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The Sympathizer Recap: In Cold Blood


The last of the Park Chan Wook-directed episodes ends in murder like all good Park Chan-Work works.

The Major might’ve learned to speak English fluently in Vietnam, but I’d venture that the first few months of uprooting one’s life to a foreign country is not conducive to starting a black-market business. Speaking of, Robert Downey Jr. makes another appearance, this time as the gravel-voiced Congressman Ned Goodwin, who presents the Major’s mother with an army sword. In the Watchman’s cell, the Captain successfully implies to the prisoner that he is a Communist spy before derisively threatening him of torture: “Why wait until the Americans have electrocuted your balls with a thousand bolts?

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