Tonight on FX The Americans airs with another all new Wednesday, April 22 season 3 finale called “March 8, 1983,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, in the season 3 finale, Stan’s [Noah Emmerich] plan to save Nina [Annet Mahendru] has unpredictable consequences.
On the last episode Martha hosted an unexpected guest. Philip and Elizabeth had to work a formidable Mujahideen commander. Paige acted out. Written by Peter Ackerman & Stuart Zicherman; directed by Christopher Misiano. Did you watch last week’s episode? If you missed it we have a full and detailed recap, right here for your enjoyment.
On tonight’s episode per the FX synopsis “Elizabeth and Paige take a trip that lands them in treacherous territory. After an emotionally charged mission, Philip turns to an unlikely source for solace. Stans plan to save Nina culminates in unforeseen ways. Written by Joel Fields & Joe Weisberg; directed by Daniel Sackheim.”
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#Nashville starts at an airport with Elizabeth and Paige leaving for a trip to Europe. Elizabeth tells Henry they’ll be stuck in West Germany for the visit and it won’t be that much fun. Philip whispers he’s sorry he won’t get to meet her mom and Elizabeth says he wouldn’t have liked her anyway. Paige looks nervous. Yousaf tells Philip that the Muhajideen meeting was canceled so whatever he did worked.
He says Annelise and they can feel good about this.
Philip says many lives will be saved. He tells Yousaf he feels like shit all the time. At the Rezidentura, Arkady says they got new guidance from the centre saying no more assassinations without approval from all departments. Someone asks if there have been unauthorized killings and Arkady says there is word that an op off the record that was run but no one got hurt. Oleg thinks hard about it – they’re talking about what he did with Zinaida.
Stan and Sandra are splitting up their stuff. He wants some of the plants which surprises her. He offers to make copies of the photo albums so they can each have a set. She says he can keep their wedding album and says she wants the Degas print. In West Berlin, Paige and Elizabeth walk and talk. She asks if her grandmother knows she’s coming and what she’s like. She says she’s tough and had to be. She says she’s not the grandmothers like Paige is used to.
She asks when they’re going and Elizabeth says she’s not sure yet since they’re still making preparations. She tells her to cross the street and Paige says she’s acting weird. Elizabeth says she’s making sure no one is following them. Paige asks who would be and Elizabeth says someone from West Germany. She tells Paige she has to be careful all the time when she’s working. She says it’s also a habit.
Philip tells Gabriel that they’re in West Germany and the center just needs to pick them and take them across. Gabriel says this isn’t how they do things and Philip says the centre needs to understand since they want Paige connected to her roots. Gabriel says he’s acting like a child but Philip says he’s getting done what needs to be done. Gabriel says he can’t see 10 feet in front of him and says he’s tried to take care of him and he’s treating him like the enemy.
Gabriel says Philip also thinks there’s something wrong with Elizabeth when she doesn’t see eye to eye with him. He tells Philip to grow up. Oleg and Stan meet and he tells Stan that an order came through about no unapproved assassinations. They agree that Zinaida must be working for the Russians. They wonder if this can work to get Nina out. Stan asks what it’s like for Nina now. Oleg says the prison wouldn’t be so bad but a labor camp or Siberia would be worse.
He says when people get out of the last two, they stay in shit local villages until they die. Stan asks what Nina would think if she knew they were working together to get her out. Oleg says he thinks Nina knows he’s trying to help her and Stan says Nina would like to put a bullet in his head. Anton works late on his project in the lab and Nina brings him tea. She asks if he got the photos and he asks doesn’t she know but she says it’s not like that for her.
She tells him he should get some rest but he says he’s made some exciting breakthroughs. He says all he has left is his brain and says this is a challenge. He says he’s not a martyr and if he lives, maybe he can see his son again. He tells Nina they only have his body and asks if she understands. Stan comes to see Gaad and mentions that Nina was convicted. He says he couldn’t live with it and hands him a tape. He hands him a tape that he says is Oleg Burov admitting that Zinaida is a spy working for the KGB.
