BOSS CLAUDIA DAVID DENNIS ELIZABETH EVAN GENNADI GLENN HENRY LACY LYLE MALE_EMPLOYEE MAN MAN_1 MAN_2 MAN_3 MAN_4 NARRATOR OLEG OTHER_MAN OTHER_MEN PAIGE PHILIP PRINCIPAL RECEPTIONIST RENEE RICK SOPHIA STAN TEACHER WOMAN NARRATOR Previously on The Americans. DENNIS Guess who's in town? DENNIS Cia says he's been out of the KGB for three years. OLEG We want you to find out what your wife is doing and tell us. And, if you have to, stop her. The future of our country is being decided right now. PHILIP But I'm sorry, look. I have to talk to you about something. ELIZABETH If you knew how tired I am, you wouldn't still be talking. GENNADI You are the only person I can call. Every little thing I ever do is wrong. SOPHIA I want a divorce, Stan. STAN If you leave, Gennadi is doing dangerous work, and you're a big part of it. SOPHIA You will figure it out. Okay? CLAUDIA The Center wants you to come talk to your old friend, Lyle Rindholm--a general now. You're to try and get something called a lithium-based radiation sensor. LYLE I'm not gonna betray my country. ELIZABETH Okay. Please. No. PAIGE Mom, are you. ELIZABETH Go back to your car. Now! ELIZABETH PHILIP You know this group I go to, sometimes? PAIGE Est? PHILIP It's, uh It's called The Forum now, but yeah. They talk about letting yourself feel bad.or scared, if that's what you're feeling. PAIGE I feel fine. I'm fine. PHILIP It's important not to push it away. It's better to feel bad and go through it than to pretend not to feel anything. Paige, these th-things I saw some bad things, too. It's hard to deal with it all. You have to, but. PAIGE How did you. PHILIP I don't know. I don't know. I had your mom. You do, too. You okay? ELIZABETH Yeah. PAIGE What happened, mom? ELIZABETH What happened.is you left your position and ran straight into the middle of a- PHILIP Hello? HENRY Hey, Dad. PHILIP Henry, what's up? HENRY We won. First loss for Tilton this season. PHILIP That's great! Wasn't Tilton league champions last two seasons? What was the score? HENRY Yeah! Three to two. I got the game-winning assist. PHILIP Well, that's fantastic! Look, I'm just in the middle of a work thing. I'm gonna call you tomorrow, okay? HENRY Yeah, sure. Just not too late, all right? I have an A.P. Calc test Monday morning. PHILIP Great news about the game. Bye. HENRY Thanks, Dad. PAIGE I heard a shot. I didn't know if- I didn't know what to do. ELIZABETH You were supposed to do what you were told to do. PAIGE I thought you were- ELIZABETH You left your position and walked straight into the middle of a meeting. If anybody else on the team did that, they'd be finished. PAIGE I just couldn't- ELIZABETH No! You don't get to talk about what you thought, or how you felt, or anything else. Not now! Do you understand what you did? PHILIP Hey. This isn't great. I think there is a lot to talk about here. ELIZABETH There isn't, Philip. It's very simple you stick to the plan! PAIGE I'm sorry, Mom. I screwed up. ELIZABETH We'll talk more later. PAIGE Is it okay if I stay here tonight? PHILIP Of course. ELIZABETH No, it's not all right. This is a work night. Go home. PHILIP She's pretty much seen it all now. ELIZABETH Not all of it. PHILIP I told her she'd have you to talk to. ELIZABETH What do you think I was just doing? PHILIP Paige said it was a military guy. ELIZABETH Rindholm. PHILIP Rindholm? What are you doing with him after all this time? ELIZABETH He's got access to this thing. Some kind of radiation sensor. PHILIP Had access. ELIZABETH What? PHILIP Had access. ELIZABETH Yeah. PHILIP He was an idealist. What happened? ELIZABETH He was gonna kill me. PHILIP Paige thinks he killed himself. ELIZABETH He did. I didn't have time to work him. I- I moved too fast. There's trouble back home. PHILIP What are you talking about? ELIZABETH With Gorbachev. I don't know what much about it. PHILIP Why do they need the sensor for? ELIZABETH N-- I ca-- I can't. SOPHIA Don't try to change my mind, Stan. STAN I'm not trying to. SOPHIA You are a nice guy, but you always get what you want from me and Gennadi. My friend, Bogdan, he says I'm too much listening to you. I need to listen to my heart. STAN You talked to Bogdan about me? SOPHIA I trust him. STAN If you told him about what you and Gennadi have been doing for us, that would be dangerous for Gennadi. For both of you. SOPHIA I'm not a child, Stan. I did trust Bogdan. And we're Soviets who know how to keep secrets. It is what we do. ELIZABETH I'll see you tonight. PHILIP Okay. RECEPTIONIST St. Edward’s Academy. PHILIP Hi, this is, uh, Philip Jennings calling David Sato back. RECEPTIONIST One moment. DAVID Hello? PHILIP Hi, David. It's Philip Jennings. DAVID Well, thanks for calling me back. Uh, I want to check in with you about this quarter's billing. We