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"This week&amp;#039;s episode of Pan Am wasn&amp;#039;t quite as great as last week&amp;#039;s trip to Berlin, but there were still plenty of enjoyable moments to savour. We start off with the stewardesses returning from a flight. Maggie wants to go and see Bob Dylan (it kind of jars when she says she bets he will be famous - it&amp;#039;s a bit obvious). But Kate tells Laura they shouldn&amp;#039;t go - they need to get ready for their next trip to Iceland. Meanwhile, Dean and Ted are accosted by a captain called Howard, who&amp;#039;s a bit snarky. He basically makes fun of Dean&amp;#039;s jump to captain - and adds that he thought Ted would have been the one to do it since he&amp;#039;s got the family connections. Ouch.  Then we skip forward to the day of the next flight - we&amp;#039;re going to Reykjavik, but Laura&amp;#039;s holding things up because she can&amp;#039;t find her mittens. This is actually rather convenient, because it allows Richard to swoop in and tell Kate off for, you know, trying to save someone&amp;#039;s life and all. But he might just have another assignment for her - he tells her to keep her eyes open in Rangoon. Turns out the stewardesses could be getting redirected... Sure enough, before long the women are sunning themselves beside the pool in Burma. They&amp;#039;re approached by a couple of Naval officers who are working in Saigon. Of course, Ted soon comes over to mark his territory - and reveal that he used to be in the Navy, too. But he likes working for Pan Am now, honest.  While Laura takes part in a swimming race with one of her new friends - and wins - Kate spots a man taking photos of her from the bushes. Instead of thinking that she might need to call the police, she heads over, where the man hands her the camera and asks her to take it to Jakarta. It&amp;#039;s mission time! As the group heads off for drinks, though, Ted suddenly remembers being in the sea with burning oil around him, calling for help to a helicopter above. What could this mean...? Well, we&amp;#039;ll have to wait, because for now it&amp;#039;s time to fly from Burma to Indonesia. Up in the cockpit, Ted, Dean and Sanjeev are having a little squabble about Sputnik and the space race. The conversation switches, unfortunately, when Sanjeev helpfully brings up Bridget.  And Ted&amp;#039;s been thinking - did Bridget help Dean skip the line and become a pilot? After all, there are plenty of more senior pilots around. Dean unsurprisingly takes offence (with a fun line that with the chip on Ted&amp;#039;s shoulder, there isn&amp;#039;t any room for captain stripes). And when Ted asks again how he jumped the line, Dean replies: &amp;quot;Well, why didn&amp;#039;t you?&amp;quot; Frosty.  This also happens to send us into a flashback - Ted&amp;#039;s in front of some kind of Navy panel (I&amp;#039;m not a military person, okay?) Turns out they&amp;#039;ve been investigating his crash, which we saw earlier. Ted is a test pilot and is insisting that there was something wrong with the plane, but the panel thinks he was at fault (they even bring up his drinking, ouch). For the meantime, anyway, he&amp;#039;s going to be placed on admin duty. Back in the present, the group has landed in Jakarta and they&amp;#039;re checking into their hotel. Ted&amp;#039;s desperate to find a television, and even offers to fix the broken set. Meanwhile, Laura is hoping to go exploring, but Kate advises her to rest first while she goes out to get some tourist tips. Of course, Kate&amp;#039;s not really going to head to Jakarta&amp;#039;s tourist information centre - instead, she goes straight to the cablegram office to find out what&amp;#039;s going on with this camera (stupidly, she doesn&amp;#039;t have it with her). The reply is taking ages to get to her - even when she bribes the operator with US dollars. Eventually, he gives it to her and points out the location mentioned in the message (she has to pay again, and it&amp;#039;s only across the street). Meanwhile, Laura is asleep on the bed - but she jumps out of it quick smart when she spots a lizard clambering over her mosquito net (Margot Robbie is excellent at this sort of thing, jumping around and being all wide-eyed). Hearing her screams, Maggie runs in to save her and put the lizard outside. But even she&amp;#039;s terrified when she spots a snake in the bath... The pair end up deciding that the safest thing to do would be to go exploring, so they end up at an Indonesian venue, where they drink beers, play black dominoes, eat chicken curry and watch cockfights. Standard. Eventually, they end up dancing on the tables. Hurrah! Less impressed is Kate, who returns to her hotel room to find Laura missing and their clothes everywhere. What&amp;#039;s worse is that the camera has gone, too. Ted has no idea where Laura is (but offers to give her a &amp;quot;spanking&amp;quot;, yuk). But eventually Laura returns, grinning about how she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;practically a native&amp;quot;. Kate&amp;#039;s furious and only wants to know if Laura has the camera. Laura hands it to her, apologising, and Kate rushes out. Unfortunately, the drop-off point has now shut. Fortunately, her contact appears in a deserted alley, takes it, says she&amp;#039;s late, and walks off. Job done.  