Gaad isn’t happy that he was talking to Burov without permission. Stan says Oleg had a thing for Nina and says things got complicated with he and Nina and Oleg found out and tried to use it against him a couple of months before Nina was arrested. Stan says he knew he could get Oleg this way but knew he needed time. He says they can arrest Zinaida and trade her for Nina. Gaad asks if he gives a shit about the bureau then asks if he bugged his office. Stan says of course not.
He says he got Oleg for treason and says he may be able to turn him. He asks Gaad to help him to do this. Gaad asks why he’d be stupid enough to trust him again and Stan says he got that asshole on tape and it’s proof. He says if it’s the end of his career, so be it, but says Nina was their agent and their agents deserve help if they get caught. Gaad says not to give him a speech on how they’re supposed to treat agents and he walks out.
Philip is at an EST meeting. A woman stands up and says she confronted her husband about how bad their sex life was. She says he wasn’t supportive and got mad at her. She says they argued and then he said to let her go down on him and says she was just wet and ready. Philip sees Sandra is there. She finds him afterward and says she’s surprised to see him there. He says he’s surprised too. He says he came with Stan the first time and she says he must have gotten something out of it.
Philip says he’s there privately and she says no problem and says she’ll see him next time. She leaves. Elizabeth wakes in the West German hotel to a knocking at the door. Paige wakes too. She opens the door slightly and then steps back. A wheelchair is brought in and Elizabeth goes to her mother and takes her hands. She says it’s been so long. They whisper in Russian. Her mother says she missed her every day. Paige watches emotionally.
Her mother says she had to let her go because so much was at stake. Elizabeth cries. She looks at Paige then says her name. She holds her hand out to her granddaughter. She smiles at her grandmother. Zinaida is greeted by a contingency of soldiers including Gaad and Atherton. She goes with them. Later, Elizabeth watches her mom being loaded into a car downstairs and driven away. She’s still crying. She goes to Paige who’s in the bathroom.
She asks what she’s doing and Paige says she’s praying for her mother. Elizabeth sits down on the floor nearby and Paige goes back to praying. Gaad tells Stan that he filled the director in on everything and says they arrested Zinaida but are trading her for a CIA asset that’s more valuable. He says he recommended that Stan be let go immediately. He tells him to wait at his desk until they decide. Paige lies awake in the hotel and then calls to her mother.
Paige says she doesn’t understand how her mom could let her go like that and asks if she’s let her do that. Elizabeth says Paige would never have to do anything like that. Paige rolls back over and closes her eyes. Philip waits in an apartment sitting and waiting when a guy comes home. He pulls off his earphones but then Philip is on him with a cloth over his mouth and chloroforms him. Philip searches the guy’s drawers and then hides the receiving part of the pen in his dresser.
He hangs the guy to make it look like suicide then turns the guy’s Commodre 64 computer on and types a note that said he had no choice, I’m sorry. Philip puts down the guy’s toy robot and leaves. Stan sits at his cubicle waiting. The director calls Stan into the vault. He says he remembers Stan came in last year complaining last year about red tape and then ran operations off book. He says Gaad isn’t happy but Stan has gotten close to two people at the Rezidentura in the last year.
He tells Stan there will not be an investigation into what he did and says all that matters is working Oleg. He says he won’t let the bureaucrats there stand in his way and tells Stan to come directly to him with any issues but says he can’t get Nina released. Then the director goes to talk to Gaad who gives Stan a smug look because he thinks Stan has been fired. Aderholt is looking smug too. Both will be shocked.
Philip is back at an EST meeting, so is Sandra. There’s a guy talking about how he’s cheated on his wife but now he knows his body belongs to him. The leader tells him he’s so stuck in his mind but the feelings in his gut are just as important. After, Philip lurks around til Sandra notices him and they say hi. She says it was intense tonight and she says it’s amazing how people open up. He asks if she talks about this stuff to her boyfriend and she says sure and they even talked about coming together.
