Yes, I agree. I also thought it was interesting that Philip & Elizabeth are now actively lying to Paige by omission. They told her about the evil-wheat plan, but not that they found out otherwise. They also have kept from her the sleazy aspects of the job, like having sex with "marks" to manipulate them. We might expect this from Elizabeth, but not Philip. It will be interesting to see if his final conversation with Gabriel changes how he reacts to Paige's indoctrination.

It seems odd that they would just write off his character.

I assumed there would be more to this story (suicide, capture, whatever.)

We'll see.

I also thought that they would play up Phil's Russian Son from the affair a little bit more, instead we only got him for a few episodes and then sent back to Russia, I think that was one of the reasons Gabriel retired and I thought he would have come clean with Phil, however he didn't.

Frank Langella has signed on to star in the film adaptation of Roger Rosenblatt’s bestselling novel Lapham Rising, with shooting scheduled to begin in the Hamptons in early spring 2017.

Langella is 79 years old. Margo Martindale has played the KGB handler off and on. She has gotten four Emmy nominations for the role.

Gabriel commented something to Claudia about how he doesn't like lying to Phil and Liz, but we have yet to find out exactly what lie he is referring to. After all, didn't he tell them he doesn't lie to them?