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Everything about the Renee character seems like a big tease to me. It was amusing at first. As viewers we've been trained to view everyone as either spy, counter-spy, or mark. This angle of having Renee wanting Stan to get her a job at the Bureau is just more of the same. We're so close to the end of the show that I don't actually want her to suddenly pops up as a significant undercover player in the story right at the end. I want her to just be what she seems on the surface: Stan's civilian wife who admires him for being a Fed and wants to do something meaningful with her life, too. I'm already doing mental gymnastics trying to understand S6 Paige Jennings. Super undercover spy Renee is a huge stretch.