She says it’s hard for couples to come together and says you run into things even in new relationships that you need to work on. She asks him not to tell Stan anything about this and doesn’t want him to get his hopes up. He says Stan doesn’t know he’s there and she asks why is he there. Philip says he doesn’t know and says last time he liked something about it. She says Werner says that everyone thinks they come for someone else but it’s really for themselves.
Then Sandra asks why he picked the graduate sex seminar. He says he doesn’t know and things are find with he and Elizabeth. Sandra says it’s less about sex and more about being open and then says she’s not sure anyone in her life has ever really known her. He says Elizabeth really knows him but doesn’t know he’s there. He says she’s out of town. Sandra says it’s hard and she gets that. She says this may sound crazy then says they can agree to just tell each other everything while they’re both there.
She calls it an experiment. Philip says he doesn’t know if he can do that and Sandra says she doesn’t know if she can either but says it could be a good thing, even a scary thing. Everyone has left by now. Philip says he’ll think about it. Anton is writing a letter to his son when Nina shows up. He hides the letter he was working on and lets her in. She has a tray for him and asks if he was writing. He says he can’t talk about it and Nina says he must know why they brought her here.
She says she can’t keep buying back her life like this. She says she doesn’t know if it’s worth it. Anton sits by her and says she doesn’t have to do it their way and says to turn down everything they offer, especially that which she wants most. He says that makes them start to lose their power. Elizabeth and Paige make it back from West Germany. Paige says it’s weird being there and now back here and her mom agrees. They go find a cab.
Paige tells her she doesn’t know if she can do this. Paige says she doesn’t think she can go home and lie to Henry and all her friends. She says she can’t lie for the rest of her life and says it’s not who she is. Elizabeth says everyone lies, it’s a part of life. She says they’re telling truths now and that’s important. She says they’ll get through this. Philip comes home and looks around the quiet house. He checks the answering machine – it’s a message from Stan saying Henry is over there with him playing.
Philip doesn’t call and goes upstairs to listen to the BBC news about the conflict in Afghanistan. He lies on the bed later when he hears the door close. He sees it’s Elizabeth and Paige and welcomes them back. He hugs them and asks how the trip was. Paige says she thinks she has jet lag. Elizabeth calls for Henry but Philip says he’s at Stan’s playing some football game. Paige says she just wants to go to sleep. Elizabeth hugs him and goes to unpack.
Philip asks how she did and Elizabeth says she thinks it went well and was good for her. He asks about her mother and she says she’s glad she went and thanks him for working it out for her. Paige lies on her bed crying. Philip says he took care of the Martha thing today and hopes it will shut down the investigation. He says Martha doesn’t know and Elizabeth says she should hear it from him first. She says a woman like Martha needs to hear it from him.
Paige cries and looks at her phone. She picks it up and slides down onto the floor and quietly makes a call to Pastor Tim. She speaks to his wife Alice then asks for Tim. Philip tells Elizabeth about the guy he killed and says his apartment had all this kid stuff in it and says it was really hard for him. Paige cries and tells Tim she’s not okay. She says she’s having a hard time and is hurting and doesn’t know what to do.
Philip says he feels like when he does this stuff, he needs to be able to know what he’s doing better. Elizabeth asks what he means. Paige says she tried praying but it doesn’t help. She asks him to help her. Philip says he feels like – – then Elizabeth interrupts and says they need to listen to the news. It’s Reagan. Paige says her parents are liars and are trying to turn her into one too. Reagan condemns Soviet leaders about the nuclear freeze issues.
Stan and Henry happily play the game. Paige tells Tim her parents aren’t Americans and aren’t who they say they are. Paige says she’s not supposed to say it and says Tim can’t tell anyone but says they’re Russians. Reagan talks more about how Russians think they’re omnipotent but are the focus of evil in the modern world.
THE END!
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