#Berlin station episode 4 archive#
#Berlin station episode 4 series#

#Berlin station episode 4 archive#

Back to Dorn: The dissolution of the Stasi archive “on” November 9, 1989, meant that Diver was at risk of being exposed as a double agent.Įsther’s listening, too. (This would be more plausible to me if we hadn’t had season 1, in which Frost was embezzling money to keep Caroline happy and buy her a house in Provence - I mean, is he really that insecure? Doesn’t she owe him one at some point?) Cut to Esther listening to the podcast (at the same time!). You too.”Īfter repeating Steven’s canonical hokey sigh, Frost goes back to listening to Dorn, who reveals that the reason Diver became a double agent is that his wife was drunk driving in Moscow (Diver was even more drunk than she) and kills a pedestrian - so Diver agreed to spy for the USSR in order to keep her out of a Soviet prison. Hector says, ominously, “Tell Valerie I’m doing her one last solid, and then she better lose my fucking number. When questioned further, he says he saw “bits and pieces,” but feigns inability to speak. Steven thought Hector and Torres “missed exfill,” but Hector interrupts to inform Steven he had made it to the green dacha. Steven feigns relief to hear Hector’s voice and reveals to Hector that “Daniel didn’t make it.” Hector seems genuinely upset by this news. Steven’s interrupted by a phone call from Hector. It’s cut through with images of Steven listening to it in a peaceful park (as it turns out, in “Berlin”). I really wish he’d played an ailing Catholic bishop in this show. At this point, they’ve even silenced his voice, and it’s Ashley Judd who says “previously on Berlin Station.”

#Berlin station episode 4 series#

The series has finally gotten around to fully erasing Armitage beyond his picture in the titles. I’ll be calling Spectrum tomorrow to stop paying for this and see if we can get the month prorated. You don’t care about us, writers? Well, we don’t care about you, either. But it wasn’t afraid to encourage us to care about them - which is what made us so sad about their deaths. Spooks also killed off characters in abstruse, cruel ways. This show has never really hit a rhythm regarding a plausible, tense plot - only intermittently and never over an entire season. If the writers can’t be at least as serious as I am about their interest in a plot or a character, it’s a stupid investment on my part because I will always be disappointed. This was a dumb strategy, because that’s why audiences stick with a show, because they find something in it that draws them back every week. Again, so often tonight I found myself thinking - wow, if they’d ever given Daniel Miller an equally weighty plotline where he was more than the ball they were batting around in service of some other character’s plotlines, or if they’d ever given him text to speak like some people got this week.īut not just as a fan of Armitage were we mocked this season: we were mocked as spectators who cared about characters whom the writers were obviously less interested in than we were.

Which makes Orser’s enthusiasm and Forbes’ silence over the last few weeks even more puzzling.Īsk me if I care. So if I were betting on who else was being written out in a hypothetical fourth season, it would be Kirsch, not Valerie. Given how much time ignorant armies spent clashing by night in this episode yet again, you’d think they could have cut that down a bit and answered a few more questions. And then the new problems: What favor is it that Hector did Valerie? Hector somehow survives to the end of this episode despite “suffering from sepsis,” and despite a funeral, Daniel’s death remains unavenged, with an equal number of unenlightened spooks and pregnant glances exchanged at that funeral. We don’t know who was walking past the memorial wall in 3.1 - maybe no one we knew.

(I hate it when they do that.) The sciency weapon thingie was in the series in order to involve the Chinese and get them to cooperate over Fourteen Eyes, except that we find out nothing from / about China, so that plot strand (and the reference to the Four Policeman) was largely abandoned and it’s not entirely clear why it needed to be in here in the first place - unless to give April independent screen time. So Valerie’s friend was apparently not in these episodes for any particular reason. There are also a ton of unresolved plot problems. However, there are several unanswered questions relating to issues left open last week - what the relationship between Frost and Platov was, how Daniel’s body got from Komorovo to Berlin, etc. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.Ĭan we say: they definitely think they’re getting another season? Yes, Estonia is saved (apparently throwing on a light switch was all they needed) and Platov’s plot is foiled. broadcast but still want a fresh look at them when the show becomes legally available in your region. PLEASE do not read them if you are not watching concurrently with the U.S.