Question of the week #50

[treonb]

At the end of the Season 3 finale Philip started saying something, but Elizabeth (and Reagan) interrupted him.  What do you think Philip intended to say?

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Comments

[sistermagpie]

He was going to engineer a terrorist attack--but necklacing is so cruel and barbaric it probably made it hard to concentrate on that part once he was on fire!

So it's "what I'm doing better..." that still puzzles me. The whole non-speech is completely incomprehensible except that it seems like he probably is saying that he needs some actual feeling that what he's doing will lead to some positive conclusion down the line.

Though in this case the positive outcome was probably more obvious--he's keeping Martha from getting caught. I do think they were just throwing things out there to go in whatever direction they wanted--and also that Philip really can't articulate his feelings yet. He has no problem expressing himself about how he feels about Paige being in the KGB, for instance, or how he feels about Gabriel pushing for it. It's his own feelings about himself that make him more confused--which is why he's attracted to EST and still not able to communicate it, imo.