re: Homeland

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how in TF would Carrie reasonably conclude that that was the way Saul was communicating with his Russian asset . A space in the binder cover was the light bulb moment though. Lol gtfo.

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I don’t think she knows for sure but has a feeling that is the way messages were concealed. The defector Kuznetsov told her that books were the way Saul liked to pass messages; he liked to use simple everyday objects hidden in plain sight. So she took that nugget of info. Then she noticed Saul had several more of the books like the one kept by Kuznetsov, still hidden in plain sight on his bookshelves, mixed in with other books. She noticed some of them were from Moscow shops. She noticed he had written on the endpapers the dates he received them then realized they were around the times he made his intelligence coups (Gorbachev negotiations with Reagan, Chernobyl, Ames, etc). Then she smiled; that was the light bulb moment for her.

Okay, so she is convinced that the books are the way in which info is passed between Saul and his asset. But how? She looks through them, finds no marks or notes. She finds no concealed sleeves or hidden features. Then she examines further and notices that the binding is slightly separated from the spine cover. She notices that the other specific books have the same trait. They didn’t show us but we can assume that his other books did not have this characteristic; I know most of mine don’t, even the older ones.

So she reasonably assumes that this is the specific way that Saul and his asset conceal messages in the books.

Seems plausible to me.