I always feel sentimental when I hear Shostakovich's music for the Gadfly. During the summer of 1986, I lived with my grandmother in Washington. In the evenings, we would watch Mystery and Masterpiece Theatre together. Masterpiece Theatre was showing Reilly: Ace of Spies, and, appropriately in light of the series' Russian theme, the music in the credits was the Gadfly. Whenever I hear it, I think of my grandmother and our summer together.