The embassy massacre was very strange. Why did Mary pull the pin? It looks like the hand grenade detonated between AGRA and the civilians. What did she want to achive with that?!

Yes, I was puzzled about the stewardess too.  I presumed she got the stewardess to take her to the toilet and got them changed there - although it would be quite a performance changing both sets of clothes.   I think this was partly just showing Mary's secret agent superpowers of deception.   And perhaps a reference to her being from the US in reality.   But it would probably have just been much similar to change identity when she got off the plane.  It would no doubt be easier to trace her from a drugged stewardess wearing her clothes than if she'd just disappeared.  But wouldn't make such a good scene!

Yes. I watched with quite a few people (22) Sad to say a lot of people groaned or were laughing when Mary died. All that talking as well . Urgh. It was an awful scene.

I have to admit, I almost laughed when she jumped in front of the incredibly slow moving bullet, in the style of Benedict doing a photo-bomb.  It did seem such a cliche that I couldn't believe they were doing it!  But I found her death scene very moving. 

John's animalistic moan was heartbreaking, I thought.

I found her death very moving as well. Right then I was too into it to notice the cliche part of it. Amanda impressed me with her acting, I cried from then on and throughout the episode, I think.

Mothonthemantel wrote:

John growling .lol. More an elephant impression

Well that would fit very well with all the elephants Arwel's been posting.
Full circle.
*nods*

SusiGo wrote:

And what about that plane scene? I still do not understand what it means. Are we to believe she drugged the stewardess or knocked her out and changed clothes with her in a plane full of people? How crazy is this? I am sure we will not have seen the end of this all. 
 

I agree with you on the stewardess scene.
If Mary changed her costume with that of the stewardess while still on the plane, the stewardess´ colleagues would notice the change immediatelly. The crew of the plane is small, there´s no way the three or four people it sustains of wouldn´t know that one of them was replaced.
If the replacement took place out of the plane already and the colleagues would find their missing colleague unconscious and tied up on the toilet for example - it would alert the police right away that one of the plane´s passangers is a dangerous person able of kidnap. And that would cause an outcry and maybe even a media coverage. 
So why was the replacement neccessary? If Mary just stepped out of the plane discreetly as the passanger and got lost immediatelly, no one would find out about it anyway... so why did she throw a light on herself with that unneccessary kidnap?
 

Last edited by nakahara (January 2, 2017 2:38 pm)

Ah, the magic of a TV show!

Just a note: I watched for this on my second viewing. The flight attendants on the plane were not wearing the same uniforms that Mary was when wearing pushing the wheel chair.  So apparently the switch did not happen on the plane but later in the airport. 

One other thought as I am still processing everything. I never expect, nor do I look for, a ton of reality from this show. "Magical" things happen that could never happen in real life that, for me, make it extremely entertaining TV.  No, Mary could never have had the time to leap in front of a real-life bullet once fired; but this was done slow motion and in my mind I think of her as having anticipated the shot and jumped just as the trigger was pulled. I guess we can blame the director if it didn't come off right but I'm perfectly fine with it.