Elementary 1x11

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Discussion post for Elementary 111 - 'Dirty Laundry'

Spoilers in the comments.

What did you think?

Comments

[atheist-cheese.livejournal.com]

too much suspension of disbelief. I mean, I don't really expect much from TV writers but both as a Russian and as a human being a sense of logic the writing here was ridiculously weak.

why would russian spies do anything so stupid as retain deducable bits of their culture lying around?

I'm not expert on spying but a lot of the assumptions made in the episode were dumb. If you're going to want a second-gen spy you're obviously going to have to groom her. Just dropping "hey, you're going to act a spy now, okay?" on 17 year old girl is a stupid idea as anyone with a brain could see.

Oh also the fact that the dad could just casually blackmail his spy-wife and handler and still be, well, alive and doing his job.

I could buy someone getting that attached to their kids (sort of. good spies aren't really the type) but I can't buy him being SO STUPID as to go about protecting her in that way.


also why why why was their handler so confident he'd be traded back. (or that he'd talk at all. >>) spies that get caught get burned. Especially in this situation where the stakes are relatively low -- they haven't infiltrated anywhere important and they obviously don't know anything big.

I could go on and on. the stupid killed my brain here.