The Americans premiere recap Season 5, Episode 1. At a dinner with Pashas family, the Morozovs, Philip, Elizabeth, and Tuan get an earful of the father, Alexei, and his unbridled disdain for Mother Russia. He tells the couple they are fortunate not to work for the Soviet airline. You want food, you stand in line, he says. We shared an apartment with three families. We share bathroom You pay a bribe. You wait for three years. Philip tries to change the subject What did you do thereComplain, Evgheniya says. You just have to be patient, Elizabeth says. You will, too. In the car afterward, driving back to their lives as the Jennings family, Elizabeth and Philip cant help but express disgust for Alexei. It was really just hot water, Philip adds. After the war, my mother always said she wasnt hungry. But I ate everything. The Americans Season 3 Episode 1 Recap' title='The Americans Season 3 Episode 1 Recap' />She was so thin, Elizabeth says. Theres a silence. Watch Dead Man Down Online Hollywoodreporter there. Well get another chance to go home. It just wasnt the right time, Philip tells her. Whats the right time Elizabeth asks, but theres no answer. At home, they catch Paige reading John Irvings The Hotel New Hampshire, a coming of age story set in surreal circumstances. She is falling in love with the boy next door, Matthew, but her mother and father are nervous over the proximity to his father, Stan Beeman. At their real home, the headaches over Paige continue. In the final scene of last season, Philip ordered Paige to break up with Matthew Beeman, since a sustained. This weeks episode of Fargo starts off with a look back at Thaddeus. They dont need the FBI counter intelligence agent as an in law. When Stan drops by with beer its Miller TimeAlso, hes thrilled about Paige and Matthew. Paige reveals she cant sleep at night after learning about her parents secret. I keep seeing that guy and that knife in his neck. Do you think about it she asks her mother. Chances are, Elizabeth needs to be reminded of who exactly this person was. Oh yeah, the guy who attacked them in the parking lot. Later, to make Paige feel stronger, she teaches her some self defense moves, but shoving her daughter around the empty garage doesnt seem to make the girl any more confident. Back in the Soviet Union, Burov meets with his new boss, a KGB official who wants to crack down on violations in the food market. He asks Oleg if hed like to hear a joke A woman goes into a store and asks Dont you have any meat The man behind the counter says,. The place where they dont have meat is across the street. Why do we even have a joke like that We should be able to feed our own people a hundred times over, the KGB officials says. Bribery, favors, double dealing, fraud. Burovs new job will be to investigate these wealthy beneficiaries of the Soviet Unions starvation problem. Since he comes from a powerful family, Burov is warned he may know some of them. He killed himself for us, Philip says. Hes a hero, Elizabeth says. Gabriel reveals that even though William is dead, He has one last job. Unfolding a map, he shows them Area B at Fort Detrick which is a real place, a kind a of cemetery for the American biological weapons program. William is interred here, and their job is to dig him up and retrieve a sample of his infected body, a nice New York Strip slice of his corpse for the scientists back in Russia to study. At last, theyll have their Lassa virus. Its a big job, so Philip and Elizabeth have a whole crew, including Hans, the young operative Elizabeth was training last season. Horrid Full Movie Online Free there. He has been a loyal friend to them and a vital pair of eyes and ears when they are at risk. As they uncover Williams tomb and extract their pound of flesh, Hans slips at the edge of the open grave. He tumbles down and lands face first on Williams body, slicing open his gloved hand in the process. He looks up helplessly at Philip and Elizabeth. Itll be okay. He should climb out of the hole and bandage that hand. As he starts up the rope ladder, she draws her pistol and blows his brains out. Regrettable. Hans tumbles into the hole, where he will spend eternity face to face with William. Elizabeth and Philip seal the two bodies inside the metal casket, and begin to cover up the remains of a young man who was like a son to them. The Americans Recap Season 5, Episode 5. Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings, Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings. Photo Patrick HarbronFXLotus 1 2 3. Season 5. Episode 5. Editors Rating. 