A major character meets a cruel end
My husband and I need to postpone deliveries for this weekend.
Thats Elizabeths way of telling the Center: DO NOT KILL PASTOR TIM AND HIS WIFE.
Elizabeth also calls home and breaks the news to Paige that the trip is canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Paige panics shes sure this has something to do with Pastor Tim leaking their family secret.
But well get to that …shortly.
Hes in Moscow for the funeral of his brother, who was killed fighting in Afghanistan.
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Olegs father, a powerful party official, wants him to stay and not return to the United States.
Are you upset with me because of Nina?
You didnt help her, Oleg answers.
His father dismisses his infatuation with her.
You think its easy to help someone like her?
the old man says.
She did everything they asked, Oleg counters.
I dont even know if she is still alive.
Shes not dead, his father says.
Dad…c’mon, Oleg begs.
I need you to find out what happened to her.
She wants to know if Philip helped Henry study for his test.
Shes also not hungry, which makes William worry she has been infected.
just listen, she tells Philip.
If something happens, blame me for Pastor Tim and Alice.
Dont wait for Paige to get suspicious.
Im not going to do that, Philip answers.
You could just raise them here, she says.
Be Americans… Henry doesnt even ever have to know.
Elizabeth…
Im just sayingif, she says.
Its what you want.
Its what youve always wanted.
Shes panicking almost as badly as Paige.
Thats why shes keeping the relationship under the radar.
At her apartment, Stan doesnt find much.
NEXT: Finally, Nina has a chance at being saved
Elizabeth is feverish back at Gabriels.
Now its just a question of whether the antibiotic will work.
Or is it the antibiotic itself thats causing a bad reaction?
Youre a good daughter, Nadezhda, her mother says.
If I die, I want you to go to your cousins…
Hush, Elizabeth says.
Youre not going to die.
Oleg doesnt care and just wants to see her.
If you saw her, youd be aligning yourself with a traitor, his father says.
I cant get you out of that kind of trouble.
He tries to bargain with his son.
If he can help Nina, would Oleg stay in Moscow?
After losing her other son, his mother wants him home.
you could understand that, his father says.
Oleg agrees to the demand.
Finally, Nina has a chance at being saved.
At Gabriels, Elizabeths fever has broken.
Shes getting better, and so is Gabriel, although the fight isnt over yet.
William is fascinated by their relationship, their bond.
Except a series of handlers.
My daughter is in a very bad place because of us.
Because of this job, Philip says.
She could sense something was off.
No family ever around.
Elizabeth wanted to tell her who we were, and I didnt.
We fought about it for months and then we did.
Nobody sane would do this work, William says.
She would, Philip answers.
Id be normal, Philip answers.
Her plan: Work them, turn them.
Gabriel hates the idea.
I have to offer them something.
We actually get to see them having fun, out at a bowling alley enjoying a moment of reprieve.
(Although Elizabeth brings her signature intensity by delivering six strikes in a row.)
She jokes to Paige that its part of her spy training.
Back at the U.S.S.R.s gulag, Nina is seen getting a paper from her lawyer.
Is it the absolution Olegs father promised?
We watch them walk hand in hand into the snow, into freedom.
But it is merely another dream.
She is awoken from her slumber by guards.
A bureaucrat waits for her.
He has bad news.
Her appeal has been denied.
She is to be executed after all.
It will be carried out shortly, he says.
Nina begins to weep, She staggers back, trembling.
It is a cold, abrupt, and brutal end.
RIP, Nina Sergeevna Krilova.
