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mnementh

I wonder if "This is our last dance" is an apt description for the Jennings. Will everything crumble from here on out?

Jackskeleton

I'm still surprised Martha has survived this long. But yeah, it really does sound like something bad is coming for them.

PhantomStranger

I think the question will become whether Elizabeth and Philip would abandon their children if exposed to the U.S. government? Allow Paige and Henry to become orphans or whatever, allowing them to remain normal Americans. It's the solution the show has avoided discussing whenever exposure has been brought up before. I could see Elizabeth and Philip deciding to remain Soviet agents in that scenario, leaving their children for good.

rocket1312

It certainly does seem like the walls are really starting to close in on them. I know the show has at least one and maybe even two more seasons, but the pieces appear to be moving into place for the endgame. Both the Martha and Pastor Tim situations are ones that I don't think they can run away from at this point. It's not a matter of if they will fall apart, but rather a matter of when.

Hmmm. Interesting. Both children do have surrogate families of sorts at this point.

DWilson

Everything Clark said about Martha in the episode seemed to give a reason to kill her.

uteotw

This is true. (And it was nice of Elizabeth to notice his sadness and comfort him.) But man, if another person from that office dies, and not long after they started tailing her, but will really ratchet up the heat.

Their play of Pastor Tim was pretty brilliant.

I just love how they went from telling Paige to totally backpeddling ("Honey, we don't hurt people. We help people.")

RoyalTea

Panoply does a weekly podcast about this show (rss link). Noah Emmerich Stan directed this episode. He said the script for the final scene said "Philip and Elizabeth fuck hard"

mcnabb

Loved the ending montage of 'Under Pressure' as they always know the right 80's song to sum up the theme of the Episode.

I guess with Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys being a couple, they could go full bore on the last scene between them to make it realistic in bed.

serenity450

Elizabeth, maybe, but not Phillip.

coli

Loved the fake El Salvadorian Priest to fool Pastor Tim and his wife.

Thrush

Clark obviously cares for her but that seems to be the only solution at this point. Hes fooling himself if he thinks there is a clean way out of this for her. They talked about getting her and other assets out of the country before. But I think thats what they tell Clark and Elizabeth to make them feel better. Once they are no longer useful why spend precious resources on them?

Superman07

Best part about that was Elizabeth's delivery when Philip asked her if she thought the guy was a real priest.

The amount of layers in this show. The tone is obviously completely different, but season 2 of Chuck excelled when the themes of the spy mission mirrored the personal dilemas of Chuck. This episode demonstrated why the same approach works so well for the American's too. Consider:

1) Philip telling Paige she needs to get close to pastor Tim vs Elizabeth telling Philip he has to get close to Stan.
2) Philip spinning at the thought of the Martha situation vs Olegg dealing with the fallout from Nina (you can tell he's pissed at his country!)
3) Paige vs Martha dealing with the consequences of their trapped situation (the shot framing both of them awake at night was essentially identical)

Decker

I'm really getting a kick out of having all these fun scenes with Elizabeth and the Korean lady. They have this great rapport and still we have NO IDEA what Elizabeth is up to. It's completely different than every other mission The Jennings have done in the run of the show. There's got to be a reason they're telling the story this way and I'm dying to find out what it is...

Decker

His name is Phillip. Clark is an alias.

PhantomStranger

Phillip is an alias as well. He's just lived in that identity longer.

Decker

Ah, there's the key word : Identity. Phillip is his identity now, it's what his wife, his closest friends and his handlers call him. To say "Phillip" is an alias is like saying Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul Jabber are aliases.
That picture on the top of the page is Phillip and Elizabeth, not Clark and Elizabeth.

creekdipper

His real name is Kal-El.