Agreed. He was smarter than the average bear, refreshingly articulate and his mistrust and cynicism wholly understandable. He was certainly an improvement over the young dullards we see on videos who don't know what continent we are on, or how many states there are, the name of the capitol city of the US or how to read a freakin' clock. He was also European. For all their faults and problems they still seem to have a better educational system than here in the States. Now, I did think he was needlessly impolite, abrasive and mouthy, his social skills sucked, but he was clearly getting rattled - maybe he sensed that there was something else going on. And there was.