“There’s trouble back home.”
Paige witnessed the violent death of one of Elizabeth’s contacts.
(Almost pathetically, he plies her with some EST self-help techniques.)
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Nevermind that, one way or another, Paige was going to figure out what happened.
“It’s a work night.”
After she’s gone, Philip feels around the edges of the night’s mission.
There’s trouble in another home as well.
Sofia and Gennadi, the Russian courier who is cooperating with the FBI, are in tumult.
The red alarm is going off in Stan’s head.
“We’re Soviets,” she says.
“We know how to keep secrets.”
Stan isn’t sure he wants to keep working these two anyway.
But at least the informants are safe.
And Gennadi wants help winning back his ladylove.
Elsewhere, we learn that the Jennings family is having money troubles.
Philip gets a call from Henry’s school, where he makes a bargain to delay some tuition payments.
This leads to Philip pumping things up at work, putting on a David Brent-style awkward pep talk.
This doesn’t seem like what he wants to be doing with his life.
Elizabeth and Paige have a heart to heart.
“I made a mistake; a really bad one.
I can’t get what I saw out of my mind,” Paige says.
“I miscalculated, too,” Elizabeth concedes.
“It shouldn’t have happened.”
Paige wants to know if her mother is ever scared.
“You don’t care if you die?”
“Of course I do.
But I’m not afraid,” Elizabeth tells her.
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Elsewhere, Stan goes to meet Oleg.
But Oleg tells him they sent a tape of his previous collaboration anyway.
He’s not convinced Stan had his back.
Stan isn’t convinced Oleg is really here for a transportation seminar.
“What are you doing here Oleg?”
Then the ghost of Nina is summoned.
“Do you ever think about her at all.
Or is all that in the past for you?”
“I think about her,” Stan says.
“I used to think I saw her.
Whatever you’re doing here don’t.”
There’s a supervisor at the warehouse.
“This really does smell good,” Elizabeth says of the zharkoye.
“I know,” Claudia says, sadly.
Back at the Jennings house, Elizabeth brings a small container of zharkoye for Philip.
To maintain cover, they shouldn’t have such things in the house.
But if he eats it fast…
“It smells great,” he says, looking lovestruck.
“But I just ate a whole order of kung pao chicken and lo mein.”
“Well…we can’t keep it around,” Elizabeth says, heading for the garbage disposal.
This seems unnecessary, like an overreaction.
Is anyone going to notice the leftover stew in the Jennings family kitchen?
Dumping it seems more like an act of contempt.
“That is delicious,” Philip says, taking one and only one bite.
“Things are changing at home.
“All this talk of perestroika and glasnost.
They eat it up.
The Americans want us to be just like them…I don’t want to be like them.”
It’s absurd, but for the sake of household peace, Stan says it’s a tip-top idea.
The cutoff for new agents is 37.
The next day, Elizabeth has a meeting with the warehouse worker whose name she got from Claudia.
The encounter is under the guise of a security audit.
He tells her he won’t say a word, but guesses his girlfriend already knows.
She works in security.
As the man leaves, Elizabeth seizes him from behind and chokes him to death.
She is getting tired of having to kill innocent people.
Elsewhere, Philip descends some steps in a dark park.
He’s in disguise.
Elizabeth now has her own security flaw.
