Mentioned in this ep, Kelly is seen in International Concerto.

What a nice happy ending. Sam and Joe get rid of Angela and Mac is convinced she did it out of the goodness of her heart and was not an evil safe-cracker at all. Pretty darn nasty of Sam to then add her brain pattern to the BIGRAT tape library (see Business Holiday)

The beginning of this episode was quite a shock. I can't help wondering why anyone in his or her right mind would ever consider working for this general, no matter how big the rewards could be.

Angela made her big mistake right near the beginning...she called Joe a "sweet boy." No nine-year old boy wants to be considered "sweet" unless he's buttering someone up.

Mac had promised Joe to take him fishing. After Sam returns from wherever, and goes to speak with Mac, he finds them by a waterside, with a dock and a boat visible at one point. Mac is casually stretched out on a bank, reading a book. Later, Mac suddenly remembers that he had promised to take Joe fishing, and had not done so. So what were they doing down by the water? I had assumed that Joe was fishing off the bank somewhere, noticed Sam's approach, and came to see what was going on.

Mac has a good point. Just because he has invented an important tool for intelligence work, does that mean that he is allowed no personal life at all? I've not seen Joe with anyone his own age yet, either. Is he not allowed to have friends for fear of a security breach?

Ah, yes, love is blind. It never occurs to Mac to wonder why a woman's magazine writer knows so much about electronics.

Very sneaky of Joe and Sam to snitch Angela's brain patterns. What would they have done if she had been innocent?

I guess that I'm a prude at heart. I was startled when Joe mentioned quite casually that Angela was coming to spend the weekend at the cottage.

They are being misleading again. When Angela made her way downstairs, I thought, "How did she find the elevator?" Then I thought, "Why would Joe be up in bed when he knows what she is?" When one of Angela's colleagues mentioned seeing a light in the upstairs of the cottage, I thought, "O.K, here they go..." but nothing happened. Then I thought that they had substituted fake papers in the safe, and that Angela and her friends were in for a nasty shock.

The scene with Angela and Joe was pretty nifty, with Joe finishing her sentences and cutting in with information that only she would know. However, why did he tell her the truth? He told her flat out that they had taken her brain patterns and that he was using them to know what she knew, demonstrating his accuracy. Why not just tell her that he could read her mind, or, better yet, just leave her wondering how he was doing it? His knowledge of her information would have told her that he wasn't just playing around.

When Joe started pressing her about the General and his means of dealing with failure, I was expecting her to collapse and start screaming, "Stop it!"

To spare his father's feelings, Joe allowed her to make her excuses to Mac and leave. (I do wonder if Mac subconciously thought that something was fishy, since he didn't protest at all.) However...did Sam allow Joe to think that she had gotten away free and clear? Angela indicated that Joe had promised her clemency.

I did like that shot of Sam in the train, with the newspaper lowered just below his eyes. Looked very menacing.

During the interchange between Joe and Angela, he asked her to think of a number and a country, and answered them both. Unless the brain transference also makes Joe telepathically linked to the person, this wasn't feasible. A person would not necessarily think of the same number and the same country every time.

Mac missed a really obvious ploy as he was saying goodbye for the first time. Angela told him that she thought that his journal article was "marvelous", yet in the next breath she said that she disagreed with almost everything he had said. If she really disagreed, she certainly wouldn't have thought it was "marvelous".

After finding that blue is Mac's favorite color, Angela wears blue for her two visible dates with Mac. Then she stopped bothering with it.

Did Mac continue walking along the waterside in a snit? How did Sam manage to sneak into the cottage and down to the lab?

Angela mentioned that Mac was searching for Joe, and was very worried about him. I wonder how Joe explained that to Mac?

If she (and I ) wanted to be really nitpicky, isn't a marvelous thing something makes the (in this case) reader marvel at it? She could have marveled at how wrong he was.

Hey, nitpicking's what we do here, after all. Go for it!

The word "marvelous" does rather imply approval, certainly in the context that Angela used. She could have predated Data by a number of years and said that she found it "intriguing". Or "interesting", or "remarkable". But of course, she was setting him up, and he fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

It would have been nice if they had included a scene questioning if Joe was really suspicious of her, or if his suspicions arose out of jealousy. Perhaps there at the waterside, when Joe and Sam were talking together. "Joe, are you sure that you wouldn't say the same thing about any woman who was interested in your father?"

It just occurred to me--since Mac was left thinking that Angela was a nice person, wouldn't he still be angry with Sam about invading his private life? How would they have reconciled?