Elizabeth wants Philip to set up Kimmy for a ransom.
There has always been a body count on this show, but its usually strangers who meet untimely ends.
Chances are, were going to start losing people we know very soon.
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That brings us to Sofia and Gennadi, the Russian defectors nicknamed Mr. and Mrs. Teacup by the FBI.
We open with them using Stan as the trail of breadcrumbs that will lead to them.
One problem is that Gennadi and Sofia have a very unhappy marriage.
Stan meets with Sofia to tell her about how theyll be given new identities in Oklahoma.
She wants to know if Gennadi will be joining them.
Stan is happy to hear this.
He wants to keep them together.
He thinks you are his only friend in America.
Maybe well go somewhere new, she says.
Stan also spends some time hanging with Gennadi, watching hockey.
Now the Soviets have eyes on both Mr. and Mrs. Teacup.
But really, they only care about eliminating him.
Hes the courier, hes the famous ex-hockey player, hes the traitor.
They dont care about Sofia or her young son all that much.
Thats another problem that will need to be eliminated.
You shouldnt talk to him about that stuff, Elizabeth says.
I dont know why you dont want to know.
You wouldnt believe what these interns have access to.
Hes walking around with classified documents.
I dont want you to do this.
Back home, Elizabeth thaws a little to Philip.
We told Paige about the war.
How many people we lost.
What did she say?
I think she got it.
They start to kiss.
Things have been so awkward between them that this is a major breakthrough.
Philip and Elizabeth fall back on the bed.
Its been a while since that happened, too.
Afterward, she confides a little more in him.
One of our negotiators has been meeting secretly with a CIA officer.
Theres more: I need your help.
Her father is a CIA officer, and Philip has been bugging his briefcase for years.
Youd have to meet Kimmy in Greece.
Bring her over to Bulgaria.
We would pick her up with drugs and hold her.
Tell me what I need to know.
Philip recoils from this idea.
There has to be another way.
Everything I have been working on.
It all comes down to this.
All you have to do is go on a trip.
Shes just a kid, Philip says.
This has always bothered him.
Lying to a teenage girl is one thing, but he has never wanted to do more.
Not anymore, Elizabeth responds.
Shes young, but Kimmy is now an adult.
Shell be there less than 24 hours.
Then youre done with him and done with her and all of it, Elizabeth says.
I havent asked for much, anything really, but I need this one.
Cut to a bar: Paige is there hanging out with some college guys.
You said it was like getting jerked off for the first time.
Youre scared, you dont know what to expect.
Then you just…relax.
When Paige is unimpressed, the jerk friend tells her shes not that hot anyway.
But before she can leave, the jerk grabs her wrist.
Her training kicks in and she instinctively flips him.
Flips him for real.
Speaking of college kids, Philip is in disguise, meeting with Kimmy.
Hes laying the groundwork for setting her up in Bulgaria.
They kiss for the first time.
Was that out of line?
No, I liked it, she says.
Shes been waiting for this, as we know.
He has always been the one keeping his distance.
But now, as Elizabeth told him, Kimmy is not a kid anymore.
The kiss leads to something more, and we see them having sex in her room.
She actually looks happy, but Philips face still looks anguished.
But there is an age cut-off for agents.
(And this is a bizarre idea anyway.)
He makes it up to her by suggesting she do something else at the bureau.
Id have to take a pay cut, she says.
Ill think about it.
What is the point of Renee?
Is this going somewhere?
Why hasnt it gotten there yet?
I heard you were in town.
I had to see for myself, she says.
Things are cordial at first, but then she gets to the point.
What brings you back?
Tatiana is no fool.
It would help me a lot if you would tell me why youre here.
You dont believe me?
You told the Americans about my operation.
I told [Moscow]…I thought it was you.
Tatiana, this is crazy, Oleg protests.
I couldve been killed.
But his outrage is unconvincing.
She says she lost the chance to become the head of the Rezidentura because of him.
He tells her to move on.
Hes not here for us.
And hes not loyal, she says.
When Elizabeth finds out Paige used her skills in a public display of self-defense, she is furious.
It is better to absorb some mistreatment rather than risk exposure.
Elizabeth also tells her to stop working that congressmans intern for information.
You dont tell me who I should and shouldnt sleep with, Paige says.
If you like them, fine, Elizabeth says.
But she doesnt want her working men for information that way.
Paige is still a little naive.
Why would I sleep with them if I didnt like them?
her father says, falling face first into the conversation.
After Paige leaves, Elizabeth confesses: You were right.
She isnt cut out for this.
Elizabeth has a mission that night.
And its going to end in a bloody mess.
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Elizabeth is stalking Gennadi.
This time, she climbs the fire escape and slips in through the window to Gennadis kitchen.
But hes not alone.
Stan successfully reunited Mr. and Mrs. Teacup.
Sofia enters the kitchen, and Elizabeth hides.
Then she decides to sneak back out through the window and abandon the strike.
Thats when Gennadi walks in.
Elizabeth has to do it.
She knifes him in the throat, and he dies horrifically.
Even worse, before Elizabeth can get back out through the window, Sofia enters the room.
Elizabeth had hoped to spare her, but now she has to die, too.
She suffers even worse knifed in the back, hurled to the ground.
Elizabeth slashes open her throat.
Goodbye, Mrs. Teacup.
But then…theres someone else in the apartment.
Sofia and Gennadis young son is sitting in the living room watching television.
And if the child sees her…
Elizabeth backs away.
She slips down the hall and leaves the apartment.
Philip is in another part of town, visiting Paige at her own place.
He is trying to smooth things over after her clash with her mother, but Paige is defiant.
I dont think Im the same as you, Dad.
I know youre not into what me and mom do, but I am.
Philip came to comfort, but now hes going to teach a lesson.
So come at me.
I want to see what you learned.
We dont have pads, Paige says.
Yeah, there arent really pads in the real world.
Come at me and hit me, he says.
And Ill be okay.
She takes a few tentative jabs, and he slaps them away easily.
Then she swings, and he dodges.
Then he hurls her across the room, up against a wall, and has her in a chokehold.
When he releases her, he isnt even out of breath.
Not bad, he says.
The next day, its time to drink.
Paige gets a tip in how to stay sober: Drink a shot of olive oil.
How much can you drink and stay sober after doing that?
Lets find out, Claudia says.
Then the three women sit around telling stories of awkwardness and desperation, a.k.a.
sex stories from the starving Soviet Union.
Back home, Stan drops by the Jennings house.
Like the pre-Renee days?
These two people got killed.
Our job was to protect them.
We were supposed to be relocate them.
We promised to keep them safe.
In front of their own kid.
Philip freezes at the sink.
He was 7-years-old, Stan says.
Finds his mom and dad covered in blood.
We dont know what Philip is thinking, but we can guess from the episodes final scene.
Hes at a phone booth, talking to Kimmy.
Do you remember when I said I was stuck?
I cant meet you in Greece.
I just cant do it, he says.
Then he says they wont be able to hang out again at all.
You and me, our friendship.
You need someone your own age, he says.
She pleads with him, but Philip is determined to end this.
He wont put another kid even if shes not a kid anymore in danger.
Theres one last thing: Go to Greece and stay in Greece, he warns.
If someone tries to get you to go to a communist country, dont go.
With that, Philip becomes a traitor to the Soviet Union.
