But the job is overwhelming, and they cant do it with just the two of them.
They dont think theyll save their target.
Theyre not even sure theyll survive themselves.
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So Philip volunteers to rejoin the cause and help.
Is something going on?
Turns out, his spider-sense has been tingling for a while.
How hard can they possibly work?
Philip decides to make up another story, although its not really made up.
Its just not whats bothering him.
Ive been wanting to tell you… he begins.
The business is falling apart.
And I think it might be going under.
He tells Stan hes embarrassed.
And Stan buys it.
For a little while.
Philip arrives in Chicago, and its the most tender he and Elizabeth have been in a long time.
I feel a lot better about our chances with you here, she says.
Philip wants to flush the pill, but she wont allow it.
We dont know the plan to rescue the Russian agent, so the operation plays out with more suspense.
Mothers expecting you, Elizabeth says.
He hurries from his car into the van, and the FBI takes a few moments to catch on.
They pick up fast, though.
Before Elizabeth and Philip can get far, the FBI agent calls in the extraction.
Its an ugly death.
In a parking garage later, Philip and Elizabeth dispose of their dead.
The Russian agent they dont need to worry about.
The FBI was on to him.
But Marilyn…poor Marilyn.
Its a sickening end to a nauseating failed mission.
Philip and Elizabeth are disgusted and depressed.
Back at the FBI, Aderholt is incensed.
All of it, he tells Stan.
When Stan hears it was a man and woman who escaped, he begins to put the pieces together.
That night, he goes home, but crosses the street to Philip and Elizabeths house.
He picks the lock, he prowls around.
But…he doesnt find anything.
When Elizabeth gets home, she has to leave for another job.
The nurse, who is getting drawing lessons from dying Erika Haskard.
She sketched the airplane window on her flight back, and offers it up as her homework.
Theres a moment when its not you seeing it.
This seems to haunt Elizabeth.
All shes doing is getting in her own way.
Later, she meets with Paige and tells her the mission was a debacle.
We were in a car, the FBI…Marilyn was shot, she says.
But Paige is relieved to hear her father made it.
I thought you said this doesnt happen a lot, Paige says.
And it does, her mother answers.
Its a commitment you have to make for life.
Is Paige willing to give up friends, and relationships, and your life, if you have to?
I dont really have any friends, Paige says.
Okay, Elizabeth says.
Then its time for Paige to apply for an internship at the State Department.
Its a testament to theThe Americans, that happy moments like that only make the darkness more impenetrable.
