The tension level within The Jennings family significantly increases.
Stingers is an important and memorable episode of The Americans with some key plot developments and brilliant performances.
The cinematography and editing are excellent, helping to maximise the impact of a number of scenes to the overarching series narrative.
As always the performances are superb, with Holly Taylor, Matthew Rhys and Kerri Russell being particularly memorable.
There is little I can say about the details of the plot without spoiling so I will say nothing, except that, for me, the other review of this episode (written prior) should be disregarded as it was written by someone who appears either to have not understood one character's development or seriously oversimplifies emotion in life.
I rate it as a 9.5/10 but round upwards.