- Elizabeth and Philip come together to deal with a mission gone wrong, but struggle to reconcile their ideologies; Stan welcomes a Soviet defector to America; Nina acclimates to her new living arrangements.
- A member of the KGB Institute to defect to America and FBI Agent Stan Beeman is in charge of protecting her. An armed Oleg confronts Stan in an alley to answer for Nina. Philip meets with the Afghan chief, Yousef after he and Elizabeth help him to cover up Annalise's murder. Elizabeth and Philip reunite with Gabriel, who senses the new closeness in their marriage and also the tension. Elizabeth confides in Gabriel about her feelings regarding Paige and the Centre/KGB; Paige has definitely shown a decided interest in political causes since she somehow became involved with the church and youth ministry. Nina gets both a Belgian cellmate and an unexpected Russian visitor. Elizabeth is upset about the list of CIA Afghan names lost in her skirmish with Agent Aderholt and Chief Gaad of the FBI. Determined to repossess the CIA Afghan list, she persuaded Philip to order Yousef to call a meeting, causing Philip and Elizabeth to engage in risky surveillance.—LA-Lawyer
- Nina is in a Soviet prison. Annelise is dead. Philip assures Yousaf he can make this all go away, stashing him in another hotel room and leaving to call Elizabeth and ask her for some help. Before Elizabeth leaves the house, Paige asks her if she wonders whether Philip is having an affair because "he's gone a lot at night." She also tells Elizabeth that she and Philip look out for each other "more than us," referring to herself and Henry, but she says "it's a good thing." Elizabeth leaves.
Yousaf finally asks Philip who he is, and Philip simply replies, "My people are dying in Afghanistan."
A large crate is delivered to Stan and some other agents. Inside is an exhausted woman who's been breathing through an oxygen tank. Stan welcomes her to the United States. It's Zinaida Preobrazhenskaya from the U.S. Canada Institute, whose protection is of utmost importance to federal authorities because the KGB is going to want to send a message around her defection.
Meanwhile, Philip and Elizabeth take to the chilling work of disposing of Annelise's body.
Another woman who doesn't speak Russia joins her in the cell. Nina shakes her head when the woman asks in Russian if she speaks French but nods for English. The woman introduces herself as "Evi from Belgium." Nina says nothing and Evi begins to cry and wail. Nina climbs under the covers to try to block her out.
Zinaida explains that the U.S. Canada Institute, which is publicly a non-government organization, is really responsible for reporting to Soviet leadership on all aspects of geopolitical significance regarding the United States and Canada.
Elizabeth stays awake at night, remembering as a young girl when she begged her mother to go to the war memorial to celebrate her father. Her mother tells her that her father was shot by his own side for being a deserter, and that the memorial is not for him.
Zinaida holds a press conference about her defection, explaining that she could no longer support the Soviet efforts because of the brutal war in Afghanistan.
Yousaf and Philip talk about Annelise and how special of a person she was, and Yousaf says he doesn't know what happened and why he killed her. Philip tells Yousaf he needs names of people working in the CIA's Afghan groups. Philip urges Yousaf to set up a meeting with any people he knows who might have names.
Oleg walks up on Stan in a dark alley and pulls a gun on him, telling him he's going to have to pay for Nina's situation. Oleg gets more angry when Stan says he loved Nina and would do anything he can to help. With Oleg threatening to shoot him, Stan turns his back and walks away. Oleg disappears.
Philip and Elizabeth get into another argument about whether Paige should get into the spy game. Philip doesn't want Paige breaking apart bodies and putting them in suitcases -- or ending up in one -- but Elizabeth feels like Paige could land a desk job at the CIA or NSA.
From a pay phone, Stan calls his wife's new home -- where the answering machine greeting is done by her new man, Arthur -- and leaves them a message just to say hi. He winds up going to see Sandra and tells her about nearly being shot. He says she's the only person he wanted to tell. She tells him she's not coming back just because he almost got shot, but she's glad he's safe. When he moves in for a kiss, she backs away.
Philip suggests to Elizabeth that she could go back to the Soviet Union to see her mother, but Elizabeth tells him they can't go back.
Elizabeth visits Gabriel, who tells her that her mother aged well and is grateful that Elizabeth is "making a difference in the world." She starts to tell him "things are hard with Paige."
Nina finally talks to her cellmate, who insists that she's innocent. Nina tells her "this isn't a prison for innocent people."
Philip and Elizabeth stake out Yousaf's meeting with one of his contacts, and when Yousaf gets into the car and drives away with the man, Elizabeth takes off to follow them despite Philip's objection. But he soon follows.
They end up parked outside a bar where Yousaf is meeting with his CIA contacts. They surreptitiously snap photos of the license plates on cars in the parking lot after disagreeing a bit about whether they should go in.
Oleg and Tatiana talk strategy about "the defector," who will be giving interviews with "Meet the Press" and Newsweek. Oleg wonders why she's asked him to help on this and she says "propaganda is more important than anything."
Back at the office, Stan and Zinaida confirm her upcoming interviews and she says she'd like to go see some sites around D.C., but Stan says security isn't tight enough for that.
Back in the Soviet Union, Nina is brought to a room to meet Igor Pavlovich Burov, minister of railways -- Oleg's father. He immediately tells her he can see why Oleg fell for her. He tells her that Oleg wants him to use his influence to save her. She asks him to send a message to Oleg, that she "wasn't pretending with him."
In the travel agency office, Elizabeth brings up the Paige thing with Philip again, saying it's "not just going to go away." She reminds him she had a week to decide when they told her about joining. She told her mother, who told her to go and serve her country. "When I was called, my mother didn't hesitate," she says. Philip sits back in a chair and says nothing, looking stunned.
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