It’s March of 1963, and Jake and Bill now live in an apartment below Lee Harvey Oswald and his hot Russian wife Marina - where they still keep tabs on his relationship with George de Mohrenschildt, who’s probably working with the CIA to plot General Walker’s murder. More on that later.Īs in previous episodes, the events and characters relevant to the actual plot are the least compelling. It sets the stage and provides the title of 11.22.63’s fourth episode, which rides on the drama of its characters scrambling to hide their secrets, but still manages to be dull - with one gleefully insane exception. “Do not think you can escape them/ At night or early in the morn,” goes the song, which was also, incidentally, sung to JFK by a bunch of school kids on the morning of his assassination. At pep rallies and football games, University of Texas students sing “ The Eyes of Texas,” a school spirit song that’s ostensibly meant to inspire greatness, but instead, creeps everyone out with its threat of constant surveillance.
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