Martha gets an unexpected visitor.
Cut to Kimberlys birthday, and Philip cutting a cake.
Talk gets a little wistful getting older, having a family.
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This has been on Philips mind a lot.
He actually has multiple families to screw up now.
Does Tuan ever say anything about any girls to you?
I just think hes lonely, Elizabeth says.
Shes planning to go spend the night at their house with him.
Give him a sense of belonging.
Just then, they get a call: Its the Center, with a doctors appointment for Philip.
One of Gabriels other operatives needs to report some information.
I could be next on their list.
Any of us could be a target.
Let us use the tape against him and get him working with us against them.
When Elizabeth goes to spend some family time with Tuan, she finds the house empty.
Meanwhile, Philip listens to his latest recording from Kimberlys father.
That gruesome incident he was discussing?
Its not from artillery.
On the tape, a group of Mujahideen died in a hemorrhagic fever.
Maybe it wasnt about protecting us after a nuclear attack.
Maybe they just wanted to use it in Afghanistan, Philip tells Elizabeth when she returns.
We dont know if its the same virus we gave them, she says, forever the optimist.
Its a hell of a coincidence if it isnt, he says.
She has bad news for him, too.
Tuan being gone at 3 a.m. feels wrong.
They decide to hit him with some surveillance to see what their son is actually up to.
Gabriel would have known the context.
Will I see you again then?
the priest asks when Philip departs.
Only if something urgent comes up.
The new person who is coming to work with you should be here in two to three months.
When I hear things… Im sorry I just cant meet with you on a regular basis, Philip says.
He has too many identities to juggle as is.
I will pray for you, the priest tells him.
Okay, Philip responds.
You should try it.
I keep hearing that, Philip answers.
It is a great solace, the priest says.
Especially when you live this kind of life.
News about Gaads killers has weighed on Beeman, and so he goes for a visit with Gaads widow.
She says its nice of him to come.
Not one of you from the office has been by, or called.
Thats awful, he says.
I guess were not the best at that.
After some pleasantries, she gets to the point: Did you just come to visit?
We have a better sense now of what happened in Bangkok.
It was them, he tells her.
But wait, theres more…
And now, I have something on someone else.
But the department wants me to use it to get back at them, Stan says.
Thing is, this guy didnt do anything.
I dont see putting him at risk to go after other people.
Revenge isnt that important, and I dont think it would be to Frank.
Gaads widow considers this.
Then she hits him with a line thats chillier than a Siberian gulag.
He would want revenge.
His parents cant believe he doesnt want to live with them anymore.
But they barely live with him as it is.
Lets go back to Russia, where an old friend awaits …
MARTHA!
Martha, Martha, Martha… (to paraphrase Jan Brady).
Last we saw her, she was browsing the empty shelves of one of Moscows finest grocery stores.
Now shes frying onions for her baked potato dinner-for-one.
Theres a knock at the door: Gabriel!
Shes not exactly thrilled to see him.
Hows your Russian coming?
Its hard, she answers.
Your life will get better when your Russian improves.
He promises her a good translating job when she can speak fluently.
Do my parents know where I am?
Clark thinks about you, Martha.
He wanted to send you a letter, but its not allowed.
Hes the reason I talked to your parents.
He wants whats best for you.
All of this is actually true.
Whatever else Gabriel is, hes not a liar.
Whats best for me?
I understand everything now, Gabriel.
All of it, Martha says, shaking her head.
Gabriel has no other news for her.
Hes just checking in on her well-being.
you’re able to go, she tells him.
And hey dont come back again.
Thank you for cooperating at your apartment, one of the PGU officials says.
We need the names of every foreigner you had contact with in America.
Both professionally and personally.
Burov says theyre all in his reports.
The reports wouldnt have every casual encounter.
Nightclubs, restaurants, bars… Give it some thought.
Burov insists he couldnt possible remember the names of every single individual he encountered.
Write down whatever names you might.
Give it back to us with in the next 48 hours.
They also question him about Nina Krilova, who was executed last season.
You should know if you dont know already, Burov tells them.
Nina Krilova and I were involved with each other.
Were you angry about what happened to Nina Krilova?
Burov, much like Gabriel, hasnt lied at all in this encounter.
Im still angry about it, he says.
What could I do?
Burov is released, and he comes home to find his parents bickering.
His mother leaves the room, and Burov tells his father, I know she was in a camp.
I dont want to think about it.
I dont want you to think about it.
Every family has a story like this.
She got out… we had you, your brother.
You think she was the same person when she came out?
He shakes his head.
I didnt even recognize her.
This part was heartbreaking: I never saw her again, that girl I knew.
In the camp, she… she… a lot of husbands, they left their wives.
If we didnt have children then I would have moved on, but I stayed with her.
We made a family.
He just said they had Oleg and his brother after she got out of the camp.
I think were going to find a blood connection between these two men.
Why didnt you ever tell me?
Burov asks his father.
So you could have this life, his father answers.
Such as it is.
Burov brings him an apple.
The man doesnt want to name names.
Theyre more powerful than you think.
More powerful than KGB, he says.
Sounds like the Russian mob, the early oligarchs who would then swarm to power when Communism fell.
They control all the food everywhere.
They make deals, they take care of each other.
I used to think my father was the most powerful man in the world.
Hes a minister, Burov says.
When I was a kid, he liked my brother best.
(Cough, maybe because Oleg isnt his actual son!)
Hed deny it, but its true, Burov continues.
When my brother went to Afghanistan, my father could have gotten him out.
My brother wouldnt let him.
He was an officer.
Now hes a picture on the wall.
(Great line.)
He tells the grocery man hes worried about the wrong people.
You should worry about putting your son in a picture.
Were stronger than you think.
Fomina Lydia Nikolayevna, the man says.
Where were you just now?
Elizabeth asks, the concerned mother.
I caught surveillance on me!
he says, claiming he ducked into the IHOP just to get away from prying eyes.
Do not lie to us.
Its not what you think.
Its just, my little brother from my family in Seattle.
Hes sick, really sick.
Dont put this in the report, just.
I know its a dumb thing to do, but I work hard.
I do everything, and this has nothing to do with that.
Not in the report?
Hes lucky they dont execute him on the spot.
Afterward, Philip and Elizabeth are driving home.
Tuan lives to spy another day.
What do you think?
I dont know, Philip says.
If we report it, would they send him back to Vietnam?
Maybe thats what he wants.
To be pulled out of this s, and start over, Philip says.
Its not who he is, Elizabeth answers.
In one episode, the Jenningses are set to lose both their sons.
