You mean as blackmail for the commanders?

This.
I didn't think about it. Faking their deaths would be the only way to make KGB let them go. Were DNA tests back then known? If not it could work otherwise they would find out.

I think after learning that the Centre lied to them about the wheat and that they used the bio weapon from last season, he isn't trusting his government any more. And if he finds out what they did to his eldest son, it will be even worse.

If their story doesn't end up with going to jail or getting killed, I see Liz going back to Russia while Philip stays with the kids in the US. She's the only one still attached to home, while Phil isn't.

This Serena Joy is perfect representation of the white women who voted for Trump.

Gabriel is a real good reader of people and their emotions. He can ask them to do things they absolutely hate in such a way that they still think of him as a kind grandfather. Unlike Claudia.

Liz and Philip always seem like kids when interacting with Gabriel. With Claudia there's an underlining animosity and they express it.

Pretty much everyone on TWD is an asshole.

That was clear from the pilot. There's no way this won't end in distruction.

Also in the world of lookalikes: is it me, or did the blond "silly girl" gifted for Oleg look reminicent of a cherubic-faced Ivanka Trump? (Seriously.)
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She was even less thrustworthy as Marita Couvarubias.

So that scene at the end, Philip is absolutely done. And Elizabeth is seeing that sexy type of distraction aren't working any more. I think the killing of that lab guy over nothing is crucial.
Also poor Oleg, he is just as sick of Sowiet methods as Philip.

F. U.

How are his ideas working? He and his group screwed up every place they showed up.

If Philip and Elizabeth showed up in Harlan County and for some reason run into Arlo and Raylan, their fake identities would be blown off. I'm sure Raylan even as a child could tell when someone is lying and pretending.
I'd kill to see that crossover.

She also doesn't know that their marraige was arranged.

They are Nazis, they should proudly announce it instead of hiding in the closet of White "Nationalism"

That damn communist Hollywood. Just because they've welcomed back honorary Anti-Semite Mel Gibson, doesn't mean true patriots are tolerated. Poor Tim.

It's not healthy to surpress emotions especially the way Philip and Elizabeth do. At some point it will come out and it won't be pretty.

This. What they are doing to her is as damaging as the training they got before starting their "fake" marriage.