1. I don't share my banking information with you because there's no reason to share it, and plenty of reason not to share it. But I have shared my banking information with some members of my family, and they've shared their banking information with me; we trust each other, and it was useful to do so.

Yeah, maybe. Although "I think I can take them" is a bit different than "I think I can take them without heavy casualties to the people I'm supposed to be protecting"

Okay, wait…

Ummm - you get the lectures BECAUSE you were lying. Being honest tends to pre-empt "stop lying to me" lectures…

Iris has shown flashes of investigative ability, but it hasn't really been fleshed out yet. I figure we can wait a few episodes before we decide for sure that she has no other skills.

I thought future Barry was just supposed to be in charge of one division or something, but I could be wrong. But either way, Joe could be promoted first, then Barry 10 years later. I mean, Joe is significantly older than Barry.

The kidnapping presumably happened at night, and who knows how high up it was. I wouldn't assume that someone would see it.

Planet bomb - never a good solution, even if you survive it. Because long term? You're pretty much guaranteed to not survive it.

She had reason to be suspicious. She did NOT have reason to assassinate someone she knew nothing about during truce talks with the organization that saved her daughter's life (and whatsisname, Electricity Boy). Declaring war on an international spy agency that's only helped you so far is not a good first move.

But that's just it. Gordon was believing her, then she had a monologue while standing in front of a mirror where she basically admitted to having a plot. Only she didn't.

Unless Raina is feeding Jaiying a lot of intel off-screen, all she would know is that SHIELD is going to blow the crap out of Afterlife, and what Skye told her.

If only she hadn't had that monologue where she talks to the mirror (with Gordon standing right there) that sounds basically like "Man, I duped those guys"

I definitely got some impression of that, although given how little we know of Bell, and the fact that cops are often shown as overreacting to IA, I was a bit unsure

I'm like 95% sure that they specifically mentioned her being a terrible liar, and showed examples of it.

She's been shown many times to be a bad liar, and they even specifically mention it. But then she's a good liar for the Nite-Nite gun, and then a bad liar again, and then a somewhat bad liar, but infiltrating Hydra

I don't think it's subterfuge in and of itself - it's subterfuge aimed at other police officers, without any probable cause established first. There's a difference between "I have reason to suspect you of doing something particularly bad, so I'm going undercover to find out" and "I'm going to always be undercover,…

It sounded bad, but as the conversation went on, it seemed that his issue wasn't with IA, but with someone being sneaky about working with IA. As Bell explained, he had absolutely no problem turning in the guy he was working with who was dirty, but he didn't use subterfuge to find it. He certainly wasn't advocating…

But that's kinda my point - her change is the scariest because it was rather abrupt, and because it was so different from what we knew about her before. It's been a few episodes since her change (although I'm not sure how long that translates to), but when the changes happened, they were sudden.

People often have relationships where someone is like a mom or dad to them, without ever even living together.

Yeah, I totally understand how it resonates, and like I said, I really did think about this angle. And the show's been far from perfect in how it treats its female characters. I'm just saying that I agree with Racj - a guy who's so ridiculously controlling of everyone around him doing something like this is in…