5 stars. There are so many beautiful scenes in Lotus 1 2 3, as emotionally devastating an episode as The Americans has ever produced, that it can be easy to overlook the one that accounts for all the others. Gabriel and Claudia, the Jennings two KGB handlers, are sitting in a car, deciding what to do about Philips son, Mischa, traveling all the way from Russia to see his long lost father. Its not an easy conversation for them to have, particularly Gabriel, who cares more about Philip and Elizabeth than Claudia does. Claudia thinks the boy is unstable though her reasoning about him speaking out against the war doesnt pass the smell test and she declares, rather ominously, that Philip is shaky. Bottom line Its too risky for father and son to be together. All season long, Mischa has been inching his way toward Philip like Scatman Crothers responding to a psychic distress call in The Shining. And because Mischa appearing on the Jennings doorstep would be catastrophic for the mission to say nothing of the family itself we might have expected him to meet a similar fate. Perhaps something more subtle than an ax in the back, but no less resolute. What happens instead is less dramatic and more crushing Gabriel simply forbids Mischa from seeing his father, and thats the end of that. And Mischa reacts with the innocence and the neediness of a child, his limited English producing clipped phrases like, I want to see father and, But I come for him, and Forget father This isnt the outspoken, enemy of the state type that Claudia so disingenuously warned against. This is a kid who risked everything to be with his dad. Philip does not know any of this is happening. Perhaps hell never know. And thats why the scene with Gabriel and Claudia is the one that ties the episode together The Jennings have no control over their fate. Decisions are being made on high, by the Center, that officials believe to be beneficial to Soviet interests with respect to the United States. Those decisions are made without regard or at least without priority to its agents dignity or honor or satisfaction with their work, and theyre sometimes spectacularly wrong, as they were with the supposed American initiative to devastate wheat harvests nationwide. Because the Jennings have to draw on so much creativity and improvisation and independent intelligence to carry out a given assignment, we sometimes forget that theyre as captive as any foot soldier on the front lines. Ultimately, theres no appreciable difference between Philip and Elizabeth and the food suppliers son, whos currently serving in Afghanistan. In both cases, they serve at the whims of officials who often prove unworthy of them. For the Jennings, the mission came along right when they needed a reason to recommit to their work. But what had started as an affirmation of Soviet values in the face of American tyranny one so purely noble in theory that the Jennings could make Paige aware of it wound up turning into the worst case scenario. Those pests savaging crops in labs from downstate Illinois to Oklahoma City to Topeka were not set to be unleashed on a nation already devastated by mass starvation, but part of an effort to end world hunger a dream so exalted that it surfaces whenever people fantasize about a genie granting them three wishes. Now theyve killed an innocent man, on top of giving their bodies over to two more strangers, and all they expect to get from the Center is a resounding Whoops at best, and no promise that it will never happen again. Throughout the shows run, Matthew Rhys has been the face of a deteriorating venture, perpetually clouded with self doubt and guilt over the sins hes committed for his country. Between his scene with Paige at the dinner table and his two scenes with Elizabeth at the end of the episode, Rhys has enough for an Emmy reel, but hes not given to actorly histrionics. When Elizabeth comes back from Topeka to tell Philip they got it wrong, Rhyss eyes fill with tears without quite spilling over along with sadness and defeat, theres a certain numbness, too, that holds his emotions in check. He takes a couple of small steps back, mumbles something incoherent about Tuan, and leaves the house. News from Topeka arrives right after Philips dinner with Paige, who confesses a dissatisfaction with Matthew that has nothing to do with him and everything to do with the psychological burdens that have been placed on her. But in this scene, shes very much her fathers daughter, and Philip can see plainly the qualities shes inherited from him. Its a waking nightmare for him, underlined later at an EST meeting where a lecturer talks about old habits and belief systems standing in the way of loving children. And those are only the children he knows about, mind. At the same time, Philip and Elizabeths marriage has never been closer. Hes happy to see her when she comes home. And shes more understanding of his misgivings about the work than she has been in the past, when they frustrated her. When she offers to take a larger share of the responsibility in the future, he rebuffs her in a way thats simultaneously despairing and reassuring No, no. Its us, Elizabeth. Its us. Theirs is a true partnership, transcendent of their official duties yet anchored by them all the same. Its hard to imagine them moving forward from here. But they must. Hammers and sickles. Ignored all series long, and now that he does something great, the best he can do is a bullet point in this recap. His parents surprise over his math performance annoys him, and it should. Philip and Elizabeth are distracted in the best of times, but whenever they pay any attention to their children, theyre usually huddling with Paige. To them, hes not around, even when he is around. Its a plausible theory, supported by the parallels between Renee and Elizabeth asking their respective or would be, in Renees case targets about their jobs after sleeping with them first. On the other hand, thats a perfectly normal thing to do. If you live in 1. Romancing the Stone, you have questionable judgment.