pavlovsbell

I agree with this. Tuan was referencing Marxist and Maoist ideology with "self-criticism" and "petty bourgeois" (petite bourgeoisie as opposed to the proletariat revolutionary). He's telling Philip and Elizabeth that they are not being good revolutionaries/soldiers. That's why he admitted to his own arguably "petty bourgeois" failing in his self-criticism and accused Philip and Elizabeth of doing worse, because they placed their personal concerns over the mission, in his opinion.

Tuan and Philip were not watching Cranes (the Russian song). They were watching The Fly (1958). I don't know if the film about a man who turns into a monster triggered Philip's flashback, or if it was the combination of Tim's diary and Philip feeling like he doesn't know his children, especially Henry. The music started when Philip arrived at the Ekert house, so I think it's something that was weighing on him before, hence his detachment with Tuan. But the monster aspect and the idea of change set up the theme of the episode. I thought Philip remembering a happy time with his father played into his reluctance to kill Natalie. His father did horrible things and presumably killed Soviet prisoners, but he loved his family. Philip does terrible things but wants to change. If you can't change and leave the past behind and become a better person, then what's the point? Should you be held accountable for following orders or doing things that you would never do now, is the thing I think Philip was asking Elizabeth, and that's all related to his flashbacks. I'm still super interested in Philip's flashbacks, and I really want to know about his father's death and what happened to his brother. But I agree with the general sentiment about Tuan. I've been extremely interested in him and his story, but he and the Morozov family have been used almost exclusively as lenses for Philip and Elizabeth. They don't jump off the screen as interesting characters unto themselves like William, which is disappointing.

I did a search incorporating psychiatry because that is Elizabeth's new mission, and it returned results related to soviet psychiatric incarceration of political prisoners (like Mischa). Coincidence or Gabriel leaving breadcrumbs? Or it could easily turn out to be something else entirely. https://www.csce.gov/sites/helsinkicommission.house.gov/files/Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Commission_to_Investigate_the_Use_of_Psychiatry_for_Political_Purposes http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/pn.45.22.psychnews_45_22_023

Elizabeth ate the carob that had fallen in the bag, not any of the pieces that fell on the floor. You can see them in the bag before she bends down.

I think that is most likely, because that conversation was about having enough of a team to move forward with William, and the other people Philip listed were Hans and "the older man" (presumably Norm). Then Marilyn appeared in the last two episodes of Season 4.

Both Marilyn and Norm were in Season 4 as part of Philip's team when he met with William. Once, she crossed the road, and in the finale, she was walking and removed her headscarf.