- Lena escapes to Russia. Against CIA orders, Joan gives Annie permission to find Lena. Annie tracks Lena, who then tries to convert Annie as a counter spy. That fails, and Lena tries to shoot Annie. Annie kills Lena in self defense.
- Annie wakes up and learns that Lena has escaped D.C. and has found her way to Russia. Going against agency policy, Joan gives Annie permission to track Lena down. Hungry for vengeance, Annie makes her way to Russia to hunt down the traitor.—Rosie Rhodes
- The CIA can't go against State Department instructions to abstain from any action to track down Simon's killer, traitor Lena, on Russian soil. Even Auggie is against Annie's plan to try on her own, but helps her prepare, with Joan. The only local allies are Simon's naive sister, a Moscow waitress, and retired KGB hit-man Dmitri Larionov, now a music shop keeper.—KGF Vissers
- Annie checks her scars and gets ready for some sneaking around in black, with a gun. She scales a fence in full cat burglar mode and breaks into a sealed crime scene, Lena's apartment. She goes downstairs and finds a piano. She taps on the keys and a strike team comes in, telling her to freeze. "Tell Joan Campbell I need to see her, I figured it out," she says.
Annie meets with Joan and Arthur. She tells them an FSB operative named Dmitri who was in Nairobi when Lena was, his code name was " Rachmaninoff" - he was a talented concert musician but also was believed to have killed two people with piano wire. She went through the 1998 cables and found his name in one from Lena. They think Lena has already fled to Russia. Anne has found a Dmitri working in a music store in Moscow and thinks it's the same one. She wants to approach him for intel on Lena. Arthur and Joan are against it- Lena has killed every agent they've sent after her. They're pursuing diplomatic channels.
Annie trains with Auggie in the gym. He heard about last night and thinks she needs to take it easy. She punches again and ignores her bullet wound when it starts to bleed.
Later, Joan stops by Annie's house. Annie is packing. Joan realized Annie wasn't asking for permission earlier, she was telling them she was going. Joan is willing to support her, but tells her to only take a picture of Lena then come home. She's on her own if Russian authorities catch her. Joan reminds Annie that Lena knows her and is hoping her feelings for Simon will cloud her judgment. Joan tells her to stay focused, then hugs her -- a first.
The next morning, Auggie joins Annie on her ride to the airport. He gives her a plane ticket and a stern warning to be careful. She can't have any contact with Langley in Russia. "I am here for you no matter what," he says. "That means so much for me, I hope you know that," she says.
Annie arrives in Moscow. She uses the key Auggie gave her to the apartment of a former CIA asset, now dead.
There's a note from Auggie and a backpack full of cash waiting for her. There's a knock at the door, a woman named Katarina with the mail for the former tenant, who she doesn't know is dead. Annie burns the mail.
The next day, she goes to the music store, introducing herself as Pinja Stanis, the former asset. She asks Dmitri for piano lessons. He says no. She asks again, then asks to see her hands. She plays for him. He tells her to stop, then says no lessons.
The next day, she goes back again. He ignores her. She trains in the apartment and goes back the next day. He ignores her. She paces the apartment and gets antsy. "Screw it," she decides.
She goes into a café and speaks English. She notices Simon's tattoo symbol in her tea cup. She leaves, expecting to be followed. When she is, she runs into a restaurant to get away. She comes out the back, but is grabbed from behind by Dmitri, holding a piano wire across her throat. "Who are you?" he demands. "I came for you, Rachmaninoff," she says.
He looked into Pinja, she was left handed, and Annie played with a dominant right. Annie tells him she wants to talk about Lena Smith.
He tells her they met in Nairobi in 1998 after the bombing. They started dating and he thought he'd turned her. But she made a deal with her bosses to get a promotion and turn him in. So he returned to Moscow, no Lena and no job.
Annie tells him Lena took something from her, she came for justice. He says he can't help and asks her to leave him alone.
Back home, Joan confesses that she's backing Annie on her trip. Arthur points out he could fire her for going against him. "How's it going to look if she dies?" he asks. "How's it going to look? I don't know, but it will feel terrible," she says.
Back at the café, Annie tells the waitress, Zaria, that she knew her brother, Simon. She knows about her, Simon spoke of Annie often. Zaria was his "bright star," the one he got his tattoo for. Annie tells her that Simon was happy before he died.
Annie finds Dmitri again. She tries to urge him to make a difference, skipping all the spy tricks and telling him honestly that she needs him.
He takes her to a cage match to talk to Sergei, the only one he stays in touch with from those days. He's very nervous to talk to her. She stares him down, then shows him her giant backpack of cash as she asks about Lena. He tells her the apartment where Lena is living in the penthouse, ferried to and from biweekly debriefings. He says Lena can't be gotten to. "I need a gun," Annie announces.
Dmitri gets her a small pistol -- his own. She takes target practice, but her wound flares up. He sees her bullet scars. He advises her to go home. She wants to stick to the plan to get the picture tomorrow. "Trust me, no good can come of this," he says. "I'm not looking for good," she says.
The next day, Dmitri and Annie stake out Lena's Mercedes. He gives her a countdown and she rushes out with spikestrips. The car hits it and screeches to a halt. Annie runs over, breaks the window and aims her camera and gun at the backseat. But instead of Lena, she's facing a man with an automatic weapon. She turns and runs, he fires and chases her.
Dmitri picks her up and they drive off.
Joan gets notice from Seth from OIG that the State Department heard about Annie's operation. It doesn't look good and people are saying it could be the end of Arthur.
Annie and Dmitri go back to his shop. She pulls a gun on him.
"I should be dead right now, so you need to start talking," she says.
Annie wants to know why the guy in the car hesitated.
He tells her he thought he was being followed soon after Annie came for lessons. Then Lena reappeared. He choked her, she kissed him. "Pure emotion -- I could feel again," he says.
Lena wanted to use the ambush to discredit Annie. He tells her that Lena wants Annie alive and wants to see her. He tells Annie where to find her. She leaves.
Joan visits Arthur, turning in her letter of resignation. He says he'll take it under consideration.
Auggie calls Annie to warn her that the police are looking for her and she needs to get out. "This isn't the agency calling and I'm not Joan. There things that I need to say to you face to face, important things. Please," he says. "See you soon," she says.
Annie pays Simon's sister a visit in the café and they share a cup of tea. Annie followed by several men as she leaves.
They catch up with her in the Metro and stop her -- but it's not Annie. It's Simon's sister.
Meanwhile, Annie sneaks up on Lena at her lake house. Lena is waiting for her, defenseless. "If you pull the trigger, you'll never know the truth about Simon," Lena says. "Were Simon and I friends, colleagues, lovers?"
They never met face to face. She picked Simon because he was her type. She expected Annie to fall for him, but didn't expect him to fall for her. Jai was onto her, so she had Leo Brewer take him out. She needed somebody to take the fall and Annie was available, vulnerable and ready to prove herself. She suggests Annie become a double, like her, to experience power.
Annie sits down at the table with Lena, who points out she had the power to summon Annie to the woods. Lena wants her to show her the game. Lena tells Annie she'll never make it out of Russia and the worst part will be the knowledge that she killed for malice. We see the gun down the back of Lena's pants as she stalls and dares Annie to fire. Finally, Lena makes a move for her gun. And Annie shoots. Lena drops dead to the floor.
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