Domestic Assassin

Per Amazon Prime X-Ray (the trivia you can get sometimes when you pause), it was the Automated Case Support System, which was used to track the progress of on-going cases. Since there were no open (or closed) cases with Philip & Elizabeth named as suspects, they weren't in that system.

The only thing I can think of Nate trying to get Ted's attention is when he leaked the panic attack (resorting to getting negative attention). And Ted's refusing to acknowledge it for as long as he did only enraged him further. Ted's issues with his father kept him from confronting Nate, but that was a big mistake. IMO it came off as passive aggressive in the scene when Ted apologized to the team for hiding the truth from them. Beard was right, it's not healthy for Ted to keep it in. He needs to find a way to deal with his anger constructively instead of just suppressing it.

I love that one! "Rebecca reworks more truthful (????not sure of the next word-maybe personal????) Vegas stand-up show", which is the plot of "Hacks". Maybe they just really want that writing Emmy! ;-)

He was talking about Cindy Clawford, his late cat.

This season has 12 episodes instead of 10, so there will be 3 more this season. But I agree that the pacing has been off this year. I know that they had a 10 episode season mapped out when Apple asked them for 2 more episodes, and that they expected that the first 3 would be released together on the first week. So the original plan was that the rom-com episode where Roy comes back to coach would have aired in the second week instead of the fifth week, and yeah, that kind of threw things off IMO. And this week's episode kind of killed the momentum that had been building. I didn't hate this week's episode, but I was underwhelmed. It had some good moments, but I don't feel like I learned anything about Beard that I hadn't already figured out. FWIW I hated "After Hours" (the movie this was based on), although I haven't seen it since it came out. Maybe it just made me feel old.

The song at the beginning was a cover of the theme song done by Jeff Tweedy from Wilco. https://www.stereogum.com/2161018/jeff-tweedy-covered-the-ted-lasso-theme/music/

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Phil Dunster better be nominated next year. He was incredible in that locker room scene.

Here is an interesting interview with Nick Mohammed about Nate's storyline. I don't think it's spoilery, but it does have some hints as to where the story is going. https://www.vulture.com/article/nick-mohammed-ted-lasso-season-2-nate-interview.html

Just in case pre-season interviews are considered spoilers:

OBGYN.

RIP Nanci Griffith.

The day they called Mare about the peeping tom, he checked to see if the gun was in the shed and it was. Later that night (the night Erin was murdered), he heard a noise (probably Ryan stealing the gun), went to investigate and saw the gun was missing. Why he didn't report it missing was not addressed.

He didn't look for the gun the next morning, but several weeks/months later (a few days before telling Mare about it) he noticed it was back.

I think he was still mad about Deborah blowing off their dinner meeting. I'm kind of nervous about where this is heading actually. I really like his character.

10 episodes, the first two debuting tonight.

I really like this idea, since it's always irked me that it seemed like the writers forgot at some point that recruiting Paige was an order from the center that they couldn't refuse.

I bought Ken Cosgrove's lighter from a Mad Men props auction. I have a set of The Americans matryoshka dolls I got from eBay, and a pair of Paige's earrings that I'm not 100% sure are really from the show (but they're pretty!). For The Leftovers I bought myself a copy of the May 1972 issue of National Geographic.

It wasn't that people hadn't heard of AIDS before Rock Hudson, but (sadly) it wasn't taken as seriously as it should have been by people outside the hardest hit populations. Thinking more about it, I'm going to assume that Philip took the picture with him the last time he was at Martha's place (in the season 4 premiere), we just never saw him leave. It was only a few days after Stan's visit IIRC, and he did tell Martha they couldn't meet at her place anymore and they'd have to meet at his place. But, this is an excellent reason for me to rewatch season 4 this weekend., to see if it really was addressed at some point. I don't think they'd make such a point of showing Philip looking at it in the season premiere if they weren't going to address it.

In the season 4 premiere after "Clark" told Martha about killing Gene, Clark goes to get Martha a glass of water and looks over at the picture on the shelves next to the kitchen area. This was after Stan's visit, so we at least know it wasn't taken after that incident. I thought one of them might have taken the picture to Clark's apartment, but the one at Clark's is in a different frame. When Martha is leaving her apartment for the last time ever, it doesn't look like the the picture is in it's usual place on those shelves, but it's at a distance so I can't be positive. It does seem like it was addressed at some point, but I can't think of when.

In the Clark's Place episode, Aderholt followed Martha to Clark's apartment building. Hans called "Clark" to warn him, and we see him grab the wedding picture and the answering machine tape on his way out the door. There is a shot of Clark walking behind Aderholt's car as he's sneaking away. Presumably, that was the only unexpected place for Martha to have gone when Aderholt was following her, so they knew to check it out. How they knew which specific apartment I don't know, but it's easy enough to imagine they gave Martha's description to the landlord or asked about tenants that didn't seem to live there full time. I remember wondering if they were going to touch on AIDS, but the hysteria didn't really hit until the mid-80's after Rock Hudson's diagnosis. I remember in The Big Chill (which came out in 1983, the year this episode is set in) a character joking about knowing how her husband would never cheat because of fear of herpes. AIDS just wasn't as much in the consciousness until later in the decade. ETA: I just remembered the wedding photo in Martha's apartment, which I assume is the one you meant. I don't know where that one went.

I hoped to find it on You Tube, but it's not there (although there are a few deleted scenes from other seasons on You Tube). It's a good scene. It's from the Walter Taffet episode and it's their first meeting, in a warehouse. He tells her that he was on his way home to South Africa but Moscow sent him to the US first. He says that Moscow spoiled him with food every day, clean water and a bed and says he's gotten soft, and Elizabeth says she doubts that and that they gave him the best training available, and she's basically beaming with pride. But he says that they made sure he remembered his place, and that on the streets in Moscow they called him Mowgli. He asks if that surprised her, and when she says yes he says it surprised him too. When he first got to Moscow they gave him classes every day in Lenin and Marx, but it's no workers paradise, and Elizabeth says it's not perfect, but she looks shaken. And that's basically the end of the scene.

It's a deleted scene on the season 3 DVD. They called him Mowgli.

Martha made the connection to Stan that the weekend of the murders was the same weekend as the meeting of scientists that Stan was looking into. Stan pulled all the evidence of the murders including what was in their hotel room. He and Gaad were looking it over when they found the briefcase with the hidden compartments and realized it was from a spy agency.

In the pilot, Perry received a letter from the court marked Third Notice. This is probably what that was. It was established that the church ran an adoption service.