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The Americans, Season 1, Episode 5

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Roland Cooke

I actually learned (researched) this listing because of a status board on the wall in the Australian-US co-production "Pine Gap", which is about the activities of the Australia hub of the Five Eyes surveillance operation (tasking satellites and tuning into domestic Chinese phone calls and such). One of the INT specialties is ELINT (electronic intelligence) which involves listening out for [military] equipment signals. So if a GPS system on a missile launcher suddenly lights up, that individual status bar on the board would go to red or whatever. If most/all of that board is going red...well then you are in Cuban Missile Crisis territory. Pine Gap is not a perfect show, but overall very good, and the spycraft stuffs _feels_ right. (I underline that I have zero background in this stuff, I'm just a massive nerd-fan)

Weird Magic

Originally airing on February 27, 2013, 'Comint' is Episode 5 of Season 1 of The Americans. It is the 5th episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 7.9, placing it as the #9 ranked episode of this season and #4 out of all the episodes shown so far.