Gus isn’t a resolvable, 30-minute sitcom. Crisis and grief are
also part of his personal landscape. An especially moving—and wearisome—subplot
is his strained relationship with his wife, Angela, an academic who resents her husband’s
marital hiatus for quality time with his family. The prospect of moving to Iowa is
a further crack in their shaky marriage.

Gus shelves his marital anguish for a summer of much-needed soul- and self-assessment.
His sojourn in Queens proves invaluable. When anybody returns to his or her childhood
home, reminiscence often collides with new experiences, and Gus lays himself open
to all of it.

Plumbing in Harlem is crammed with moments of beauty and memory. Case in
point: As Gus climbs the steps to take a shower after his first day of exhausting—and
fruitless—plumbing, he remembers as a child counting the same stairs as(Daily Wire) Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans - U.S. State Department staffer Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods - were murdered during a 13-hour terror attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that started on the night of September 11, 2012.

On Monday, giving testimony in Washington against terrorist Ahmed Abu Khattala, who's accused of orchestrating the attack on the consulate, Diplomatic Security Special Agent Scott Wickland, the ambassador's bodyguard, revealed Stevens' harrowing last words:

“When I die, you need to pick up my gun and keep fighting," Stevens told Wickland.

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