If This Defector Likes Chocolate Bars, Wait Until She Tastes The Rainbow!

Maybe Nina still will end up getting executed for treason, but for now: she's alive! Alive and peeing!

After leaving Yousaf alone with Annelise's corpse...and a beer, Philip finds a nearby pay phone and calls Elizabeth! He has more "files" that need "moving," and he could sure use her help! She's on it!

But before Elizabeth can leave, Paige has an idle question: has Elizabeth ever called Philip when he was supposed to be at the office and not had him answer? Elizabeth shrugs off the question without actually answering, leading Paige to explain that she had a friend whose father "worked a lot," and then this friend's mother went to her office looking for him and he was having an affair, and with his secretary because it was the '80s and those were the only single women married men ever got to meet! Elizabeth reassuringly promises that Philip's not having an affair using the airtight "I just know" as her evidence! As she goes to leave, Paige observes, "You guys look out for each other"! Because she has something to hide, Elizabeth hears this as Paige's suspicion, but Paige says she thinks it's a good thing! Elizabeth takes off without telling Paige that she'll have a partner just as good that she'll eventually learn to love decades into their arranged marriage, too!

You Don't Even Want To Know What's In Her Dopp Kit

Elizabeth is all business when she arrives at Yousaf's hotel room with a rather large suitcase, and when she spreads out a piece of plastic sheeting on the floor...well, shit gets really upsetting. Not only are Philip and Elizabeth going to dispose of Annelise's body by breaking each of her limbs, the better to fold her into the suitcase Elizabeth has brought; they're also going to make Yousaf help.

You wouldn't think the ulna of a woman as petite as Annelise would make much noise when someone snapped it. YOU WOULD BE WRONG, APPARENTLY. And man, when Philip and Elizabeth check that suitcase at the airport, the gorilla that works there is really in for a big surprise.

HEEEEEEEY ROOMIE!

Name:	Evie.
Age:	Early 30s.
Occupation:	Convict.
Goal:	Long-term: to sort out whatever crazy misunderstanding led to her incarceration in this Soviet prison, which her embassy probably doesn't even know about! Short-term: to make friends with her cellie Nina. Both efforts seem equally doomed -- particularly the latter, since this is Nina, basically.
Sample Dialogue:	"I don't know how long I will be here. I did not do anything."

Milky Way!

Defecting from the USSR to the USA brings countless stresses, from pooping in a bucket in the packing crate you've been smuggled in to fear that you'll be assassinated for taking a public stand against Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Don't forget to take a little time for yourself with the sweet, delicious, creamy taste of a Milky Way! Sure, your hotel can't necessarily guarantee your safety. But one bite of that smooth nougat and you'll agree:

But You're Eskimo Buddies!

Oleg is still stalking Stan, but now has decided to escalate by stopping Stan and threatening him with a gun. At first, Stan tries reasoning with Oleg, pointing out that killing Stan will ruin Oleg's life once he gets caught: "They'll get you for it." "Yeah? Did they get you? After you killed Vlad Kosygin? She told me what you did. And you had her sent to a labour camp." Aaaaaand point to the Commie! Stan tries hinting vaguely at his willingness arrange for U.S. forces break Nina out of prison, of which Oleg is justly dubious, and he finally loses patience, ordering Stan to get on his knees. "Screw you, Oleg," Stan spits. "You want to shoot me, shoot me in the back." He starts walking away, verrrrrry slowly, as we watch his face steeled for the bullet he's pretty sure is imminent. But Oleg doesn't shoot, and when Stan reaches his car and turns around, Oleg has gone. Sure, these two have a lot of issues to hash out, but there's frenemy potential here!

Philip vs. Elizabeth

Philip reports that Yousaf has followed Philip's directions and set up an offsite meeting for all his CIA contacts working on Afghanistan, which Philip and Elizabeth can surveil and photograph and generally...like, spy on. (He'd feel better with "a little bit of a team," but Elizabeth says that the guy she was training in car tricks in the last episode won't be ready for a couple of months.) Elizabeth then decides this is the right time for a "told you so," opining that they wouldn't have had to do any of this if she had been running Yousaf all along. Philip has the grace not to counter that they'd be further ahead right this second if she hadn't lost that list, instead saying in exasperation that this is why he doesn't want Paige to be in this position, ever. Hey, buddy, no dad likes to think about his daughter controlling an asset with sex, but we all get there eventually! But seriously, Philip doesn't want Paige to put anyone in a suitcase, or get put in a suitcase, and disdains Elizabeth's idea that the Centre will just let Paige work a cushy desk job at the CIA or the NSA for twenty years -- sure, that's what they need now, but what about when things change? Elizabeth is now offended that Philip is so determined to baby Paige: "What do you want, Philip, a guarantee that life's going to be easy?" "For my daughter? YEAH." Eh, all right.

Winner: Philip, but do I need to say this still isn't over?

