I believe this is the first episode where Brian K. Vaughan was credited as the lead writer and it showed. On it's face this was the Wacky Adventures of Benjamin Lynus, globetrotting around the world acting as super-spy assassin. But really it was about a simple question: what would you do when you've lost everything. The answer is "Anything." What Ben's gong through though takes it further: he seemed to believe he was never going to lose Alex. Never. Those were "the rules." So he not only is capable of anything, but he wants his enemy to know what that feels like, too. An absolutely incredible dynamic, done neatly, quickly and efficiently - dare I say it - as only someone who knows how to work a 22-page script can do it. Bravo, Brian, Bravo.
*An Emmy for Mr. Emmerson?
*I may have missed a crucial part of dialogue, but I think it's safe to assume Ben and The Monster are on the same wavelength. I still don't think Ben controls the Monster outright but probably knows exactly what to tell it to get it pissed.
*They keep teasing Claire's going to die.
*They're setting something up with dead people not being dead because of timey-whimey, wibbly-wobbly shananigans. Could this set-up a return of Christian, Libby or even Charlie?
Next week: "Something Nice Back Home"
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