No, I thought Elizabeth couldn’t see her face either. Then when she walked past I thought we’d see Paige’s face when the body rolled over, without Elizabeth even realizing it.

I think Phil and Liz are much closer now after that short phone call. Having the full resources of the US government directly after them should create some solidarity between the two.

I think Alice In Chains’ “Man in the Box” would be perfect for that scene if it’s in ‘90 or ‘91.

Tony had to be thinking, “why couldn’t someone have capped Paulie’s annoying ass instead of Sylvio?” I like to think Paulie maniacally cackling at “Three’s Company” reruns downstairs woke up Tony at least once that night.

Exactly! Her mannerisms sold her age just as much as her looks.

0.5. Elizabeth gets torn nearly in half by gunfire, then is Robocopped together with Mail Robot, creating an unstoppable killing machine that saves the rest of her family.

There was like four great scenes of two people talking in a row! In addition to that one, Costa Ronin was incredible explaining to Stan why he was there, probably the best scene Kerri Russell and Holly Taylor have done together, and the gradual realization by Philip that he was already being watched while the priest…

Am I the only person who started yelling “no no no!” when Elizabeth shot the assassin and only saw an obvious blonde wig, thinking she just killed her own daughter? Obviously it doesn’t make sense when I think about it now because Paige hasn’t been trained for that. But at the time my gut was telling me Claudia sent…

I’m a smoker and I haven’t noticed that. But that could be because my eyes are always darting everywhere around her since they’ve ramped up the tension so much over the last month and a half that I always think someone is gonna come out of nowhere and get her.

I don’t know if that was CGI or makeup, but Kerri Russell looked just like Felicity in those flashbacks. Either Special Effects or Makeup did a hell of a job making her look like herself nearly 20 years ago.

Hahaha! The cool in quotes puts that one over the top.

The bullet lodged in Harvests stomach had a lot to do with that. So while I overstated the effectiveness of cyanide, it still seems less painful than suffering for hours from a gutshot, or being choked to death with a paint brush. Just thinking about that scene almost sets off my gag reflex.

That’s right. That stuff does pop up in the news every once in a while.

And I don’t know if this was mentioned already, but it also showed how killing is Elizabeth’s art form and what she’s good at. Her figurative brush is usually a gun or a knife or her bare hands, but this time she used an actual brush.

In a way, you can equate quickness with painlessness since you don’t have time to suffer much.

And you’re totally right about us TV viewers overrating the ease of causing painless deaths. Gunshot wounds come to mind, and especially stabbings. You ram a hunting knife in someone’s stomach, they’re not just gonna…

I’ll be damned. I figured a country that had the ability to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles could have come up with a pill a little less barbaric than that to kill their own agents. Did the USA have anything better at the time?

Did a qualified doctor perform the autopsies though? Because according to the…

Oh yeah, it wouldn’t have made sense at all for Elizabeth to do anything at that time. It was definitely a visceral feeling for me. The show has done such a great job of maintaining tension down the stretch this season, I’m expecting someone to get murdered or arrested in just about every scene.

Did they ever specifically say it was cyanide? I can’t remember. I just know they told her she couldn’t get caught and to take that if she did.

I agree with the A-. If you use “The Great Patriotic War” from this season (possibly the best episode the show has done so far) as a comparison, this definitely rates a half letter grade below that one. Which is still pretty high praise.

Yeah, she’s probably a little more wary since Elizabeth beat her to within an inch of her life. Liz might want to make that her last visit.