Back at the hotel, Kate admonishes her sister for leaving without telling her. She&amp;#039;s annoyed that Laura didn&amp;#039;t even think about her, adding that she doesn&amp;#039;t want to have to worry or take care of her. For her part, Laura&amp;#039;s annoyed that Kate&amp;#039;s not even giving her a chance to be independent - after all, she got this job all by herself.  This scene, by the way, was one of the best of the episode - Robbie and Kelli Garner are really believable sisters, and their arguments crackle with tension. Anyway, Kate&amp;#039;s telling Laura to grow up while Laura is saying everything is easy for Kate - no-one ever expected anything from her. The climax comes when Kate says she just wants Laura to stand on her own two feet but points out that she is wearing bunny slippers, and a tearful Laura says that she likes them. It&amp;#039;s such a silly point, but realistic. Anyway, Laura storms off in her nightgown and finds Ted sitting watching the Mercury 9 launch on television. There&amp;#039;s still trouble with the signal so Laura ends up perched in the window holding up the aerial. But Ted&amp;#039;s grinning and Laura&amp;#039;s smiling back. Surely it&amp;#039;s only a matter of time before they get together, right? But I kind of hope they don&amp;#039;t. What we do get, though, is another flashback. Ted&amp;#039;s gone to see his father, to say that the Navy has offered him honourable discharge. He&amp;#039;s not planning to take it, though. His dad tells him not to be proud and says he&amp;#039;ll put in a word with Pan Am for him, but Ted is insistent - there was a problem with the plane and it needs to be sorted.  Here&amp;#039;s the kicker - it&amp;#039;s being taken care of, but Ted&amp;#039;s father doesn&amp;#039;t want to confirm there was an error with the Navy because he makes the planes and his contract is up for renewal soon. Ted is desperate - this is his last chance at getting on the space program. But it&amp;#039;s too bad, Ted - you&amp;#039;re destined to a life with Pan Am now. Ouch. Back in the present, it&amp;#039;s time to fly on to Hong Kong (and there&amp;#039;s a fun moment where Maggie changes into her girdle in the plane toilet - nice work, Maggie). The plane&amp;#039;s hitting all kinds of turbulence, but the real bumps are coming from Kate and Laura, who are still rowing.  Maggie doesn&amp;#039;t help matters when she makes a comment about it being &amp;quot;hard to fly when your wings are clipped&amp;quot;. Kate bustles after Maggie to find out what she means, but Maggie is all reasonable and tells Kate to let Laura start living by herself. They don&amp;#039;t have too much time to argue, though, because there are crosswinds and rain and it looks like a tough descent into Hong Kong. In fact, it&amp;#039;s so bad that Ted thinks they should abort the landing. He&amp;#039;s soon arguing with Dean, who wants to go through with it (it all gets rather heated). The plane veers all over the place but, of course, Dean manages the landing. Afterwards, though, Ted points out that it was just a little dangerous to attempt the landing (he uses saltier language, mind you). But Dean&amp;#039;s not in the mood for being told what to do and announces that they can be friends and joke around, but he is always in charge in the air. Ted doesn&amp;#039;t take too kindly to this and says he&amp;#039;s just as good a pilot. Dean angrily growls that if he thinks he&amp;#039;s got the wrong seat, Ted should call his daddy and get him to sort it out. Um, bad move, Dean. Doesn&amp;#039;t take much to persuade Ted to punch him.  Two days later, the pair are still not speaking (and Sanjeev doesn&amp;#039;t know who hit Dean). But Ted attempts to make amends by saying it must have been &amp;quot;some jerk&amp;quot;. And when they land, Dean admits that he skipped the captain queue by luck - he met Pan Am founder Juan Trippe in an elevator at HQ and challenged him on his seniority system. But Ted says Dean made his own luck and they make up and everyone&amp;#039;s happy again. Hurrah! Meanwhile, Maggie invites Laura for cocktails, and though she worries that Kate will say no, she agrees to come along. Speaking of Kate, she goes to see Richard, who&amp;#039;s unimpressed that she was six hours late with the drop off. Oh, and he hands over photos Laura took on the camera. Awkward... Anyway, Richard wants to reassign Laura so she doesn&amp;#039;t get in the way, but Kate - of course - sticks up for her sister and insists that she won&amp;#039;t be a problem. In fact, knowing how jealous Laura was of the camera, she stops off at a camera shop on the way home and, smiling, buys one. But it might just be too late. When she gets home, Laura has packed up and gone - she&amp;#039;s now living at Maggie&amp;#039;s. Seeing Kate sitting on her own stroking her scarf was devastating. So another fine episode of Pan Am, then. There was not enough Colette for my liking, and we could maybe have done with a bit more on-plane action (that seems to have taken a back seat lately). And while Ted&amp;#039;s story was interesting and well done, I&amp;#039;m not sure we needed it just yet. In fact, it seemed a bit shoehorned in - &amp;quot;this is why you need to care about the first officer who can be a bit of a pain&amp;quot;. That said, the relationship between Laura and Kate is always well played and this show constantly surprises me by making the espionage storyline not completely ridiculous. With several lovely moments, this&amp;#039;ll keep me going until next week... What did you think of the episode? Leave your comments below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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