haven't gotten payment yet. PHILIP Uh, yeah. Well, I'm really glad you did call because I was about to put a check in the mail, but, uh, I wanted to talk to you first. Um. We've been having this really big boom at work. DAVID Well, that's good. PHILIP Uh, yeah. It's really good, actually. Uh. But it's all happened so fast because the office next door became available, we had to jump on that. I hired a bunch of new people. DAVID Wow. PHILIP Yeah, it's real exciting. Um, but I had to put some real money down to cover the expansion. So what I was wondering, David, is if we could, uh, restructure the, um the tuition payments for this year. DAVID St. Edward’s doesn't really do that. PHILIP No, I know. I get it, you know. I'm in business, and, um, I've had some long-term customers who've made similar requests. But, you know, when I know them like you know me- because we've been at St. Edwards for three years, never been late, never will be again- Uh, you know, it's just been an odd year. Um, and believe me the scholarship helps, but, uh, it's a stretch. DAVID What exactly did you have in mind? PHILIP Just let me get to the holiday season. Um, you know, that's when things really come in for us, and then I'll catch up. DAVID If it's really just this one time. PHILIP It is. DAVID Okay. PHILIP Thank you. Thank you so much. DAVID Please don't tell anyone. If I had to do different payment options for every family. PHILIP Of course. And if you need a really good deal on the Bahamas, call me. We'll take care of you. DAVID Thanks. PAIGE I made a mistake, a really bad one. I get that. ELIZABETH Good. PAIGE I can't get what I saw out of my mind. What happened? ELIZABETH When you meet someone, a source, you're taking a risk. You know that. But you can't ever really know what's going on inside someone's head. I tried to stop him. PAIGE He must have been crazy. ELIZABETH I wouldn't say that. He was troubled. Desperate. PAIGE About what? ELIZABETH He was caught up in something and didn't see a way out. He wasn't thinking straight. The truth is, I miscalculated, too. This shouldn't have happened. PAIGE Who was he? ELIZABETH An American general. And I was trying to get him to give me something that we need to keep our country safe. So for me, no matter how risky it is, it's okay. PAIGE What do you mean it's okay? ELIZABETH That no matter what happens to me, if I'm fighting for something that's that important. PAIGE You don't care if you die? ELIZABETH Well, of course I do. But I'm not afraid. You can't live your life being afraid, Paige. There's no point. You wouldn't do anything. You want to make a difference, you make a difference. PAIGE So, what's gonna happen with- I mean, the police and. ELIZABETH Hopefully they think he was troubled and committed suicide. PAIGE What if they don't? ELIZABETH If they don't, they don't. I don't have all the answers. What I do know is that you put me, yourself, the whole team at risk. That's why we have the procedures. That's why you can't just come running in there when you think things have gone bad. Especially if you think things have gone bad. PAIGE I know, Mom. I, I get it. I really do. ELIZABETH You won't have to be caught in the middle of all this kind of stuff. Your job will be different. But you still have to know how to deal with things like this just in case. PHILIP Thank you so much for coming, and we'll see you again. Take care. Bye. All right, everybody, listen up. Rick, stand up. Stand up. Yesterday you sold two Caribbean couple's cruises. Tell us three of the strategies you used to sell those trips. RICK Well, uh I talked about what an exclusive deal we were offering. PHILIP Value! All right? Value. Value. One. RICK I showed them the deck plan of the ship, pointed out where their cabin was in relation to the stairways, restaurants. PHILIP Images. All right? He's bringing it to life. Great. Two. RICK And, uh. Mm. I upsold them on booking their dining options on board and shore excursions. PHILIP Perfect! Upselling. That's three. Great. Lacy, why are cruises so important to us? LACY I, uh profit? PHILIP No, that's right. The market pays. It gives our clients excellent value, and we get a commission on the whole package. Plus- and I'm sure Rick knows this one- what kind of customers are they? RICK I don't know. PHILIP Think about the Duffs. RICK Oh, they go every spring. PHILIP Repeat customers. If we get them to go once, they will probably go again. Great. Great, Rick. Everybody. Now, can all of you commit right there to using all of these strategies every time you talk to a customer? MALE EMPLOYEE Yes. RICK Yeah. LACY Yes. PHILIP Yes! Okay. Great. Okay. DENNIS So, we don't know anything about this Bogdan? STAN Just that he's some kind of journalist. A senior correspondent. DENNIS