The Love I Lost Should Hear About The Life I Almost Lost

Not really knowing how else to handle the fact that he almost just got straight murdered, Stan calls "Matthew" and leaves a pathetic message on the answering machine ("Hi, Sandra, also. And Arthur, I guess. Okay, bye"), and even though it's weird, neither Sandra nor Arthur is a monster, and when Stan comes over and is clearly in a state, Arthur lets him in and Sandra lets Stan tell her...however much of the story he can without getting himself or her into trouble, I suppose. Kindly but clearly maintaining boundaries, Sandra says she's happy Stan didn't get killed, but that she's not the person he should be coming to with stuff like this. Haltingly, he says they told him at Est that almost being killed is one of the few experiences in which humans feel really alive: "I don't know about that." He does know he shouldn't still make her his first call, but that she's the only person he wants to tell this stuff to. "I'm not coming back because you almost got shot," she says. She's glad he's safe and whole, and (somewhat confusingly) kneels in front of him to assure him, which just makes him reach for her, at which she backs away and stands, firmly telling him, "That's all there is." Well, that's that, quick and painful.

Idealism vs. Cancer

Just because Elizabeth can't stop listening to the tape Gabriel brought her from her mother doesn't mean she has any illusions about one last tearful reunion.

How To Make A Soviet Quilt

Who called the meeting? Elizabeth, probably.

What's it about? She's returning the tape from her mother, which has brought up some thoughts and feelings about her own relationship with Paige.

How'd it go? Pretty well. Gabriel is obviously in the position he's in because he's a great listener and great at drawing people out -- even Elizabeth, who's guarded by nature. She comments that her mother, on the tape, said that Gabriel had come to see her, and Gabriel says he did, and that her mother's very beautiful. Elizabeth is pleased to find out that she aged well, and says she was always very serious. Gabriel says that their generation -- his and Elizabeth's mother's -- lost everything during the war, and that she might be happier now, knowing that Elizabeth is alive and making a difference in the world. And SPEAKING OF SERIOUS, Gabriel observes that Elizabeth and Philip seem different than they were when he was here before. Elizabeth sighs that things are hard with Paige, sounding amused as she repeats Paige's suspicions about Philip's fidelity. Gabriel thinks that's a reasonable assumption, given Philip's late nights...but does Paige trust Elizabeth? "I don't know. She's a teenager. In this country." Sounds like someone needs to shore things up with a few more of Pastor Groovyhair's peace rallies!

Philip and Elizabeth are all set up at the motel where Yousaf's set up the meeting with his CIA contacts, but then just one guy shows up and moves the meeting! Elizabeth and Philip have to scramble to follow...but then they just end up at a bar, which is a perfectly incongruous place for anyone to be, so they get a bunch of photos of the guys anyway? Seems fine!

Less fine: Elizabeth's mouth! We already saw her spitting up blood earlier; now she's wincing at a mere swallow of beer! Philip tells her she needs to see a dentist, but she knows she can't, because the FBI will be monitoring dentists in the area for a female presenting with her exact injuries! USE YOUR HEAD, PHILIP! Or, like, drive her to Kentucky or something.

At the Rezidentura, Oleg and Tatiana, a new analyst, watch a news report about Ronald Reagan attending Brezhnev's funeral and joke about what he's probably thinking. "'In death, we are all the same'?" "'He wasn't that much older than me'?" Ice thus broken, Tatiana leads Oleg out to ask what he's heard about Zinaida Preobrazhenskaya, our Milky Way-loving defector! Oleg reports that she's doing interviews this week with Meet The Press and Newsweek! He just doesn't know why Tatiana's put him on this when his area is science and technology! "Propaganda is more important than anything. I want you to start to understand this"! Yeah, quit being such a snob about old media, a phrase that probably didn't exist then!

Speaking of Zinaida: another Milky Way? WHY NOT! Stan rolls up and they review her schedule so that we can see Oleg's intel was tight! She's been thinking maybe she could go see some sights, like the Lincoln Memorial or Washington Monument! Stan's like, uhhhhhh, we'd kind of rather not take you someplace we couldn't secure and where you'd probably get killed, hello?! She wants to know if he really thinks all this security's even necessary, like would the KGB even try to kill her in America?! If Stan thinks her naïveté is adorable, he doesn't show it!

Nina's led into a prison interview room where Igor Pavlovich, the Minister of Railways, is waiting! The first thing he says is that he can see why Oleg was into her, so hey, it's Oleg's powerful father we've heard so much about! She asks how Oleg is, and when Pavlovich seems surprised that she's worried about Oleg given...you know, her own situation, she shrugs that she's not worried, she just wants to know! He confirms that she doesn't have any children, getting philosophical about how children are a joy, but that failing to do what's best for them is parents' "great misfortune"! Yeah, sounds like a drag! Nina doesn't really care about any of that, and asks whether Oleg sent Pavlovich to see her! Pavlovich says that Oleg wants him to use his influence to get her out, but doesn't say whether this is very likely! Nina doesn't beg, but asks Pavlovich to pass on a message from her to Oleg: "Tell him I wasn't pretending with him"! No message for Stan, though!

And then we're at the travel agency, where Elizabeth has chosen a quiet moment to point out to Philip, "This stuff with Paige...it's not going to just go away." He knows. Elizabeth tells the story of her own recruitment: "When they came to me, I had a week to decide. I went home -- I wasn't allowed to tell anybody. I was sixteen. I took my mother out to Lopatinsky Gardens. I was going to break the rules, but I was going to use tradecraft. I told her everything -- I didn't know what to do. She didn't blink. She told me to go and serve my country. When I was called, my mother didn't hesitate." Philip is sad, but he seems to know he never really had an option. Good luck, Paige! You're going to wish your dad was having affairs!!!