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Post by twodollars on Mar 11, 2013 12:55:01 GMT -4
I was freaking out over the kids hitchhiking as I was taught to never hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers. That made for a weird experience when traveling in Ireland as hitchhiking is really common there and we'd see hitchhikers all the time.
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Post by bklynred on Mar 11, 2013 13:12:11 GMT -4
I was a 70s baby and hitchhiking was just truly phasing itself out when I was young. It wasn't until the 80s though, that the archetype "hitchhike driver/serial killer" was born though.
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Post by sardonictart on Mar 11, 2013 15:38:04 GMT -4
Isn't Ted Bundy partly responsible for the hitchhiker pickup by serial killer connection?
Loving the show. Elizabeth is a stone cold bitch, and I like it. She was really scary when she was beating the hell out of their new handler.
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Post by Ladybug on Mar 11, 2013 16:13:23 GMT -4
My dad hitchhiked from San Diego to New Orleans in the late 50s. He was serving in the Navy when his grandmother died and he didn't have enough money for a bus or train ticket so he hitched. He said it was easy to get rides back then if you wore a military uniform. He must have been about 18 or 19 and grew up in a rural area where hitchhiking was common. In the 70's I remember my teenage cousins decided to hitchhike somewhere instead of borrow our truck or call my parents for a ride (can't remember the exact details) and my dad ripped them a new one (that part I do remember). It must have still been a thing in 1981 because the after school special didn't come out until 1983. |
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celerydunk
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Post by celerydunk on Mar 11, 2013 16:41:56 GMT -4
I asked my mom and she said Etan Patz in 79 and Adam Walsh in 81 were huge stories that made her and her circle of friends start to really talk to us kids about not going with strangers. My dad is no longer alive to ask, but I have vague memories of him picking people up. He knew tons of people so it's entirely possible he was only picking up people he knew.
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waytoocheerful
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Post by waytoocheerful on Mar 13, 2013 23:09:35 GMT -4
"Has she had you for breakfast?" Special Agent John-Boy, I love you!
Poor Mrs. Stan! Stan, you dolt! Your short, bald partner didn't mean your informant!
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Post by Ladybug on Mar 14, 2013 11:01:03 GMT -4
So, does Philip have another kid, or was Irina lying about that? I can't imagine her being so quick to defect if she actually did have a son back in Russia.
Everyone on this show looks so YOUNG to have kids and long marriages. Irina looked barely 30, but she's got a son ready to join the army. Stan and his wife have been married 20 years, since 1961! Elizabeth is supposed to be in her early 40s!
I loved the final scene with Philip and Elizabeth. I hope those two crazy kids make it!
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CarolinaGirl
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Jun 19, 2005 0:07:38 GMT -4
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Post by CarolinaGirl on Mar 14, 2013 11:46:16 GMT -4
I think Irina was playing Phillip. I think everything she said was a test. You would think coming off of that KGB test, he'd report her.
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Post by Martini Girl on Mar 14, 2013 14:54:24 GMT -4
But he still slept with her!
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Carolina
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Mar 19, 2005 3:03:24 GMT -4
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Post by Carolina on Mar 14, 2013 15:06:00 GMT -4
But he still slept with her! A poster on TWOP made the point that maybe that was at least partly for the mission. She'd better have at least had sex the night before if she was going to go to the cops and the hospital and say she'd been raped. I also think Irina was lying about the son. She was supposed to be long term deep cover like Liz & Phil? If so, I don't get the impression that they're given updates about their old lives in the USSR. How would she know about the son? The way the son was presented with Irina having semi-regular news of him doesn't make sense, IMHO. CarolinaGirl, I think you're right. This was a loyalty test for poor Mischa. |
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