Ernest P Shackleton
One Too Many
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I can see that, but I think they tried to give us an implied change. The dream sequence, the image of the Russian he murdered, the visual of his wife in bed with someone else, the officer saying something like "the fate of the world is in those jumbled numbers and words" (I can't remember the line, but it was significant), helping balance the Reagan photo, etc. They all show Stan is in existential crisis, the loss of self, and Stan finding his bearings. At the other end, Paige is finding herself and beginning to define who she will become. And then Nina still sitting at her desk and making the decision to stay, though she had other options beyond Stan and the KGB because of the envelop of cash. The whole episode was really about "where are your loyalties, and who are you really?"But I do think they bungled the end of the Stan/Nina plot: one minute he's wearing a wire to get info on Echo, the next he's kissing her off with a note? It seemed like there's a scene missing.