Just rewatched. Rene is a spy. Full stop.

Evidence:

1. She comes on waaaaay too strong

2. She encourages Stan to stay in his dept at FBI when he wants to leave so she can get intel on what said dept is up to

3. She smiles too much

Come at me

Deadly

This is the scene when Philip confesses that the business is going under and he's heading to join Elizabeth in Houston over Thanksgiving for one last mission.

Philip's eyes are saturated with despair. God, the weight of it.

I underestimate how much love Stan has for Philip, enough to let him be exfiltrated.

And Philip saying that heartbreaking line in the garage: "you were my only friend, in my whole shitty life. for all these years, my life was the joke, not yours."

Philip deserved friends. He was so charming, so full of love to give, so good--

At the end of the fight scene with Paige after he releases her from his endless and unbreakable grip.

Was he trying to end the encounter -- necessary but probably traumatic to both of them -- on a warm note? And mumbling that was all he could muster.

He looked broken. 

Or was he being sardonic to drill in the lesson as far as it could go--