Its not about blighting Soviet crops but about breeding a pest-resistant stalk of wheat.
Stobert just wants to end world hunger?
No more buying grain from the west.
Credit: Patrick Harbron/FX
We could make it right.
The mission will continue.
Youre spread thin, Gabriel acknowledges.
Theres something wrong with me, she answers.
Its a long career.
And theres nothing wrong with you.
Ever, he tells her.
Back home, she briefs Philip on the meeting.
Gabriel asked me how you took the news about the guy in the lab, she says.
Are you… fine?
Ill do my job.
Ive always done it, he says.
My father used to bring home all this stuff.
We didnt have anything, Philip tells his wife.
Now we have everything.
Its so strange sometimes.
Its a brief moment, but seems to be set-up for a future plotline.
(Everything in this episode seems that way.)
They met him at the airport, Gabriel reports to his fellow handler, Claudia.
Theyre going to give him his old job back.
Still, hes haunted.
The look on his face when he left… Philip gives that look sometimes, when hes troubled.
Is Philip troubled now?
I dont think hes particularly happy, Gabriel says.
Sending back the boy feels wrong to him.
So does keeping it secret.
Ive never lied to them before.
Hes lied toyou, Claudia says.
You did the right thing.
Later, we see Gabriel walking at night.
He goes to the Lincoln Memorial.
He looks across the reflecting pool and… reflects.
The Washington Monument rises in the distance.
The man explains a little about how palms are greased and food is supplied to one group or another.
But he wont name names.
If I answer that, Im finished.
You dont know who youre dealing with, he says.
you might sit in a cell until you give us what we need, Ruslan says.
He hasnt told his parents, who are barely around.
Stan seems to enjoy being in on the secret.
Elizabeth all but slams the door in her face.
Im left wondering: Who is this woman?
What purpose does this scene serve?
(My impulse is to think, Is she KGB?
but that never seems to be the case.)
Being nice would just be a waste of her time.
Going back to Moscow.
They demand to know why, but he doesnt seem to have the answer they want.
Im just ready to go home.
You dont need me anymore.
You have each other.
Maybe hes trying to get them to join him.
Once they start worrying about someone, they never stop.
He dials up the alarm a little.
To be honest, Im worried.
Youve seen too much.
Youve done too much.
But Elizabeth and Philip dont seem like theyre going to change course.
Ill miss you terribly, he says.
But no one ever comes.
In Washington, Elizabeth takes the first steps on her mission to steal files from the psychiatrist.
Inside the appointment, she actually tells the doctor a redacted version of events from her own life.
Like Philip, she needs to get some things off her chest.
Theres a new family living in the house.
Back home, Philip tells her more stories about being haunted by his childhood which he barely remembers.
She urges him to discuss it with Gabriel.
They trust him, and he may know more details about Philips family.
Turns out, he does.
Philips father wasnt a logger, as his mother told him.
He was a guard at a prison camp where detainees performed logging as forced labor.
Did he ever kill anyone, people who were trying to escape?
I have no idea.
I never saw records like that.
Some guards were cruel.
Some were kind, Gabriel said.
I didnt know your father.
So thats why you came for me?
We were always on the lookout for talented people.
You were talented, Gabriel says.
The fact that you came from a trustworthy family, that was good.
He tries to convince Philip that whatever violence his father may have committed is irrelevant.
Those were different times.
Its hard to explain.
Who knows what your father did.
He had his job.
A lot of things happened.
You think it was his fault?
We were all nobodies.
Back home, Elizabeth finds Paige reading Karl Marx.
They assign you that for social studies?
Pastor Tim gave it to me, Paige says.
Elizabeth wants to know what she thinks.
I actually agree with what he says.
Except he doesnt like religion, the girl answers.
Nothing in my life made me feel as good as getting baptized.
Elizabeth says she readDas Kapitalwhen she was young, too.
My whole country came out of those ideas.
Whats it like there?
We have our problems.
But everybody is in it together, Elizabeth says.
You havent been there in a long time, her daughter replies.
Thats what your dad says.
When Philip gets home, he asks Elizabeth if she knows anything about the labor camps.
I know they existed.
Im not sure why my mother didnt tell me, he says.
Maybe she didnt like what he did.
I didnt know anything.
My own parents, I didnt know anything about them at all.
Welcome to Henrys world.
But Stans blackmail of the CIA to stop the harassment of Burov seems to have worked.
No one is coming for him.
He goes to this roof, regards his city, and burns the letter and the cassette tape.
Back in the U.S., Paige is being taken for a ride by her parents.
Theyre taking her to meet one of their dearest friends.
As the show ends, Paige reaches out and shakes the hand of a kindly old man.
Just as Gabriel is ready to say goodbye, he gets one last hello.
