My other favorite humor moment is Philip saying see, he told Elizabeth they should have put in a secret room and she says "You mean the wine cellar you wanted to put in below the laundry room?" and he says he did say it would have other uses. I love their domestic/spy conversations.
I think Philip took Stan to the garage because Philip suspects from the start that Stan is toying with him so he's going to go down or get away clean. He doesn't really believe Stan's innocently asking for jumper cables so doesn't bother to pretend he doesn't have them. At least that's how I read it.
Re: Philip, I don't know if he really flipped regarding the KGB. I think he was considering defecting when he thought they were made and he could get out ahead of it to save his family, but he never would have just broken under torture if he wasn't sure it was the best thing for him. When he's kidnapped in Trust Me I don't think he sees himself in a good bargaining position, plus he knows that Elizabeth would be counting on him and he wouldn't want to put her in danger. Dying for his country was probably never a problem for him.
Do they fully drop Stan's learning Russian? It's used well in Trust Me but I'm with you--I wish they'd bring it up again because I've no doubt Stan must be near-intelligible in Russian. Really I want a scene where he says something in Russian to Philip and Philip totally sincerely just says "What?"
I don't actually think Philip is being dense understanding what happened, just shocked at taking in the emotional impact. He pretty much does pick up on exactly what happened the minute Timoshev says what he does. He just wants one of them to say it.
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Date: 2013-08-31 09:30 pm (UTC)I think Philip took Stan to the garage because Philip suspects from the start that Stan is toying with him so he's going to go down or get away clean. He doesn't really believe Stan's innocently asking for jumper cables so doesn't bother to pretend he doesn't have them. At least that's how I read it.
Re: Philip, I don't know if he really flipped regarding the KGB. I think he was considering defecting when he thought they were made and he could get out ahead of it to save his family, but he never would have just broken under torture if he wasn't sure it was the best thing for him. When he's kidnapped in Trust Me I don't think he sees himself in a good bargaining position, plus he knows that Elizabeth would be counting on him and he wouldn't want to put her in danger. Dying for his country was probably never a problem for him.
Do they fully drop Stan's learning Russian? It's used well in Trust Me but I'm with you--I wish they'd bring it up again because I've no doubt Stan must be near-intelligible in Russian. Really I want a scene where he says something in Russian to Philip and Philip totally sincerely just says "What?"
I don't actually think Philip is being dense understanding what happened, just shocked at taking in the emotional impact. He pretty much does pick up on exactly what happened the minute Timoshev says what he does. He just wants one of them to say it.