to turn himself in. Killing P and E wouldn't have got the KGB off his back. Also, turning them in would potentially hurt the KGB more than killling them could. He probably didn't know what to do with Jared yet, was waiting to get P and E in the trunk…