Executive Orders, Tom Clancy. Part of the Jack Ryan series.

And oh look, we just saw the seeds of Philip and Elizabeth moving apart again. How convenient!

It feels kind of in-character for Arkady, oddly enough. He's a decent guy.

I think she knew it was a possibility, but it's easy to convince yourself that the worst possibility might not be true, maybe it's not *that* bad.

They've been setting her up to suicide for basically the entire existence of the show. It would be an amazing turn if she turned herself in, confessed and went to prison instead.

There was a line I remember from a book when I was a kid that I really liked. It was about the Secret Service getting an inkling that one of their own was a sleeper agent, so they start looking into his life. "The tradecraft was perfect. It's just that when you start looking for it, it looks like tradecraft."

I mean, for some values of "get out of it." Her prison sentence would be measured in decades regardless.

See, I disagree. I think Philip knows *exactly* what he's getting into. He knows, and Gabriel knows, and they know that each other know (and Nina got about two seconds to process after finding out): the moment they realize they can't handle you, you're a liability and not an asset.

And Philip darn well knows that, which is why this whole "I'm getting sick of this game" storyline is going to be so good. He knows full well that there are only two ways out of this business: Defection and death. And the former can lead to the latter, as he personally saw to in the opening episode of the show.

The Rezidentura is also made up of people who are here legally. They make up the Russian embassy and their staff, and everybody on both sides knows that a very high percentage of them are spies. It's a mutual "We'll let some of your guys in, you let some of ours into your country, but no spying *wink wink*"…

And don't forget, the only reason things got this far with Martha is because they pressured Philip into getting her to put that bug in Gaad's office. He was content to have meetings with her once in awhile to see what FBI Counterintelligence was thinking, but the Center pushed for more. They asked him to pull off the…