general-sleepy:

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this on my blog before, but something that really strikes me about Man from U.N.C.L.E. is how the first episode (or the pilot movie) ends with Napoleon looking out an airplane window at the innocent hugging her family with a wistful, almost regretful expression.

But, we never see this trait from him again. Because, by only a few episodes later in the season, most of the time, Napoleon ends the episode with Illya at his side. He’s not lacking in the sort of intimate, personal relationship with another person that he clearly longed for in the first episode. 

Just another way that Napoleon is the anti-Bond: he has someone that he loves and trusts on a deeply personal, unique level, and he’s still a badass globe-trotting spy.