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Anyone else wonder if E hit Martha just a bit harder than necessary? It really rankled her last season when Martha was talking about what an animal Clark was in bed.

Good point! Did Oleg and Tatiana actually say/imply the passenger was a person? Maybe they were searching for a pilot for the rat? None that were shown on-screen. I imagine Philip was very careful about any photos taken.

True! However from what little I've read, they produced little actionable intel and mostly lived nice Americanski lifestyle on the KGB's dime.

I marvel at the beauty of Tatiana's acting. When she's Sarah as Alison, she has to be just different enough that we can appreciate that she's really Sarah, but not so different that Alison's soccer mom friends don't get suspicious (achievable since Sarah (a "child of the streets") is crafty enough to improvise). And of course Alison as Sarah was slightly more different since Alison isn't good at that sort of thing. Where the hell is her row of Emmys??

That scene felt false to me. It's standard MO to drop a thermometer in the sample upon receipt, to confirm the testee isn't doing exactly what Beth was doing. Someone help me out here--why did it take so long for Art to discover Beth was dead? Seems like the morgue would have contacted the police right away. I think that's why they made her character so paranoid and reclusive--to explain why we haven't seen her.

Ah, right, makes sense. I guess they were kind of explicit--especially if you paused the DVR and turned your head 180 degrees or so I hear anyway...

Random question...as usual the show was rated TV-MA, but this ep had not just the usual language and violence, but "sexual situations". I must have missed it, unless it was Elizabeth being all feverish :P

I thought the dropped charges happened after the "accessorize your yard with bats" party. I got the impression they were thrilled he beat a child molester and were cheering him on.

Maybe...but weren't they heading north to NY at that point? So, still in the NC-VA area? Thought of one more: Small-town folks in Maine show their support (for a beating you didn't actually commit) by acquiring and tossing dozens of baseball bats into your back yard. And they include blue and red ones for variety. And no one inside your home will notice (or be panicked by) the multitude of cars stopping by, OR the noise of bats clattering on your driveway.

Things I've learned from this show: - Stretches of Interstate 95 look like two-lane country roads, despite it being the primary route to and from Florida for Northerners. - Female small-town cops take the mayor's drunk husband home to sleep it off on their couch, even though the mayor's daughter might be worried about dad's safety, and even though it's completely freaking inappropriate. - Cops who have had sex with the mayor's husband send texts to break it off instead of I dunno, calling? - Cops and FBI agents investigating a (still at-large!) child abductor abandon their list of employees who own trucks with suspicious tires, if the owner has cleverly sold the truck to a scrap-metal dealer. (this last one is just insanely lazy and stupid, writers)

1. How did Frank get in so easily? Wouldn't the colonel have revoked his badge? He wouldn't have wanted Frank spilling the beans that the Nazis are not in fact on the verge of a gadget, right? 2. Did anyone else get the impression that Oppie (while on the phone with Charlie) was getting some "Communist indoctrination" from Jean? But then she stood up from the back corner of the chair. Maybe WGN didn't want it to be too overt?

So Meeks is not just a "24"-style mole, but rather has a (misguided?) motivation to balance the odds. But he thinks he's informing the Soviets, not the Nazis? And have we seen him playing chess before?

Just the lesbian sex part.

I think the colonel doesn't want Frank leaking to those under him that the Nazis are working off of his (old?) calculations, and they aren't nearly as far along with their bomb as they feared (especially since Magpie is dead). Doesn't want to lose the big motivating force. Even with Frank under guard, he would have to interact with people on occasion to discuss calculations, construction, etc. Interesting that the show told us in episode 1 that Frank is not going back to the team--ever.

If Frank taught calculus, it's possible he read John Von Neumann's 1928 paper before Von Neumann's book came out in 1944.

Got curious about Charlie's use of "WAMD". As near as I can determine: - the phrase "atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction" was not used until *after* Hiroshima/Nagasaki - "WAMD" was not in common use (if at all) - Around 1947, the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" (and later, "WMD") replaced the long phrase (although it had been used at least once, in 1937) Nice retcon attempt, writers.

Heh. Longtime geek myself. :PWorth a listen if you have on-demand. Kind of discordant and harmonic at the same time.

Anyone else notice the amazing string ensemble music during the opening scene? Really built the tension, up to the moment the gadget was revealed.

Hey, you knew more than I did. I had no idea that Nagasaki was a secondary target until I saw your post. I knew only the story about Stimson nixing Kyoto because of its cultural significance.

From Wikipedia: "Kokura was the backup target for the "Little Boy" bomb on August 6, 1945, so if Hiroshima had been clouded over, the first atomic bomb would have been dropped on Kokura. Kokura was the primary target for the "Fat Man" bomb on August 9, 1945, but on the morning of the raid, the city was obscured by clouds and smoke from the firebombing of the neighboring city of Yahata the day before. Since the mission commander Major Charles Sweeney had orders to drop the bomb visually and not by radar, he diverted to the secondary target, Nagasaki." Little Boy was a gun-type bomb, and Fat Man was an implosion-type. So ultimately both were used. Wonder when we'll see the gun-type reintroduced.

Did anyone else find the bomb-squad guy at the opening a little harsh? Is it SOP to scream at an (obviously) unarmed naked woman, apparently traumatized, to "get down on your knees and put your hands on your head!"? I mean, maybe the bag still contained a threat, but shouldn't have he been saying stuff like "ma'am we're going to get you some help" and calling for an ambulance, not bellowing at her from a distance? Sheesh. As Jane pointed out, she wasn't being detained (or arrested). You can't sequester someone just because you think their tattoos are relevant to a crime.

Yes...but all they have to do is call Hobbs and tell him where Fred is. True, but maybe there's a reason (power consumption, maybe? some other reason?) that Off means Off. Presumably they were charged while at Hobbs' lab.

Gordon was in Arkham, looking basically like a prison guard. Morena Baccarin was a doctor. I wondered that too. Some kind of keepsake box, with a winged (eagle?) emblem on top. Definitely not a bat though. Bruce looked a little hesitant to let it go, maybe it belonged to his father?

"Everyone, let's eat." (Despite the dead guy face down in his pasta) And apparently they *do*.

About $32,000 today. He probably could have bought Gillian's release with that kind of money.