By Joe R | Season 1 | Aired on 2013.05.01
Just as Elizabeth feared, Prince is being swiftly broken by the Feds while they prepare for not only a meeting with the defecting Colonel, but also an FBI-engineered meeting between Caspar Weinberger and James Bakker that is purely a trap. Elizabeth and Philip haggle over who gets to fall on their sword, not knowing they suspect the wrong meeting of being a set-up.
Meanwhile, Nina gets orders from Arkady to not only inform on the Americans, but that her endgame will be to eventually turn Stan. Hello, Season 2 arc.
Grannie Claudia takes an extracurricular mission to kill Patterson in retaliation for Zhukov's murder. Later, she learns that the Centre is indeed re-assigning her, per the Jennings' request. Loyal as ever to the mission, she informs Arkady that she thinks the Colonel meet is every bit the setup that Philip and Elizabeth do.
Stan informs Nina that he expects good news today, after which he will be able to get her exfiltrated. This, of course, isn't the good news that it would have been for Nina, say, two weeks ago. She goes right back to Arkady and tells him about this expectation of big news, which she has to believe indicated that the Colonel meeting is a trap.
And while Prince has indeed agreed to talk in exchange for immunity and $500,000, the Feds aren't onto the Colonel yet. They're all over the Weinberger thing, though, waiting to snatch up the Directorate S agent(s) who come to retrieve the recording device. That turns out to be Elizabeth, because Philip decides to play the chivalrous husband and take the "more dangerous" Colonel meeting himself. He's already at the meet when Claudia sees the makeshift abort signal that Arkady sends. She busts up the meeting, but she and Philip soon realize this isn't the set-up. Philip races to Elizabeth, snatching her up in time to make a thorny and dangerous getaway from FBI barricades. Elizabeth is shot in the process, but Philip is able to get her to a black-site hospital in time to save her.
In the meantime, Philip asks Stan to watch the kids while he and Elizabeth travel to take care of Elizabeth's ailing great aunt. Paige ends up back in her empty home for a moment and begins snooping in the basement, where her mother had previously been suspiciously "folding laundry" the other night. We don't see Paige finding anything yet, but she's clearly on her way. Good, because the more narrative weight we can lay on Paige, the better.
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