They did that to her last year in a podcast and it was really obnoxious.

Yes, Gaad's involved in Stan and Oleg meeting. Remember he's the one who told Stan that Oleg's brother died.

What's American about him in that scene?

I think we do know she works for the bioweapons division, at least.

It's easy to kill anybody. That doesn't mean they always do it. "It's easier" is not their priority in most cases.

We do know. It's the tape Stan made of him and Oleg plotting together to get Nina back by trading her for Zinaida.

Absolutely—it was the opposite of a fuck up. It was the moment everything started going okay because Elizabeth's got this.

We have heard the tape. The tape is the recording of Stan and Oleg discussing their scheme to out Zinaida to get Nina freed. It's potential blackmail material for Oleg that shows him being a traitor but Stan and Gaad believe that's not the way to turn him.

That woman was not a Communist. She was an ordinary woman who stumbled on her husband's secret—her husband who wasn't supposed to be married to her. She was not supportive of anyone and didn't keep secrets—she didn't get a chance, since she only just found out they were spies after they picked her up.

Why is it worse for the Jennings children? They've actually both shown more interest and had more interactions with Henry even lately than Stan has with Matthew—who only recently it seems started seeing him more frequently. And both times Matthew's been over there Stan's been working. Even before the divorce Stan was…

Eh, they're probably not so different than other kids in their class whose parents work. We've had like three eps in a row where Henry was sitting in a room with his sister and at least one of his parents, usually ignoring them while he played a video game.

So what? They don't know that much about her. They know she's provided a lot of info—willingly—from the FBI and now she needs protection.

I don't understand what's so hard about it.

But we know they want the rat out. That's the whole point of getting it to begin with, and they presumably have to move it pretty fast. Glanders stayed here because the plan to get it out failed.

Exactly. We've seen them put value in their assets before. It's not like their prime directive is killing everyone who isn't terribly necessary to them at that very moment.

Western defectors have value in Russia.

She wasn't thinking of the operation. She was thinking of her own operation, which is transporting the rat. That's what her pilot was for. Oleg doesn't know that and isn't read into that plan, which is why she keeps it secret.

Totally obvious. Suddenly we were in a Hitchcock film. I expected a seagull to come whizzing up to the glass any second.

Philip's always given the short form of his name and Elizabeth always gives the long version—which is pretty fitting for their personalities. But neither of them would actually just have the one name. Mischa isn't like Bill for William in the sense that English-speakers tend to stick with one or the other. In Russian…

But he'll be distracted by Philip having sex with Sandra on the coffee table, just cause.