GRU is the abbreviation for Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie, (Russian for Chief Intelligence Office), which is Soviet Military Intelligence.
A young Faraz Hamzad said near the opening of the episode, 'And the wise old man said, "Language, by its nature, deceives. "Cloaks the truth in darkness...rather than illuminate it."' "Truth," said the wise old man, lives only in silence." When everyone is lying about everything until they aren't saying anything, then it's the truth. Dan Chase relayed a similar story to Zoe before the tow truck arrived in II (2022).
Misophonia is defined as a strong reaction to specific sounds.
NVA is short for North Vietnamese Army, which in turn is a reference to the Vietnam War which the United States lost. The Afghanistan-Soviet War ( (1979-1989) , according to President Jimmy Carter's (1976-1980) policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was supposed be to the Soviet Union's "Vietnam". The Former Soviet Union intervened in order to support the local Communist party which came to power in a coup, and counter pro-Islamic insurgency.