When is Gennadi coming back? STAN Four days. If he comes back. Let's get the CIA to pull him out. DENNIS That's better to do here. STAN Four days is a long time. DENNIS By the time they plan it, the chance of something getting screwed up- Look, I'm not happy that he's over there, but waiting it out is our best shot. STAN I don't know. Have we ever gotten one good thing off that X-ray? DENNIS Come on, you're like a goddamn broken record. Stan. STAN It's been three years. How many times you think he can fake a shit at an airport crapper without them figuring it out? And now her with this Bogdan? She says to me, "We know how to keep secrets." Is she kidding me? She has no idea what a target she just put on his back. DENNIS Maybe Bogdan's okay. STAN Yeah, I don't love a guy who works for TAS. DENNIS She works for TAS, she's okay. You hear about the general who committed suicide in the park? STAN Not the place I'd do it. DENNIS No history of depression. One of the key guys working on SDI. You brought him in a few years back, right? STAN Yeah, he shot a guy who accused him of being a Soviet spy. The other guy looked like a complete lunatic. But now he shoots himself. DENNIS Seen our friend from out of town yet? STAN Not yet. DENNIS Soon would be good. MAN That was a donation, $20,000, from a man name S. ELIZABETH First name? MAN I don't know. Father Valiti said, "The Powers That Be won't stop me from using this to rebuild the steps leading to the choir." Everyone thought he'd have trouble with the prior, but he hasn't been touched. ELIZABETH I've been teaching my daughter about us, our culture and history. MAN I teach a class with several children who have never been home at all. It's strange when they have to learn if from books. ELIZABETH I-I actually think she's getting it. MAN I need to learn your tricks. How are things with your husband? ELIZABETH He's not sure I know how to handle her. MAN That's something parents fight about. ELIZABETH Mmm. It's more than that. He has his life and I have mine now. And she's with me. MAN I'd like to see him. Maybe next time he can come. ELIZABETH He's out of it now. He quit. MAN I know. But he can come one time. Tell him. Tell him that I asked for him. ELIZABETH You good? PAIGE Yeah. ELIZABETH You sure? 'Cause I need you okay. PAIGE I'm good. GLENN You guys ready for this? OTHER MEN Oh, yes. / I am. / Yes. WOMAN They're all different kinds and everybody has their favorite. GLENN Chicago has the best pizza. WOMAN Uh. MAN 1 Oh, it's disgusting. It's too much bread. WOMAN See? Anyways, New York has the best pizza. MAN 2 But what is the difference? WOMAN Uh, just try this one. MAN 1 I went to a Russian restaurant the last time I was in New York city. It was very good. MAN 2 What did you have? What do you like? MAN 1 Uh, something with meat and potato. MAN 3 Every dish in Russia starts with meat and potatoes. MAN 4 And smetana, it’s like sour cream. MAN 1 I-I tried some but it's not like home. MAN 1 I still think the Tigers have a chance. GLENN Arden, are you insane? Blasphemy. WOMAN No way. With pitching? You know anything about baseball? MAN 2 No, no. Hockey is much better. Yeah, we've enjoyed the Canadian cup this year. GLENN Didn’t you guys lose? MAN 2 Yes, we did. But to Gretzky and Lemieux, which is very good competition. Man 3 Baseball is good, too. GLENN The twins are going to the World Series. Two words Kirby Puckett. WOMAN Glenn's an optimist. GLENN Ah, I've been rooting for the Minnesota Twins ever since I'm a kid. Way back when they were called the Senators. I bought every baseball card, every poster, every jacket, every jersey I could find. MAN 1 And now you wear that weird Japanese jacket instead. WOMAN MAN 1 Every time Glenn watches a game now, he wears a Japanese baseball jacket. GLENN When I was posted in Japan, my wife and I used to watch this team, the Yakult Swallows, play all the time. I mean, we never understood a single word the announcer said, but watching them play was such a- such a joy. My wife, she bought me their team jacket. MAN 1 You guys really need to see a game while you're here. WOMAN Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm? MAN 1 Let's do something for the World Series, and you can come to my house. MAN 4 Thank you, but no, we cannot. MAN 2 No, but thank you. MAN 3 I will come. If I understand baseball, maybe I will understand America better. MAN 1 I don't know about that, but I mean, it's good to unwind from this stuff. WOMAN Yeah. Lots of work ahead of us before Schultz gets back from Moscow. STAN Gonna invite me in? Everything that went down at Moscow, they told me they were gonna do it. I told them you weren't a traitor and it would get you killed. I threatened them. I said I would expose all kinds of things if they went