I'm not going to claim that Robert has the best judgment ever, though, so if he wants to twist that into proof that Mary's going to be a wonderful agent, it's not OOC.

Convenient it may have been, but let's all grab hold of the end of the Greene plotline. They must have realised it did nothing for the viewers, and I'm afraid they found another way of making Anna miserable.

I just want her and Edith to be happy. The thing with Edith is she just needs to go for it herself with some realism about the consequences.

By Tom you mean Barrow, not Branson, right? He is being a bit paranoid, but the senior staff's attitude towards him is based on his past behaviour.