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S05E06: Embassy Row

posted 11 years ago by cosmic_surveyor
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Did this episode absolve Ryan McQuaid?

Although Annie Walker never displayed suspicion of McQuaid's possible duplicity where she is adversarial or antagonistic towards him, his 'honesty' seemed genuine towards her.

Ivan Kravec's actions still left me with doubts about McQuaid's innocence, however. When Ivan knows there is a chivalrous man with a gun in the mix, he gladly forgets about him and goes about his business with Annie solo and disarmed. Rather convenient?

I also think the FSB would have moved heaven and earth to retrieve her rather than wait for Ivan to transport her without logistical support. If the FSB knew about Annie's 'capture'.

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[–] dklv-598-231167 11 years ago

I also think the FSB would have moved heaven and earth to retrieve her rather than wait for Ivan to transport her without logistical support. If the FSB knew about Annie's 'capture'.

yeah I was thinking the same thing. If Ivan simply wanted to turn Annie over to Russian authorities, I really don't get why he didn't just leave her detained at the Russian embassy for pickup. Either things aren't as they seem or the writers wanted a way to confirm McQuaid is really a good guy.

[–] simonxlong 11 years ago

Actually, I didn't find it surprising. While everybody at the CIA was concerned the FSB would id her, Auggie and team screwed up their computers. The show never established that the FSB or the Russian authorities ever found out who she was. As for Ivan, he knows she's not who she claims to be, but he doesn't know who she is yet. As far as he is concerned, she could be a plant from a rival bank or even some old adversary in Russia. He may not necessarily want to turn her over to the FSB or SVR yet.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (41638798) 11 years ago

Right, that's what I thought.

Ivan was up to a lot of things, some of which he may not want the Russians to know all about. So leaving her in the Embassy to be detained by the Russians for transport and interrogation actually leaves Ivan exposed if indeed Annie knows something about his operations that he doesn't want the Russians to know.

He said he knew she was CIA but he clearly didn't know what she wanted with him at first.

So taking her out of the Embassy, having his own interrogation or whatnot, or giving him time to try to figure out what she wants with him and what she knows so far, maybe have been the way he wanted to play it.

Maybe he was never going to turn her over to the FSB at all; he just told her that to try to get her to talk immediately.