Welcome to Season 2 of The Americans, and when it comes to watching the show, the edge of your seat isn't edgy enough.
After witnessing the gruesome murders of her friends and their daughter, Elizabeth has gone into full mother bear mode and can't work, can't sleep, can't do anything, but be on the lookout for bad guys angling to take out her family. The utility worker never looked more suspicious.
While Elizabeth hunkers down, Kevin heads out on his own to investigate Emmett's agent and try and figure out if he was the one who got the family killed. Unfortunately, the agent, Fred, has booby trapped his house and Philip gets a big shock (literally) when he goes snooping. Philip wakes up tied to a dresser and not in a fun kinky way, but in a holy-piroshky-I'm-trapped sort of way. He tries to talk himself out of the situation, but the agent, Fred, isn't handling the stress and the home invasion very well. As he holds a gun to Philip's head, Philip has to convince him that he's not the enemy and simultaneously break the news that Emmett and his family are dead.
Once Fred unties Philip, he tells him that the information he was passing to Emmett was incredibly time sensitive and Philip must act immediately or the whole endeavor would be for naught.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth is forced to ditch her kids at the movies in order to answer a 911 call from another operative. She finds a hysterical young woman drugged out in an alley with a doped-up Congressional aide, who she's worried is dead. Elizabeth fixes the situation and leaves the woman with the words, "Your revolution is beautiful," when, clearly, it is not.
At the Russian embassy, Nina can't escape Oleg, the newcomer at the Russian embassy who likes to make grandiose statements like, "I'm a feminist, Nina -- I only work for Mother Russian." As she fends off his stupidity, she discovers that Stan lied to her and actually did shoot her comrade in the head after flat-out denying it before. While she's not in the mood to help him, she does pass along the information that there was a walk-in to the embassy -- an American willing and able to give the Russians intelligence. The FBI runs with the info, but to what end is still TBD.
Come back later for the full recap, comrades.