🕵️‍♀️ The Americans S06.E08: The Summit

Epic Old-School Recaps

A bunch of Season 6 previouslies -- and, yes, once again we see Philip bring the fire axe down as if anyone's stopped picturing it since it happened -- leave us back again with Philip, pondering his life's imponderables in the den and waiting for Elizabeth to come home. Considerately, she doesn't make us wait as long as she did him, and when she addresses him, she's still as tender and concerned as she was when she went to see him in his office...at first! She tells him she knows Chicago was hard. That's not what he wants to talk about. She promises, "I won't need you again," which, I know what she means in the context of their former relationship as colleagues, but in terms of the otherrelationship they're in together, it's hard not to hear it as ominous. "I don't care about that, Elizabeth," says Philip, sounding irritated. "But you do," she insists. "And I know that you worry. Don't. Philip, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" he asks. "You're wearing a cyanide pill around your neck." (It's more like she's wearing it in her décolletage, if we're being specific; it's not like it's a string of cyanide pearls.) Elizabeth declines to answer this, and after a long silence, Philip says he has to tell her something. Elizabeth's shoulders fall with a silent sigh as she prepares herself to be barraged with more of Philip's feelings, but it turns out there is no preparing for him to tell her about Oleg (not that Philip says his name, duh); Oleg's attempts to block the people at The Centre "who want to get rid of Gorbachev"; and Philip's collaboration with him. When she asks what Philip told Oleg, he starts by saying he described her as "the most dedicated, loyal person ever to serve the organization."
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