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Solid build up for the season final. Jennings Elizabeth is a great episode. There is well researched back grounds of characters. The Russian back home are fighting for their ideas and country. Olav is put into a tight situation as well as Olav's family. Liz finds out about being used, and the viewer finds out Phil and LIz are patriots for there country as well as communists. Page is not from Page's parent's hardened back ground and stands up to mother over moral issues . Spy trade craft is excellently displayed with drops, captures, and interrogations. F B I procedures are followed and the trap is set for the Jennings which are trying to stop a cue in their own country. Great Research, and direction as the story unravels. Nine out of ten stars.

"Jennings, Elizabeth" ranks as one of the greatest episodic deconstructions of a character 'Elizabeth Jennings' by using astonishingly succinct flashbacks that beautifully renders the core of the character. When we see a flashback into an incident that Elizabeth encounters while in training and how she deals with it, we immediately realize her 'black or white' way of seeing the world. The final arc is when we see a juxtaposition between who Elizabeth was and who she has become thirty years fast forward. This is a woman who has literally sold her soul and identity for a "greater purpose". But its heartbreaking when she understands that this "greater purpose" is not helping anyone other than the dictators at Kremlin. And finally, when it's a done deal that the Jennings' have to escape to Russia, in a snap Elizabeth Jennings is gone! So is her American life! That's the longevity of a soul-crushing faux identity.

I love the episode. I didn't like the way Beeman made this 1 in a billion thought that crossed his mind to suspect the Jennings. Come on! They were his neighbors for years and there is no way this thought could cross hid mind. Couldn't the author come up with a smarter solution to wnd this series? I'm disappointed, would give it 8 for the adrenaline.

As we are coming to the end, with Beeman finally confessing to his boss his intuition of having potentially been fooled by his neighbours for such a long time, I wonder why he didn't mention that the names search he did return nothing on them...

There are lots of loose threads hanging here (Misha - Phillip, Tuan - Pasha, Martha, Oleg's Dad, Renee's being a spy or not, the Stealth scientist Baklanov, Young-Hee, Gabriel, Arkady, Henry, Jackson...) and one hour left in which to determine the fates of our main characters as well as these loose threads.

I expected "Jennings, Elizabeth" to show the endgame, with the final episode being a "Where are they now?" kind of thing (a la Band of Brothers final episode.) The episode title alone elicited visions of mugshots or morgue tags, not pre-Google era database searches which showed no results (what, like there aren't 1,000 Elizabeth Jenningses in the US?). Why didn't Stan go to the IRS for info?

Also, there seems to be an inconsistency of tactics, where Claudia *knows* that Elizabeth is going to protect Nesterenko, and Elizabeth surveils Nesterenko undetected and unfollowed by the "bad KGB". The Claudia we know would have had Elizabeth "taken care of." And then the surreal scene in which Claudia and Elizabeth face each other, knowing each is on the opposite side of an internal civil war, yet it ends with Elizabeth silently walking out the door while a shaken, but hungry, Claudia enjoys her ukha (fish soup.)

The Paige-Elizabeth standoff was gripping - Paige wore her mother down into confirming what (she says) she already knew. It is hard to see how they can reconcile, and it especially interesting because Elizabeth is shown to be adamantly against people lying to her, yet she tries her best to lie to Paige, face to face. Elizabeth is clearly embroiled in internal conflict.

The last episode has a lot of ground to cover. So far, through 5.9 seasons, this has been a truly exceptional show. I am confident/hopeful that the writers will make us all walk away satisfied (maybe terrified, distraught, elated, too) and with a sense of closure.

Damn, I love this show!

Like Stan would phone the priest in Argentina and then demand he keeps it quiet, when he has already kept it quiet for many years that he knows they are Russian Spies, and as for that story, Someone only has to cough near Liz to get a knife or a bullet, so she would def NOT let that priest live as he knows the truth, total cack and then we have Stan talking to his boss, and his boss thinks Stan is a idiot without even asking "Did you do a search on them" I mean that Phil come up as Black, and Liz don't exist does not seem that important anymore And I really really hope that Liz gets her brains blow out all over the street and it's Stan that does it.

Better than last week, some great work from Keri Russell here, but this is still does not feel like the big event it should.

There is no sense of urgency from Stan. There was from the disguised cops on the run, but this is just not as exciting it should be.

Good episode, just not great. I hope the finale reaches great status.