Renee: A Theory
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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?
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?
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Date: 2018-05-12 06:50 pm (UTC)I'm still hoping that she's just a nobody civilian who happened to marry Stan Beeman.
no subject
Date: 2018-05-13 02:20 am (UTC)Plus if she was an Illegal she didn't manage to find out about the Teacups even.
The show almost never does one of these surprise spy reveals. In her case it's possible because Philip raised the possibility, but she mostly just seems weirdly written. Like if she was a spy she ought to not come across like a fembot quite so much.
no subject
Date: 2018-05-13 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-13 03:44 pm (UTC)That's no longer a show about spies. It's like a Twilight Zone episode where Stan's the only human among aliens.
no subject
Date: 2018-05-13 06:40 pm (UTC)