- Elizabeth and Paige take a trip that lands them in treacherous territory.
- Paige is joining Elizabeth for the homecoming trip to Russia, and they're off together at the airport. Paige looks excited but uncertain.
Yousaf asks Philip whether Annelise's life was worth the CIA canceling its meeting with the mujahideen and therefore canceling weapons shipments to the Afghans. Philip says he feels bad -- using more colorful language -- all the time.
Arkady brings news from The Center that there are to be no assassinations or threats of assassinations without approval. Oleg, sitting in on the meeting with about a dozen other people, knows it's about his threat to Zinaida.
Sandra and Stan are splitting up their possessions and Stan tries to keep things light. Sandra flips through a photo album and Stan says he can make copies so they can each have a set. She awkwardly tells him he can keep the wedding album.
In West Berlin, en route to Russia, Paige starts to ask Elizabeth about her mother. "She's not like the grandmothers you're used to," Elizabeth tells her. It could still be a couple of days before they leave West Germany. As they walk down the street, Elizabeth starts to sense that someone might be following them and tells Paige why she had them cross the street. Paige asks a lot of questions about this.
Gabriel isn't pleased when Philip tells him that Elizabeth and Paige are in West Germany and wanting to get to Russia. He tells Philip he can't blackmail the organization this way.
Oleg meets Stan in a remote part of town and tells him about the message from The Center, which effectively confirms that Zinaida is working for the Soviets. They take note of what Nina might think if she knew they were working together to try to help her.
Meanwhile, back in Russia, Baklanov is hard at work for the Soviets when Nina brings him some tea and food. He's stressed, but says the work he's doing trying to develop stealth technology for the Soviets is exciting and challenging.
Stan meets with Gaad and hands him a tape of Oleg admitting that Zinaida is a spy working for the KGB. Gaad is upset that Stan has been talking with Oleg without him knowing, and gets more upset when he learns that Stan and Oleg have been talking since a couple of months before Nina was arrested. Stan tells Gaad he might be able to turn Oleg, but Gaad wonders why he should ever trust Stan again. Stan maintains that they should do anything they can to help their "agents," including Nina.
Philip and Sandra find themselves at the same EST meeting, where the discussion turns graphic about sex between couples. Sandra looks uncomfortable after seeing him, but afterward they talk and she thinks it's great that he came to another meeting. When he tells her he's there "privately," she quickly leaves.
There's a knock early in the morning on Elizabeth and Paige's hotel room door. When Elizabeth goes to answer, her mother is rolled in on a wheelchair. Elizabeth starts crying immediately and Paige watches their emotional reunion. They speak in Russian, but Elizabeth's mother sees Paige and calls to her by name. The three generations hold hands.
Gaad and several agents confront Zinaida and her cold look at Gaad tells everyone she knows exactly what's going on.
Elizabeth watches from the hotel room window as her mother is loaded into a car and driven away. She turns back toward the room and finds Paige alone in the bathroom, saying she's praying for Elizabeth's mother.
Gaad meets with Stan and tells him that the FBI director is going to open an investigation on him and Gaad recommended Stan be dismissed immediately. Gaad tells Stan to wait at his desk for final word. Gaad also tells Stan that they arrested Zinaida and are trading her for a CIA operative who was arrested a year earlier because "they want him more" than Nina.
That night, Paige tells Elizabeth she doesn't understand how her mother could "say goodbye forever" to her daughter. She asks Elizabeth if she would let her go like that, and Elizabeth tells her she'd never have to do anything like that.
Philip waits in an apartment belonging to Gene Craft, one of Martha's coworkers. He knocks him out with a chloroform rag, then hangs him and types a suicide note on the man's computer.
The FBI director meets with Stan and tells him he understands his frustration with the bureaucracy. He also tells him there won't be an investigation and he needs to continue his work with Oleg -- and that he should come directly to him if the bureaucrats at the FBI give him any trouble about it. Stan asks him to get Nina released, but he says he can't do that.
Philip and Sandra are at another EST meeting, and Philip starts taking to heart what one man is saying about how his body belongs to him. Afterward, Philip talks to Sandra again and asks whether she talks to her new boyfriend about the EST meetings. She says they talk about it but haven't been to meetings together. She stops herself and asks Philip not to tell Stan that anything between her and Arthur isn't fine because it could give Stan false hope. She asks him why he's going to the meetings -- and the sex discussions, in particular. She starts talking about how sex isn't really about sex but about "learning how to be open, really knowing yourself, someone really knowing you." She says she doesn't think anyone in her life has ever really known her, and Philip says Elizabeth knows him -- although she doesn't know he's at the meetings, and that's intentional. Sandra randomly suggests that she and Philip "just tell each other everything -- no secrets" while they're attending the seminars together. He says he doesn't know if he can, and she agrees it would be hard -- although "it would be a good thing to have." They're the last ones there, save for the guy putting the chairs away, and Philip says he'll think about it.
Nina drops by Baklanov's room as he's writing a letter to his son. He puts it away and says he can't talk about what he was doing. She confides in him that she doesn't want to keep "buying back" her life piece by piece. He suggests to her that she doesn't have to do things their way, and that she should start turning down what they offer her, which will take away their power.
Arriving back at the airport in D.C., Paige tells Elizabeth that she doesn't think she can go home and lie for the rest of her life about everything. "That's not who I am," she says. Elizabeth tells her that everybody lies, and that they can get through this.
Philip comes home to an empty house and there's a message from Stan saying Henry is over at his place playing a football game. Philip bounds downstairs when Elizabeth and Paige get home. Paige doesn't want to stay up and goes to bed instead. Philip asks Elizabeth how it went with her mother and she just tells him she's glad she went, and thanks him for setting it up. Meanwhile, Paige is crying alone in her bed. Philip tells Elizabeth that he "took care of that Martha thing today" and hopes they'll shut down the investigation. He killed one of Martha's co-workers and made it look like a suicide in hopes of ending the FBI's probe into the bugging of Gaad's office. Philip doesn't want to tell Martha, preferring to wait until she hears about it and asks him what she needs to know, but Elizabeth thinks he should tell her because it'd be a lot on her conscience. Paige picks up her phone and calls Pastor Tim.
Philip tells Elizabeth it was "hard" to kill the guy in his apartment, where there were a bunch of toys and games that are like ones Henry plays with. Paige, meanwhile, is telling Pastor Tim she's hurting and doesn't know what to do. She says she's tried praying and it doesn't help, and she pleads to him for help. Philip is telling Elizabeth he's questioning what they're doing, but she cuts him off so she can listen to Ronald Reagan's speech on the Soviets at a meeting of American evangelicals. Paige is telling Pastor Tim that her parents "are not who they say they are -- they're not Americans." She tells him he can't tell anyone, then reveals, "They're Russians."
We end the season with Elizabeth's eyes growing cold as Reagan gets massive applause after refers to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" that is the "focus of evil in the modern world."
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