Renee: A Theory

[quantumreality]

There's been this dangling thread revolving around Renee's presence in The Americans, and nobody's been quite sure what her goal is.

My thoughts went back to something that's been discounted in canon: Stan's past history of infiltrating a white supremacist group and busting it up.

And I got to wondering, what if Renee was somehow connected to that group, and realizes Stan was the agent that got everybody else arrested? She could be a mole trying to get into the FBI to keep tabs on other such groups and tip them off as to investigations and raids, or failing that, at least get the names of FBI agents who are investigating right-wing groups in a given area.

What do you all think?

Comments

[sistermagpie]

Among the many other things I think would be bad about surprise spy Renee is...talk about undercutting the drama of Stan/Philip. He just found out his best friend is a spy but then his wife is a spy too?

That's no longer a show about spies. It's like a Twilight Zone episode where Stan's the only human among aliens.

[saraqael]

Agreed. I really don't want them to go down this path. I'm hoping for Renee as normal, civilian wife who married for love, acting as a counter-balance to Elizabeth, KBG spy wife who married for duty.