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Half of the Mole’s job is made easy by other contestants sabotaging the missions to make others vote for them as the mole. Just like the auction, Sean didn’t have to do much except say he was going to bid. He could have bid $1,000 but he know someone would bid huge. and he knew others would occasionally do stupid or on purpose stuff to cause money loss to make themselves look suspicious. Sean was on my radar early being an undercover cop, but Ryan crept up as she was so passive in supporting all wrong choices. But Sean did more active sabotage.

Very surprised at both Ryan and Hannah going home. I really thought Ryan was the mole and was pretty sure it wasn’t Muna. I think it’s Sean now, who was my second choice. I can’t believe they let Michael be on the ropes. He is the heaviest, that was stupid.

I think it’s Ryan. She always supports wrong suggestions, and holds back in general. Michael just wants suspicion his way.

It’s hard to have Lady Gaga in a movie and not have her sing. But yeah Joaquin should not. boy this movie dragged. Glad I just watched at home.

you might quibble over the quality of Grande's acting, but she has been acting since at least 2010. so that is more than "almost no acting experience" in my book. I remember her from Victorious (because i have kids).

i give Jamie a little bit of a pass because he had a letter to deliver to Washington and clearly couldn't bring Lord John with him. But he should have immediately gone to the camp where they had Lord John and explained things. I don't think he will forgive himself if something bad happens to Lord John (though somehow I expect LJ will survive).

I thought Weissman took an awful risk allowing the cop bar to get shot up when he had hidden the record behind the photo. he couldn't stop a bullet ricocheting off something and hitting the photo, going through it and the record, destroying the recording and there goes the only shot at stopping the time loop. of course, the problem with these stories is how the loop started in the first place. and i still can't get over how the old lady Harker decided to allow some strange man into her home to pretend to be her son (let alone society accepting him because at least some people had to have known the real Julian Harker beforehand and knew this guy wasn't him - at least until he started making money for them - mannix must have studied 1889 finance very closely to find out how to make money very fast).

after some reflection, i thought the story was pretty good. taking it from Helen's POV for the most part (with a bit of Sam's at times), it did a pretty good job of laying it all out. so of course we needed Reed's explanation of the whole story at the end to fill in the bits neither Helen nor Sam saw. One could see where Reed was a bit worried about Helen's loyalties to the Doves' when she started seeing Jason and it sounds like Reed didn't know Jason was MI5 until she got the whole story at the end. Who did she get that bit of info from? But Reed was worried about losing her spy that was getting close to #10. Still, i think she played her cards too soon with Dani. Once Jason was dead, sure Helen wanted vengeance, but that didn't mean she was now going to leave Wallace. and how long as the nanny been a Dove? I do wonder how Helen can explain all her late night outings to Wallace on ...what helping Sam with...something? I guess Helen must have done all her christmas shopping done early since she clearly wasn't doing shopping during these outings. And really, the dead Chinese ambassador's daughter isn't immediately flown back to China when she's found, but can spend christmas with two assassins? sure. or is she still "in hiding?" i guess that wasn't really explained. wasn't that a nice bit of coincidence that the only survivor of that big shoot out was Cole Atwood. You really think he's not going to want to use his bit of knowledge about Helen in the future sometime? and even if Jason reported to MI5 that Helen wasn't a spy, shouldn't MI5 still be worried that the wife of the defense secretary and now eventual PM is at risk for having affairs?

I think Helen told Wallace that she had been out with Sam (who is gay) and he is an old friend having boyfriend or partner problems as an excuse for being out a lot. Glad they had Reed explain everything at the end, kind of needed it. I guess Jason didn’t blow Helen’s cover. and Sam looks to be staying and working for Hector.

Yeah very anti-climactic for the penultimate episode. And Reed played her cards way too soon against Helen. No one else thought to check Maggie’s work before Helen? Wow, real bad spies. So did Jason blow Helen’s cover to someone? Or did Helen just raise a red flag at the embassy because she’s Wallace’s wife?

And now we know Reed is willing to sacrifice Helen and Sam.

He has to find him again first

A spy outfit for hire to the highest bidder. They sell government secrets to other countries or companies depending on the information.

Seems like no one cares where Lord John is and that seems odd to me. Sure Jamie is a bit put out, but geeze guy, LJ saved Claire’s life. Not that the reason for the marriage has been told yet. We just have to hear on and on about how the sex occurred. I don’t really care about William’s adventures with Jane or whoever. This seemed like a filler episode only serving to put characters in positions. maybe that’s why no one else is talking.

I don't know what Corman thought when he said "the three of them" would get on a plane. What did he think Bree was going to do with her daughter while they were away? and why not call the police? just call them and say this guy kidnapped my son because he thinks we have hidden scottish gold in our property somewhere. like the police are going to believe this guy's story about gold in america and time traveling? if he goes on about Roger timetraveling, all Bree has to say is that her husband is a history professor away on a fact finding trip and she is not sure exactly where he is right now. yeah, the problem she has is finding Jem and then afterwards is somehow getting a message to Roger. but hopefully Roger figures out that Jem is not in the 1740s and comes back on his own after he finds his father.