It involves turning an otherwise ordinary item into one of the most important totems in the world.
Thats narrative magic pure and simple.
Not much happens on the surface of Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow.
Instead the majority of the action takes place exclusively in the characters capable, yet tortured heads.
And the majority of the episode deals with the nuts and bolts of that decision.
Obviously the easiest, most direct solution is to kill him.
And that decision is represented by those aforementioned tickets to the happiest place on Earth: Disney World.
Or more specifically: Epcot Center Walt Disneys idealistic Tomorrowland where all human cultures are represented in harmony.
So of course it is perverted into a symbol of two innocent lives sacrificed into a pointless geopolitical conflict.
What we do isnt so different from what you do, Elizabeth tells him.
Elizabeth and Philip are actually speaking openly with their daughters Pastor about their undercover spy identities.
Its a truly surreal moment in a show full of them.
Paige isnt supposed to come across as angry.
That doesnt help when trying to bring someone over to your side.
Elizabeth and Philips meeting with Pastor Tim wasnt promising and neither was Paiges.
Surely the only option now is to take that fated family vacation to Disney World.
This is where Philip goes full Hamlet.
The only logical solution is to kill this innocent man and his wife.
Philip and Elizabeth havent been living as Americans all this time for their health.
They have a mission and Pastor Tim is now in the way of it.
The only solution is to kill him.
Still, Philip has another one that he likes better: to run.
Once its a reality, Philip is even more adamant about running.
But Elizabeth points out that even thats not an option.
You dont think theyd hate us then?
The things we built here matter.
It all matters, she says.
Elizabeth is just like her new Korean-American friends Young-hee and her race-masking Mary Kay makeup.
I tell my friends they dont have to look like Martians, Young-hee says.
We are all Americans now.
Still, Martha has nowhere to run.
Shes a part of this.
Philip and Elizabeth are Americans, they cant run.
Still, there is this undeniable yearning Philip has that he cannot deny.
It seems Paige loses whatever we do.
Undeniable yearning to run?
All Philip is missing from being a real American is a trip to Disney World.
Maybe hell cross that off the list after this little glanders-influenced quarantine with Elizabeth, Gabriel and William.
Rating:
4 out of 5
