They killed her family, made her bury them, and then forced her to get drunk while she held a gun at the Russian prisoners. She was forced to do what she did and probably was forced into doing other things as well.

Maybe the Centre doesn't and P&E then walk across the street to Stan for an interesting evening.

Every foreigner is potentially a spy.

I was actually hoping that they would not follow through and it would be the beginning of the end of their lives as spies.

In a weird way it was the first time I really felt disgusted by what P&E ended up doing. And yet it was Elizabeth who shot first because Philip still has a bit of humanity left in him.

Seems everyone is on the brink of doing something terribly wrong. I think there's a lot more tension in the show than you give it credit for.

A lot of people complain about how slow the show is progressing, but, I digress. It probably is intentional in the sense of showing us just how mundane and tedious that the lives of spies are most of the time. It's not killing, breaking into labs, or digging up bodies every day.

Child actors do grow up in real life and their situations change.

Child abusers? LOL. Not even close.

Somehow I suspect it's the other way around.

Well I think the diary changes everything. They probably thought they could contain Pastor Tim but what he wrote in the diary makes him a threat no matter where he ends up. I have the feeling he ends up in Siberia at the very least.

And the way they went about it was no different really than a family getting ready for dinner.

So far they have destroyed a lot of lives with little to show in return for it. Probably why Philip has the "When is this shit going to end?" look on his face all the time now.

By getting legally married they are regaining a part of the humanity they have lost over the years by living a life of lies to everyone else.

I know he's not Catholic but regardless of the denomination people expect that they can tell their pastor/priest something and it should remain secret. Otherwise it breeches trust. That could be part of Paige's motivation to have him sent away.

Or perhaps Philip just doesn't like Claudia. Also since the embassy would need to be involved in convincing Evgheniya to return perhaps hearing it straight from the Rezidentura would be more impressive.

In many ways isn't Pastor Tim's job very similar to the Jenningses? Collecting information? He learns things about his flock then writes it down. I wonder if he feels that he is obligated to keep it a secret since if he told others it would undermine his authority (and in the Catholic Church such admissions as Paige…

A lot of the recent episodes shows the human side of many of the characters and when compared to prior seasons and some of the early episodes of this season they can seem to drag out due to less spy action.

If you grew up in the 80s like I did it gives you a totally different perspective and I can see how those born after that period would be somewhat unattached while viewing.

Yes, loved how they finally brought Paige into some of the mundane aspects of what they do.
Also the contrast with how much work the Jenningses are going to have to do in the future with regards to working their honeypots for the wheat and Martha's potato in the prior episode while the elites in the Soviet Union have…