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I'm wondering if he is allowed to do anything he wants with the agency. Was the expansion approved or does he have a free hand? If not, why did he expand? If it's only a cover and Centre can hand out money, why even invest in expansion? If it just needs to function as cover, it doesn't have to boom, does it? Do they have to appear so successful? They really just have to appear well off enough to maintain their lifestyle so they don't bring attention to themselves. Want to bring attention to them...go bankrupt. They can't let that happen.

I like to just enjoy TV. I suspend disbelief because it's entertainment. Even though I knew Carrie would get her target, I was on the edge of my seat. I really loved this episode. It flew by. But, like I said, I can just sit back and enjoy even with the impossibilities.

I very often meet people on the job in hard hat and safety glasses. Sometimes that is the only way I ever see them. I was approached while shopping and wondered who in the world was this guy calling me by name? It took me a few seconds because although I'd been with him many times before, I just had never seen him without a hard hat and safety glasses. It was only a fleeting few seconds that I didn't recognize him but I can see how she could pass by in a wig and not be noticed if you associate someone in another way.

It would seem more likely to me that they want them found so as to ship them back and interrogate them for what they gave up. Kind of like Nina and the engineer.

Just to be clear, I didn't mean it was an easy job. I meant they were usually available and pretty easy to get if your WPM were decent.

LOL. My mom and dad preached the "don't take typing or bookkeeping to me" way back in my junior high days. Typing jobs were so easy to get that pushy parents were afraid we would use it as a fallback position. In high school I was struggling to find an elective that would interest me so I did succumb to bookkeeping because at least I could enjoy the math. (Yes, I'm a female that does math.) By then I knew I was shooting for an engineering college so I didn't see it hurting me. Almost all my female friends married and got part time jobs (secretaries/receptionists/retail/beauticians) or stayed single and got secretary/receptionist/retail/beautician jobs. Some of us went to college and became teachers, chemists, etc. My best friend of 60 years, who I still see almost weekly wound up at the CIA in DC. To this day she has never told me what she did. But, yeah, in those days if you took typing it was a way into those jobs and a good typist was always in demand. I'm not knocking it. It's all in what we want. I'll soon be 67 and I'm old enough to know...do what makes you happy. That is so important. Of all my friends and acquaintances in high school I was the only female (that I know of) to go into engineering. Not long after I graduated more opportunities and doors opened to females that had been maybe not closed, but not realistic before. An age of enlightenment, so to speak. For female college material at that time, Paige is so dumb.

When Martina Navratilova defected from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1975 it was a huge embarrassment to them. I remember watching her news conference and thinking "Wow! This is big." I was 24 and a political junkie so I noticed. But the funny thing was young people everywhere were excited and talking about it. Friends who I thought didn't give a fig about politics were talking about it. As I think back, I see now that we had all been through the Cuban Missile Crisis so we thought it was "kickass". Plus, pro tennis was in a heyday of it's own with Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors. It was a BIG deal. So, yes. They don't want that national hockey player becoming a propaganda tool.

This. I'm just looking to be entertained and unwind. I have to strain my brain at the office so I really don't need to delve into the nuances. If I really found it that much of a problem I would have quit watching early on when Elizabeth's lip mole never got included in a description.

I didn't need CC to understand they were incapacitated by her shooting. I just assumed gun with silencer. Does the how matter? I'm just glad she wasn't wiping them all out with choke holds. What I wondered about was the shrink-wrap around the pallets. I thought those gigantic rolls of shrink-wrap were a relatively recent design. Although it was so dark, I'm not sure that's what I saw.

Just an awesome show.

I'm in season (series) 15 and I'm finally used to the cousin Barnaby. I still like the show but I'm a bit put off by now with Ben being the butt of seemingly "witty" jokes. He comes up with possible motives and is shot down every time. He needs to be given a break. How could he make DS if he is a complete idiot? I'm tired of him always being the stooge. On another note, I love Sykes. The episode I watched tonight was about horror movies. The Barnabys were watching one that was related to the ongoing investigation. Sikes was on her lap with his head beneath a pillow. She said, "Ok, Sikes, that scary scene is over," and he pops his head up. Just cute.

I love this series.

Welliver IS Harry Bosch. I love Michael Connelly's Bosch and the series gets Bosch right.

