The Thing

I think you see where she's going with this.

But here's the thing.

For our listeners, this...

You're obvious, right? Everyone's already learned this from the first episodes.

[laughs] That opening scene, I, I think I sent you a text as well.

The, the very first scene I was like, "Kate, what are you got me watching?" [laughs]

One of the things I really liked about Morgan was that it did that.

It would...

It could keep working indefinitely, ready to be switched on whenever needed.

All these factors combined to allow the great seal bug to lurk over the ambassador's desk for years, quietly doing its job without arousing suspicion.

The eventual discovery of the thing came about by a mix of accident and clever sleuthing.

In 1951, British radio operators in Moscow were monitoring Soviet military radio traffic when they accidentally picked up something odd.

a seemingly benign plaque that silently listened to diplomats' conversations for years.

The engineering lessons from Theremin's device would inform future surveillance technology, while U.S. counterintelligence grew far more wary of gift-bearing adversaries.

One lingering question in the story of the Great Seal Bug is whether a traitor inside the American embassy tipped off the Soviets about when to activate it.

Historians have debated this for decades, but no hard evidence has ever confirmed an internal mole.