Isn’t that always the way? You’re looking forward to a fun
trip to Orlando with the family. You’re envisioning repeated rides on Spaceship
Earth and the People Mover, winding down the day with dinner in Italy and a
beer in England. Then your stupid boss comes down with a case of the glanders
and he’s coughing up blood and it turns out you might have it too so you chase
down the bioweapons guy and spit in his face to make sure he has to give you
the vaccine and then you have to be quarantined for 36 hours.
“I guess we’re not going to EPCOT,” Philip pouts.
It didn’t take long for Chekov’s bioweapon to explode and
the Jenningses came perilously close to death as the cap could easily have come
undone in their garage. I’m guessing Claudia will again become the handler
because it looks like Gabriel is about to die. After all, William told them
they should have wrapped his body in plastic and burned it. William, by the
way, is fascinating so I hope they keep him around. He’s allergic to dust,
butter, sausage and candy. He has no sense of smell and his body produces no
natural lubricants.
I am curious why Elizabeth is working that woman from the
Mary Kay group. “You don’t have to look like a Martian. We’re all Americans
now,” she says in the latest bit of loaded dialogue for this show. “That’s
Americans for you,” Elizabeth tells her fellow immigrant about the toys kids
throw away when they’re done with them, offering an inadvertent revelation of
how she, Nadezhda, feels about the spoiled Americans.
It’s interesting to see that Elizabeth, with a much stronger
connection to Russia, doesn’t want to return home (though I did like her
wistfulness when she talks about living by the sea in Odessa, a retirement
dream that will probably never come true), while Philip, who is enjoying life
in America, is ready to run. I hope they do get to go to EPCOT, since the fake
American family wandering around a theme park with fake countries would be
thematically rich.
The choices are exfiltration or killing Pastor Tim and
Alice, but as everyone notes, there is no good choice. This was bound to happen
one way or another. Gabriel feels it was a mistake to bring Paige into the fold
but she would have found out anyway due to her natural curiosity. Philip is
already getting her to work as a spy and work the pastor and his wife.
I was surprised everyone took such an open tack to this
dilemma, with Philip and Elizabeth actually talking to Tim before doing
anything. I liked Paige taking initiative and trying to reason with her pastor.
She seemed offended by his suggestion that her parents might hurt people in
their spy work but Pastor Tim’s comments did pique her curiosity, leading her
to ask her parents more questions (and have them lie their faces off again
about not hurting anybody).
I’m guessing this may be the last we see of Nina alive. I
wonder if they will execute her off-screen and that dream was a symbolic
afterlife for her. She took some satisfaction in what Anton wrote to mitigate
her sentence. I think she’s just done with being a victim and even if she gets
killed for it, her actions have given her a form of control.
Meanwhile, the Mail Robot is back! Yay! It delivers a message
about feelings. Gaad gets pissy about the unlogged copies and OH MY GOD STAN
TOTALLY KNOWS MARTHA DID IT.
The first three episodes have been good but a little quiet.
With the glanders quarantine and Martha’s surveillance, I think things will
really ramp up soon.
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