I remember there was the one story about the (I think) 6 year old boy who was taken away from his (unfit) mother. When she was found and Lisa met with her it was at what appeared to be a diner. They didn't meet with her in a house and she looked like she had led a very hard life. I'm assuming they weren't comfortable showing her home on camera. In some cases perhaps people are living with relatives or friends who don't want their home shown.

I believe the officer did say he, himself, had been tazed.

I have a friend whose aunt was named Yvonne. The parents thought it was a beautiful name, so they named her Yvonne...drum roll...pronounced "Yuh'-von". No, they were not being cute or trendy back in the 40s when she was born. They honestly didn't know any better. And yes, even years later as they got a clue, it never changed even with the accent on the wrong syllable. She was Yuh'-von to the day she died a few years ago. And also I'm in agreement with the poster above. If you want to make a Ronnie or Billy or Jackie sound more important, you are going to "adult" it. Roseanne wanted the woman to respect and fear Jackie so she puffed her up. My brother-in- law is Billy Lee on his birth certificate. Every time he needs to fill out important papers they question it.

Agreed. Now that I know it was a family cruise.

This got me wondering. Maybe the client had a company that promoted cruises...like say, to winners of contests. Maybe Phillip wasn't just losing "a" family cruise. Maybe this was a very big client that meant multiple cruises. I don't remember the conversation. Family might have been specifically mentioned. Anybody know? Obviously, Phillip is seeing a decline in business, but I just don't see him spiraling downward over losing a client with one family cruise a year. But, I guess, the purpose really was to emphasize the decline in business in general.

Also good point that Henry may not be a huge standout in his school. I sort of assumed it was true as have some other posters, but no, we don't know that. But we did have the phone conversation where he tells Phillip about his heroics during a game, unless he was just exaggerating, of course.

There was no real audit. Because of his position in the warehouse he was targeted and given the story that it was an audit and that it was secret. Elizabeth was just using his info so when she, or another operative, breaks in to steal the radiation thingamajig, they will know where it is and what the obstacles are. The fact that the girlfriend was in security he just assumed she would know and the chances were that he would blab. That's why she killed him. (or she had planned to kill him all along. I don't think so or she would have had a better plan).

The girlfriend, I thought the name was Teresa, didn't know. The fear was that he would mention it and her being in security she would jump on that like a rat on cheese. I think he was cast as big for the purpose of Elizabeth facing the reality that she is older and to make her wonder just how long she can do this. There was concern on her face for a few seconds that she couldn't physically do it.

They can't have leftover Russian food in the privacy of their own fridge but she can carry it in her purse across town? And, besides that, who would trust the container not to leak all over the inside of her purse? It's 1987 and despite all the hoopla at Tupperware parties, they did leak if carried on their side, especially if they had been used a lot.

Ridiculous. How would a single person ever be able to adopt? Besides, no one can make that promise.

Even though I know some animal rescue groups have crazy rules, denying Jackie the dog for that reason was just ridiculous. It's not like she is 90 and has dementia. I adopted my rescue 8 years ago. I was presented with a 5 page contract with questions that felt like a colonoscopy. It really did invade my privacy. I refused to answer 5 of their questions and wouldn't sign it. A friend of mine actually had fostered my dog and I asked her to put in a good word for me. On her word, they let me have my 80 lb mutt. So, even though the rules are there to protect the animal, I think some of the restrictions are overboard. I know there must be good people out there who don't want to jump through the hoops and are denied a dog or cat, some for good reasons. But it's a shame to think of them missing out on a forever home because of paper work. My Roxy is the sweetest and most gentle creature I've ever known. Yes, Becky's tattoo looked terrible. But I'm a tattoo hater and old-fashioned. The best scene was Dan really putting his foot down about Roseanne's interference with Becky. Even though it was delivered like an order, Roseanne knew he was right. Dan waiting for Roseanne to explode was hilarious.

I think we are getting what we want. Maggie gets custody and Carrie gets to run around as a crazy but sucessful asset. All we'll see is fake phone calls and a mention here and there. On top of everything else that's been mentioned, "not Oleg" would never have just sat down for a casual conversation with Dante. This should have been an in and out job. (Well except for the fact that he shouldn't have gotten in at all.) Thank you. I must have just noticed "CIA". I should have paused to read it.