They’re both newcomers.
Tuan and his family just moved from Michigan, while Pasha and his family have defected from Moscow.
He is struggling, not the least of which with the language.
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“Okay, understand,” Pasha says.
“Speak, not so good.”
Finally, we see someone we recognizePhilip and Elizabeth.
Now, we see that they have doubled down on the American dream.
They have a new mission and a new family.
Pasha doesn’t have much to say to them.
But we’re skipping ahead to maybe season 35 ofThe Americans.
But it turns out that worry is over nothing.
(We can see the threads of this season coming togethera battle over nourishment.
“Don’t know how you people let a guy like that get out.
You should have put a bullet in his head a long time ago.”
Tuan loves it when a plan comes together.
If I could do it all over again.
I’d do it differently."
She’s the one who left the documents and money for him.
“I don’t know what will happen if you go to your father,” she writes.
“But I always believed he was a good man.”
“They’re still here.”
“Nothing scares those two,” she says.
“Everythingscares those two,” Gabriel corrects.
He tells the couple they are fortunate not to work for the Soviet airline.
“The planes are dirty, the passengers are unhappy, and the planes crash,” he says.
“It’s just like everything there: dirty, unhappy, and crashing.”
His wife, Evgheniya, tries to hush him.
“It’s the truth.
You want food, you stand in line,” he says.
“You would not believe what you see in Soviet Union.
We shared an apartment with three families.
We share bathroom… toilet… You want phone?
You pay a bribe.
You wait for three years.”
Philip tries to change the subject: “What did you do there?”
“Complain,” Evgheniya says.
“Same, like here.”
“You hear me complain about America?”
“And I tell them everything about this broken system in the Soviet Union.”
“Tuan really struggled in the beginning, too.
You just have to be patient,” Elizabeth says.
“[Pasha] will figure it out.
You will, too.”
“Sorry he had to wait in line to eat,” Elizabeth says.
“He’s old enough to remember having nothing to wait in line for.”
“My mother used to make a soup from a few onions and nothing else.
It was really just hot water,” Philip adds.
“After the war, my mother always said she wasn’t hungry.
But I ate everything.
She was so thin,” Elizabeth says.
There’s a silence.
“We’ll get another chance to go home.
It just wasn’t the right time,” Philip tells her.
“What’s the right time?”
Elizabeth asks, but there’s no answer.
They don’t need the FBI counter-intelligence agent as an in-law.
Also, he’s thrilled about Paige and Matthew.
Paige reveals she can’t sleep at night after learning about her parents' secret.
“I have nightmares.
I keep seeing that guy and that knife in his neck.
Do you think about it?”
she asks her mother.
Chances are, Elizabeth needs to be reminded of who exactly this person was.
The man behind the counter says, ‘We don’t have fish.
The place where they don’t have meat is across the street.'"
“Why do we even have a joke like that?
We should be able to feed our own people a hundred times over,” the KGB officials says.
“But we can’t because there’s corruption.
Bribery, favors, double-dealing, fraud.”
Burov’s new job will be to investigate these wealthy beneficiaries of the Soviet Union’s starvation problem.
Since he comes from a powerful family, Burov is warned he may know some of them.
“Can I assume you are a KGB officer first?”
“Of course,” Burov replies.
“We doubted him.
He killed himself for us,” Philip says.
“He’s a hero,” Elizabeth says.
Gabriel reveals that even though William is dead, “He has one last job.”
At last, they’ll have their Lassa virus.
He tumbles down and lands face-first on William’s body, slicing open his gloved hand in the process.
He looks up helplessly at Philip and Elizabeth.
“It doesn’t hurt,” he says.
It’ll be okay.
He should climb out of the hole and bandage that hand.
As he starts up the rope ladder, she draws her pistol and blows his brains out.
Hans tumbles into the hole, where he will spend eternity face to face with William.
