Season 5, episode 12, minute 46: "Even if he dies, Evgenia will leave Alexei and go back to the Soviet Union."

Well, it's interesting that we're coming down on both sides of the arguments as the characters in the show. I guess this proves the writing is pretty realistic.

Elizabeth recently had to give Evgenia a lecture about women telling men about how things have to be, if the women know best.

Of course Evgenia wouldn't stay in the same country as the man who caused her child's death.

Of course when you're dealing with real people you never know with 100% certainty exactly what they're going to do. You have to use good judgement which I think Tuan did.

I don't think you really have any authority to tell me what "this show is about."

Oh okay cool. Thanks. I watch these episodes late at night when they come out and this past season has been so boring that I literally fall asleep halfway through them and I have to try to figure out where I was the next day. I might have missed a few things.

I can't remember his exact reasoning (re: why the plan would work if Pacha died) but he thought of it and IMO had a convincing explanation for why it would still work. Maybe the wife would blame the husband for Pasha's death and want to go back home.

But as he pointed out to P&E, there was no way for it to go wrong. As he explained, even if Pacha died, his plan would still work. It was a no-brainer, slam-dunk plan where he considered all eventualities. Dude nailed it. He's basically Philip or Elizabeth from season 1. I'd watch a spinoff about Tuan.

I guess I wrote this post in reply to all the people who are saying "this show isn't really about action, if you think it's boring, you just don't get it" … the show has ALWAYS been full of action and suspense until this season 5 nose dive. Anybody who thinks the show ISN'T about action might need to revisit previous…

As P&E said, he wasn't wrong to point that out. It's not his job to take into account their other obligations, especially when he doesn't even know what their other obligations are.

It's not clear to me what the chain of command was in the relationship. Was Tuan running the mission or were P&E? Did Tuan have the authority to make a strategic decision like that? It's not clear to me that he didn't.

What if you like smart action?

Blast from the past: season 1 ended with a huge, riveting, nail-biting car chase and a cliffhanger with Elizabeth being SHOT and potentially mortally wounded.

Sorry guys but I'm on Team Tuan. These people are military officers and they're sent here to carry out military missions. People actually DIE on this show all the time, who gives a s**t if some mopey Russian teenager cuts his wrists a little? Tuan came up with a good plan, it was well-executed, and it had the desired…

The agent's interest was piqued a little when he saw the family walking to the house so urgently. His spidey-sense must be going off, what are the odds that the family would march over to the house with that level of determination on the same night that something bad happens to Pacha…

Hahaha. Every time I saw her practicing that I was mystified. What martial art has you do that?!

So what happened with the Oleg sub-plot? Calling it a "plot" seems disingenuous since nothing of significance happened at all to any of those characters. At all.

Go re-watch season one. Almost every episode had some kind of karate fight or chase scene or something. This last season has been hopelessly dull.

Did anybody else think it's stupid for Philip to tell Henry that he can't go to the boarding school? I mean, let him go to the school, until they have to leave. If Henry doesn't go to the boarding school then he'll just start a new year at his regular school and they'll have to yank him out of THAT. It's not like…