through with it. That's why they backed off. But I'm sorry it happened in the first place. OLEG That’s it? STAN Yeah. OLEG STAN I'm not in counter-intelligence any more. I work in the criminal investigative division. OLEG What's that? STAN Bank robbery, money laundering, drugs. And you? Urban transport planning. What is that exactly? OLEG Supply, analysis, scheduling, microeconomics of basic transportational infrastruction. Train, Subway. STAN You came all the way from Moscow for that? OLEG Judge Mason's civil engineering department is one of the best. STAN I saw that your course started two and a half weeks ago. If it's so important, why didn't you come when it started? OLEG My father asked me to, but I said no. Then I I needed some time away from my wife. You can understand that, right? STAN What are you doing here, Oleg? OLEG I told you. Do you ever think about her at all? Or all that is in the past for you? STAN I think about her. OLEG No, 'cause I used to think I saw her. In the streets, on subway, parks. And it was, like, shock. STAN Yeah. OLEG They had the tape you made of our conversation. And they said they were gonna use it against me and my family if I didn't cooperate. STAN I'm sorry. I fought them every step of the way. OLEG Bullshit. STAN You are here without a diplomatic passport, Oleg. Whatever you're doing here, don't. CLAUDIA It's peasant food. They know how to survive. We're always having droughts, famines, wars. ELIZABETH My mother used to make pots of this.We'd eat it for weeks. PAIGE You ever got sick of it? ELIZABETH That wasn't an issue. CLAUDIA Vegetables ready? ELIZABETH Mm-hmm. CLAUDIA Mmm. Ah, very good. Beautiful. I'm gonna spread this out, so it gets nice and golden. Lower the flame. We don't want it to burn. After a few minutes, we put it in the crock with meat and garlic and broth. Rough couple of days? PAIGE I'm fine. How is this different from solyanka? CLAUDIA Solyanka is a soup. Zharkoye is a stew. It's thicker. PAIGE Hmm. ELIZABETH Maybe we should teach her how to make golubski. CLAUDIA My grandmother used to make that. PAIGE What's golubski? CLAUDIA Shredded beef in boiled cabbage. ELIZABETH With sour cream on top, which was very hard to get back home. CLAUDIA Will you run to the store and buy us some sour cream while we clean up? PAIGE We have some. CLAUDIA We could use more. Here's a new target and ID. He is a supervisor at the warehouse where Alfian ships and does quality assurance for the sensors. ELIZABETH This really does smell good. CLAUDIA I know. ELIZABETH I brought you something. I know that it's not supposed to be in the house, but- We made zharkoye. PHILIP It smells great. I just ate a whole order of Kung Pao chicken and Lo Mein. ELIZABETH Can't keep it around. PHILIP Wait. That is delicious. ELIZABETH We cook, Claudia and Paige and me. And we watch movies from home and listen to music and talk. It feels- And then I walk out of there and it just hits me in the face. Here. PHILIP Yeah. ELIZABETH I hate it, Philip. PHILIP Honestly-- the way things are going- I think in a couple of years, we'll have Stan over here for zharkoye. ELIZABETH What are you talking about? PHILIP Things are changing back home. Opening up. A-And it's not just politics, it's- It's the young people. It's music. It's-it's different. I mean, they're talking about opening a Pizza Hut in Moscow. You see the papers. ELIZABETH What, The Washington Post ? You know, all this talk, Perestroika and Glasnost, the Americans eat it up. They want us to be just like them. I don't want to be like them. And neither do the people back home. PHILIP You haven't talked to anyone back home in over 20 years. ELIZABETH Neither have you. RENEE So I told him, "So, why don't you let one bridge manager do it?" STAN Mm-hmm. RENEE It's not gonna open the floodgates. Retention’s at two percent since the last year. That's a lot stronger than your seeing industry line. He was thrilled. STAN Oh, that's great, honey. RENEE Yeah. It's nice of you to say that. STAN What do you mean? RENEE I know it's boring for you. I mean, it is boring. STAN No, it isn't. RENEE No, it's okay. You don't have to pretend. The truth is, I think I'm jealous of how much you care. About your job, what you do. I wish I cared half as much about my work. STAN Well, you've been there a long time. RENEE Too long. I used to like it. Well, I thought I did. I just wish. STAN What? RENEE I could do something that made a difference. For our country. Doesn't that make you feel proud? STAN Sometimes. A lot of the time. But, you know, what you do is important, too. RENEE Right. Can I tell you something? STAN Yeah, of course. RENEE Promise you won't laugh. STAN I promise. RENEE I'm giving it a lot of thought, and I just- I think it's so great how Philip and