"Oh, now, now, now, now, now, just a minute. You must understand, my dear: On the stroke of twelve, the spell will be broken, and everything will be as it was before."
This is the only time I can remember that we really see how Illya Kuryakin thinks from his Soviet point of view. There is an acerbic quality to his comments, a defensiveness that is unique to this one scene among the entirety of the episodes. I find it one of the truly enlightening scenes concerning our Russian. I wrote a little something to go
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