Also, there's so many degrees of knowledge here, it's not all or nothing. Philip and Elizabeth could tell Elizabeth something about what they do without explaining any of the details. She's not going to leap to the conclusion that Philip has a second wife, Elizabeth's blowing strangers in hotel rooms, they're both assassinating people. She doesn't know the details and she'd have no reason to know them. These aren't things either parent would be eager to talk about with her and they're going to be naturally reticent anyway because these are secrets that aren't always just theirs to keep. I think they'd both be somewhat aware that there's a huge difference between what they consider normal (like Elizabeth just saying "it happens" about guys getting rough in the bedroom with her) and what other people consider normal (Paige being more freaked out by seeing them having sex than they were).
One of the interesting things about that last ep, the more I think about it, is that Philip actually doesn't tell Arkady the kids are off limits. He tells him that the Centre can't approach the kids themselves. It's still presumably understood that Philip and Elizabeth are expected to fall in line. So that's where we're left, with Philip prepared to find a way to avoid having the kids brought in and Elizabeth considering whether they should do it. They made it an issue between the two Jennings instead of Jennings vs. the Centre for now.
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Date: 2014-08-08 06:25 pm (UTC)One of the interesting things about that last ep, the more I think about it, is that Philip actually doesn't tell Arkady the kids are off limits. He tells him that the Centre can't approach the kids themselves. It's still presumably understood that Philip and Elizabeth are expected to fall in line. So that's where we're left, with Philip prepared to find a way to avoid having the kids brought in and Elizabeth considering whether they should do it. They made it an issue between the two Jennings instead of Jennings vs. the Centre for now.