- Tensions simmer between Philip and Elizabeth as they disagree over handling orders from the Centre. When Elizabeth loses key intel, Philip enlists Annelise on a mission with an unexpected outcome.
- With the thought of the Center wanting to recruit Paige as a second-generation spy for the Soviets, Elizabeth flashes back briefly to teaching her daughter how to swim. Paige stood anxiously at the edge of the pool before Elizabeth pushed her in.
Elizabeth gets a longtime female CIA agent who is upset with the way she's been treated to turn and hand over a list of agents involved with operations in Afghanistan. The agent, Charlotte, seems to have second thoughts and tries to keep Elizabeth at the bar as she's trying to leave, but Elizabeth insists she has to go. As she walks away, a couple of cars speed toward the bar. We see the agent describing Elizabeth to some agents who are going to search for her.
Philip goes with Stan to EST, the motivational group sessions that his wife has been attending, but they mock it all and go get a drink afterward.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth is chased down by Agent Gaad and another FBI agent, and she manages to punch and wrestle her way free -- but she's lost the list Charlotte gave her.
Arkady, Oleg and others watch Afghan fighters execute a Russian on TV. Arkady insists that the Soviets can fight the war from the U.S., just like the Americans can. Oleg thinks they need to get out of Afghanistan. Arkady warns Oleg to be careful what he says around a new agent named Tatiana.
Stan and Philip come back to the house while Elizabeth is icing her shoulder. She says she hurt it unloading groceries from the car, but after Stan leaves she tells Philip about her "close call" with the FBI agents.
The next morning, Stan finds Gaad with a bandaged nose. Gaad also tells Stan that Nina was convicted of espionage and treason. The other agent tells Gaad that the CIA took the list of names. He tells Gaad while Stan is still there that hospitals are on notice to report any woman coming in with injuries to the face or jaw.
Elizabeth goes to a church event with Paige and helps with some fliers while taking note of a boy Paige seems to be interested in.
Philip and Elizabeth visit an older man named Gabriel, who has put together some of their favorite foods and wants to know about their kids. He fills them in on news from the Soviet Union. He also asks them about Paige and the possibility that she can become a spy. He wants to be able to report back to the Center that they're thinking about it. Elizabeth tells Gabriel about Paige, debriefing him in such a way that surprises Philip and suggesting that Paige is ideologically ready. Gabriel directs Elizabeth to a drawer, where there is an envelope waiting for her.
Outside of Gabriel's place, Philip unloads on Elizabeth for setting Paige up to be handed over to the Center. "You're assessing her," he says. "You're developing her." She insists she isn't.
Oleg is upset about Nina's conviction, but Arkady explains that she committed treason and didn't report two meetings with Stan. Oleg says he's talked to his father about it, but his father doesn't think political connections should be used for political gain.
Philip meets with his contact, Annelise, who is trying to get close to Yousaf, who is in the ISI. Philip asks her to get him back and find out who he's working with in the CIA's Afghan group. Annelise flirts with Philip before having sex with him in his car.
Elizabeth pulls a cassette from the envelope Gabriel gave her and listens to it. It's a her mother speaking in Russian. Elizabeth smiles as the woman opens with small talk about her kitchen but then tears come to her eyes as the woman delivers more upsetting news about her health.
After having sex, Annelise cries and feels bad because she thinks she's falling in love with Yousaf and "he deserves better."
Stan meets up with his wife and tells her he took the first week of EST and says he thought it was "good stuff." This makes her upset because he isn't being honest, so he then tells her he thought it was stupid.
Philip and Elizabeth aren't really speaking -- even after she gives him a brownie she saved from the batch she made for Paige's church event. She tells him about the tape Gabriel gave her. She says her mother is dying.
Stan and other agents sit in on a briefing about a U.S. visit from a woman in the U.S. Canada Institute, warning that the KGB is going to want to send a message around her visit.
Elizabeth is giving lessons to a South African man who is learning how to follow a car without being noticed.
Annelise has sex with Yousaf while Philip listens in from the room next door. Yousaf says he wants to get Annelise an apartment in Zurich, where he can visit every two weeks. She asks him if he loves her. She whispers to him that she loves him but he has to know she's been doing some "very important work." He realizes someone is listening and demands to know what she has done. She tries to assure him that she loves him and she's on his side, but he starts to choke her, squeezing her neck while Philip struggles to hear from the next room. Philip realizes something is wrong and walks in just as Yousaf has killed her. He confronts Yousaf, who starts to get dressed and says nothing. Philip tells Yousaf that he is wrong if he thinks he can just escape what he has done, but that Philip can help him, adding that he "can make this go away."
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