- Danger mounts for Elizabeth and Philip as they get closer to the inner circle of the CIA Afghan Group.
- Philip and Elizabeth attend an open house at property belonging to the one Gabriel and they assess the "weakest" from the list of CIA Afghans, Paaswell. Philip is able to gain valuable intelligence at the open house. Doing car surveillance, the pair realizes they are being followed. The passenger, Philip, is able to tuck, roll and escape but the driver, Elizabeth, is less able to manoeuver. To evade detection, Elizabeth must evade a rolling surveillance team of 11+ FBI agents. Zinaida speaks out about Russia, the death of Brezhnev, KGB, politics and the war in Afghanistan.—LA-Lawyer
- Gabriel identifies some men in the photos Philip took of the CIA agents Yousaf met with at the bar. The main target is Isaac Brayland, and his right-hand man Ted Paswell -- who might be desperate for money because he's trying to sell his house and has lowered the price twice. Philip says he'll look into Paswell and Gabriel warns him that the CIA will be protecting everyone on the list. Gabriel tries to assure Philip that The Center is concerned for Paige's well being, but Philip doesn't seem to be buying it.
Elizabeth is coaching a South African spy, Hans, through recognizing people and potential followers on the streets. He's a teacher who has to head back to class.
There's some serious tension that night between Philip and Elizabeth. Philip isn't pleased that she talked with Gabriel about Paige without him there.
At FBI headquarters, Agent Adderholt tries to flirt with Martha but doesn't get very far. He then goes and tries to smooth things over with Stan, and seems successful.
Philip and Elizabeth, in disguise, tour Paswell's house with a realtor and Philip uses the opportunity to bug Paswell's office and cell phone, which is so big it's connected to a receiver the size of a boom box. Philip then digs around files in the office closet and finds some canceled checks. Paswell shows up at the house and heads toward his office. Paswell finds Philip, who makes some small talk about the house and that leads to Paswell revealing that he brings too much work home and his wife resents it. In the car, Philip and Elizabeth, eavesdropping with the bugged cell phone on Paswell listening to Air Supply's "All Out of Love" on his car radio, deduce that he's taking his divorce pretty hard.
At the Soviet Embassy, Arkady tells Oleg that his father has pulled some strings and is looking to get him transferred back to Moscow early, but he tells Oleg that he won't sign the order unless Oleg approves. Oleg doesn't answer right away.
Philip and Elizabeth are driving around neighborhoods near Paswell's car, listening in to his oddly flirtatious conversation with his kids' babysitter, when Elizabeth suspects they're being followed. Hours later, still trying to lose the tail, Philip throws himself out of the car in a dark parking lot and tells Elizabeth he'll meet her at home -- but not before mapping out a route for her and telling her a specific intersection (Maple and Green) and tells her a time of 10:45.
Back at the house, Paige is Henry's room to get his laundry when she finds a photo of Sandra Beeman in a bikini. Henry yells at her and demands she give it back and then claims it isn't his, and she gently puts it down and walks out of his room.
Philip calls a woman and, using code, says that his friend has his some traffic and there is a two-car accident at Maple and Green that won't be cleared until 10:45. He hangs up and the woman takes the note.
At FBI headquarters, Gaad tells Stan that there are 11 cars following Elizabeth's car. A moment later, presumably at Maple and Green at 10:45, Elizabeth slows down as she passes a man walking, who tosses a police scanner in a paper bag into the car through the open window. She turns the scanner and hears the agents discussing where to turn.
Philip gets home and finds Paige up, watching TV, unable to sleep. He tells her he knows it's hard for her that they work so much, but she insists she's fine and goes to bed.
Adderholt jumps into the meeting room at the FBI headquarters and encourages Gaad to put up a roadblock and pick Elizabeth (who they haven't identified) up instead of just letting the CIA continue to follow her around.
Elizabeth listens to scanner traffic as it becomes clear that agents are preparing to move in on her. But help is on the way. An apparent Soviet ally drives behind one agent and uses a device to create some interference on his radio communications. Elizabeth watches in the rear-view mirror as the agent finally moves through an intersection and it crashed into by another car. Elizabeth hustles out of her car, walks a block, and climbs into a waiting car to hide in the back seat -- clearly shaken.
Late that night, Elizabeth finally gets home and -- with neither of them saying a word -- goes to Philip for a hug. And they kiss -- but just for a moment because her tooth hurts. They head to the laundry room, where Elizabeth takes a shot of whiskey and Philip proceeds to painstakingly pull two of her teeth out in a tense, silent scene (other than Elizabeth's painful gasps) that combined the frustration and love they feel for each other.
Philip, as Clark spending time with his "wife" Martha, is frustrated as he goes through a conversation with Martha about taking in a foster child.
Elizabeth is coaching Hans again and warns him that "sex is dangerous" in this line of work, in response to his dropping too friendly of a compliment the last time she worked with him.
Philip talks to Gabriel about wanting to continue pursuing Paswell, but Gabriel tells him "not everything is worth the risk." He thinks they should cool down their pursuit for now. The conversation again turns to the question of whether to bring Paige into the business.
Arkady, Oleg and Tatiana discuss the Americans' building of a stealth bomber, and Oleg later tells Arkady that he's staying in the U.S. and not returning to Moscow, despite his father's wishes.
Stan escorts Zinaida to her "Meet the Press" interview, in which she talks about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, her supposed reason for defecting. As she talks about her outrage over the Soviets enforcing a belief system upon a foreign nation, at the behest of an old man trying to stay in power, something strikes Stan as not quite right.
Philip and Elizabeth do exactly what Gabriel didn't want them to do -- stake out Paswell's car while he chats with the babysitter. Philip thinks there could be an opportunity there. The flirtatious conversation between Paswell and the babysitter continues but Paswell finally stops it and say it's not appropriate. Philip and Elizabeth drive by as the conversation winds down and the babysitter gets out of the car to go into her house -- which Philip soon realizes is the home of Isaac Brayland, the head of the CIA's Afghan group.
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