Elizabeth work together at the travel agency. STAN Well, I don't know how together they are. I mean, she's always off dealing with her big corporate clients, and he's. RENEE Yeah, but, I mean, they always have stuff to talk about. There's never that, "Ah, how was your day?" and the other person's pretending to be interested. STAN I'm not pretending. RENEE I know. I'm just saying. I think what I'd really like to do is be an FBI agent. I think I'd be really good at it, too. STAN I think you would. RENEE Really? STAN Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, the cutoff age for new agents is 37. RENEE Well, they must make exceptions. You know everybody. Maybe they can make an exception. STAN Renee, that's not how it works, honey. I'm sorry. RENEE Hmm. ELIZABETH Tracy Huffs. EVAN Evan. ELIZABETH Come on in. EVAN Thanks. ELIZABETH And, um, I need to show you this. Can I see yours, please? EVAN Oh. Sure. ELIZABETH Thank you. And thank you for coming. Please, have a seat. You're here because the Alfian security and compliance department is conducting a security audit. You're not here because you've done anything wrong, or because you've made any mistake whatsoever. We're here to evaluate and make recommendations, and that's all. Before we get started, I need you to sign this confidentiality agreement. If you could just sign and initial here and also here. Many, but not all of the people you work with, will also be asked to participate in this security audit over the next month. It is imperative that they not know about it in advance, and that you not discuss this with anyone. Even those you think may have already met with us. Thank you. Now, the purpose of our meeting here today is just to identify any lapses that may exist with the security procedures at the warehouse. Or in those cases where the procedures are very well designed, any ways in which they are being followed. Please speak freely. No one will be penalized. We're here to identify the problems and then solve them. I'm gonna take an occasional note, if that's all right. EVAN Sure. ELIZABETH Let's start with receiving. EVAN Okay. STAN Gennadi Bystrov? GENNADI Yes. STAN I understand you want political asylum. OTHER MAN We have diplomatic immunity. STAN I'm not here to arrest you. Mr. Bystrov has requested political asylum. GENNADI Yes. I want asylum. STAN This way. DENNIS Sophia Bystrova. BOSS What is this, sir? What do you want? DENNIS Sophia Bystrova, I understand you want political asylum. BOSS How dare you? You have no right to be here. BOSS Get out, you. Get out. I'm calling our embassy. DENNIS Sophia Bystrova, I understand you want political asylum. SOPHIA Okay, I'm coming. BOSS I call embassy! TEACHER For all the gold medal readers, you get two gold stars. PRINCIPAL Excuse me. Ilia. Come with me, please. And bring all your things. GENNADI What happened? STAN Oh, Gennadi, I'm sorry. Sophia. She told somebody. GENNADI What? W-What do you mean? STAN Have a seat. It was a guy at TAS. She says she trusts him, but we couldn't risk something happening to you. GENNADI A man? Who? STAN A guy named Bogdan. You know him? I'm sorry. GENNADI You think she's. STAN I don't know. I- I have no idea, but she says she wants a divorce. GENNADI Oh, she says this all the time. I need to talk to her. STAN But she doesn't want to talk right now. You'll both stay in different places while we figure out relocation plans. GENNADI What about Ilia? If she divorce me, I can still see them, no? STAN Well, you'll be in separate locations. You won't know where she is, she won't know where you are. GENNADI Please talk to her. STAN Gennadi, I can't. It's not my. GENNADI Please, Stan. You are the only one who can talk to her. Fix this. I want if we go, we go together. Tell her I love her. I love Ilia. I'm alone without them here. Alone. STAN I'll try. EVAN But that's really only when we get the military great stuff. Other than that, that room pretty much goes unused. But right over here is where they do quality assurance, and that's before shipping obviously. Uh, but when things move from quality assurance to shipping, you do sometimes get uncleared people having a look right here and here. I'm not saying it happens a lot. I'm not saying it even matters, but you're asking. ELIZABETH This is exactly what we need to hear. EVAN But it's so easy to fix, too. ELIZABETH This has been so helpful, Mr. Erkhart. Thank you so much. And I just wanted to remind you not to talk to anyone at work about this. When people know in advance about this kind of audit, it completely skews our results. EVAN Oh, I get it. I bet my girlfriend already knows about it. She works in security. ELIZABETH Oh. Who's your girlfriend? EVAN Uh, Teresa Vasquez. ELIZABETH Teresa. She's great. Please. EVAN Thanks.