Or the Belgians. Let me ask you, old boy, do you like having hands?

Wait wait wait, guys hang on….I just forgot what side I'm really on right now again…

U Wot M8?!

Yeah in the scheme of things, '300' is actually probably closer to the top than it is to the bottom.

Nonsense!!! The neoclassical look of D.C. long predates the Columbian exposition. Go look up a picture of the Capitol building from, say, the 1840s (when they still had the Romanesque dome, before the current monster was built). Remember that the concept for the city was developed by a Frenchman and that classicism…

B from me

I feel like that would be too inelegant for him. Plus we already had a minor rape-motivation plot on this show and that would be uncharacteristically lazy writing.

So the CIA should be running gay honeypots in Russia these days then, is what you're saying?

*snif* and Bob 2. He would have loved this so much!!

Franzen is absolutely my favorite example of modern authors who are inexplicably popular and well-regarded. I was *furious* by the time I'd finished Freedom; these characters were ostensibly supposed to be sympathetic but they were all absolutely terrible (with the possible exception of the son). Seriously, none of…

Any guesses as to what the secret they recovered at that handoff was? My thought is that it's got to do with the secret technology the USA developed for machining very precise warship screws (propellers) that would operate at higher speeds without cavitating (and thereby making noise). IIRC that was an actual…

He's turning tricks for that sweet, sweet Lars von Trier money!

A.

No! you'll attract Tarkovsky's AD!

he could have kept on going out the door. Not gonna get any kind of useful description out of that kid. But, you know, no loose ends I guess.

So stop being on their side. Phillip wasted that kid in the restaurant; ultimately, I want them to lose. It's like Walter White, he was the protagonist but he was still a monster.

It was also common for agents to carry a .38 SPL round in their Model 13s, even though the gun could obviously handle .357. The standard load of the day was the "Chicago load" (also called the FBI load) which was a 158grain lead semi-wadcutter hollowpoint (the fixed k-frame revolver sights are designed to be spot-on…

The Rust Cohle school of justice!

Yeah I don't think there was a Soviet-era Illegals program (not that has been revealed anyway) in the US. The ones they busted a couple years ago (the Chapman ring) were post-Cold war. They were totally inept though.

Do you think they'd send someone who wasn't a Great Russian on one of these gigs? I suspect not, for just such reasons. You never know if he's gonna have second thoughts because of the time they sent Grandma and Grandpa to farm frozen mud in Siberia.