I agree with that. I think that although Elizabeth was initially trying to warn Philip about the surveillance, she and Philip are united no matter what. And boy, was she shooting daggers at Tuan when she ordered him to call Pasha.

You're thinking of the conversation Philip and Rob were having while they waiting to abduct Timoshev. Rob said he heard that Timoshev once got into a bar fight with the Japanese Olympic judo team and took out several of them. And Philip scoffed at that saying the team were "pu$$ies" because they didn't even medal. lol

I assumed that it was because he was with his foster family for five years when he got the signal for this assignment and had to just take off. He may have had a handler back in Seattle, but he seemed like a sort of Hans-type with them with the way Philip and Elizabeth were constantly evaluating him.

Also, this is his first assignment. Philip and Elizabeth have been teaching him, but he's probably overcompensating for breaking protocol by sneaking off to call his brother, causing Philip and Elizabeth to freak out. It's not unlike Hans reacting to Elizabeth "firing" him by doubling down and killing the kid who may…

IIRC, Tuan plastered the smile on his face when Elizabeth took Philip's hand and relaxed her stance. I thought he and Elizabeth were putting on a casual, normal family look for the agent in the car.

I just realized the courier is played by the actor who played Styr, the Magnar of Thenn, on Game of Thrones. No wonder he's so unsettling.

They set it up in the episode where she told them he's a courier, then they had the scene at the FBI about how the courier packages are secured.

Of all the shocking things that happened in this episode, the most shocking was a teenage boy cooking dinner for family. But seriously, my jaw dropped in almost every scene. I don't know which was more weird: Philip and Elizabeth asking Pastor Tim for advice about uprooting their kids to the USSR, or Tim giving the…

I started crying when Nora told her story and asked so childlike, "Why would anyone want that job?" then I was a blubbering mess by the end. I hated Laurie so much in the first season, and tonight I felt so sorry for her and just wanted her to find some peace. Damn you, Lindelof, I don't feel like watching Twin Peaks…

I'm glad I'm not the only one who watched this consecutively with The Americans. I could not sleep after "Dyatkovo," and despite knowing that it was a thoroughly bad idea to watch The Handmaid's Tale, I watched it anyway and barely got two hours of sleep.

Joshua Brand also wrote the Emmy-nominated "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?," which this episode is reminiscent of.

Washington, DC has food delivery robots. They are adorable. Although my fanfic has Mail Robot and Milton, the copier/toaster from Archer, falling in love and living happily ever after.

It's possible that his laughter would eclipse his reaction to Aderholt's, "Would you like a Coke?"

That final scene with the road ahead leading to endless darkness felt like the Hannibal Season 1 finale. I half-expected the ravenstag to appear and stare at Philip and Elizabeth ominously.

This is The Americans at its best: intense, shocking, morally gray, and heartbreaking. Elizabeth calling the woman a monster as a denial of herself as a monster, then compassionately taking the burden off of Philip, then basically announcing that she can't do this anymore. How can they go home? What about Paige and…

Exactly.

I liked the, "Why are you talking to me about marshmallows? Like I'm worried about marshmallows." Then under his breath, "Yeah, I like marshmallows." Shadow had a bit of petulant teenager about him in this episode, which is understandable given the way Wednesday conned him into giving him cover when they went into the…

And I would add The Young Pope and Atlanta.

"I think the point Philip made with the marriage wasn't just about wanting to hang on to Elizabeth. They're taking power away from the Centre by doing it, asserting their true selves the way they're not supposed to even in the face of Claudia telling them that they need to keep sleeping with other people."

And I am looking forward to that with equal levels of excitement and dread.