- A devastating flaw during a mission forces Philip, Elizabeth, William, and Gabriel to confront the depths of their patriotism... and their mortality. In Russia, in striving to be a better person, has Nina put her life on the line?
- Elizabeth tries to cancel "delivery of the package" this weekend and scientist, William clips the steel cord, removing the pay phone receiver after the conversation. FBI Dennis pressures Martha to spend time together. At dinner, Martha tells him she is seeing a married man; meanwhile, Stan ransacks her home and flips through her edition of "Kama Sutra". Elizabeth is having symptoms: either as a side effect of the Glanders antibiotic, or she is sick; and she has vivid fever dreams. Nina is still alive, but in solitary. Home in Russia (from his tour in the US) after his brother's death in Afghanistan, KGB Officer Oleg asks his father to help Nina, but his father demands a huge sacrifice in return. As Elizabeth and Gabriel lay sleeping, William confides in Philip. A number of surprising Russian decisions are made on two sides of the ocean but the results of one of them are chillingly final.—LA-Lawyer
- Using a payphone, Elizabeth calls home to let Paige know they will not be home until Saturday because they have to work. Paige starts crying and asks if it is because of her and what she said to Pastor Tim, but Elizabeth tries to assure her it is not, and that they need her to take care of Henry. She says she understands.
Using wire cutters, William removes the handset of the payphone that Elizabeth used, to prevent infection if she has contacted the bacteria.
In Moscow for his brother's funeral, Oleg talks with his father, Igor. He informs his father he will be returning to America to finish his tour, and inquires about Nina, saying he wonders if she dead or alive. Igor says she is still alive because they would have told him otherwise. Oleg begs his father to find out what happened to her.
Henry stops at Stan's one morning and asks if he knows anything about computers, which he doesn't, and then asks him again for advice on girls. Stan asks if Henry ever asks his own father about girls, and Henry says no. Henry tells him that their Disney vacation is canceled because his parents had to suddenly go out of town for a business trip, and Stan seems surprised. Stan goes over to the Jennings home and offers Paige a ride to school as he offered to drive Henry, but Paige declines and says she will take the bus. He asks about their parents and what happened and she says they had to go to New York because a big client was threatening to fire them.
At the FBI office, Aderholt asks Martha if she would like to get dinner that evening. She is surprised, but says yes. Later, she leaves a rambling message on Clark's answering machine, informing him she is going to go to dinner with a male colleague from work. The answering machine cuts off just as she tells him she loves him.
Elizabeth begins to feel ill and throws up, which William says could be a side effect of the chloramphenicol. She tells him that if something happens to her, he can blame her for Pastor Tim and Alice's upcoming death, and that he can then just raise them as regular Americans, which is what he's always wanted.
As Aderholt makes small talk with a quiet Martha at dinner, Stan breaks into her apartment. He takes photographs and finds her gun and her copy of the Kama Sutra. At dinner, Martha tells Aderholt that she is seeing someone after all, but that he's married. She tells him that she knows he is not going to leave his wife so they are honest with each other, and that it's probably the most honest relationship she's ever had.
Igor tells Oleg what he has uncovered, that Nina was asked to get information from someone working on a secret program and interfered some way. Oleg asks his father to use his influence to help her. Igor sighs but says he will, under the condition that Oleg return home, as his mother is brokenhearted. Oleg says he understands everyone is grieving terribly after his brother's death, but his father tells him the grief he feels is not the same as a parent losing a child. Igor says he lost all his own brothers during the war, and thought nothing could be worse, but that this is. Oleg agrees to stay if his father helps Nina.
Elizabeth's fever breaks, and Gabriel improves also. She tells Philip that she now understands what they were saying, and that they can't kill Pastor Tim and Alice, because Paige would never forgive them. They inform Gabriel, who tells them they would be "living in a burning house" with that information out there. He said they would be living like he was before the war, during Stalin's purges of the 1930s, when everybody was afraid that each day would be their last.
Nina's lawyer brings her a letter. She cries and then smiles. She returns to the research center and meets Anton, handing him two Aeroflot airline tickets. They open the door and walk out into the snow and sunshine.
Lying in her prison cell, Nina is awoken from her dream by voices and a soldier opening her door. She is informed she is being transferred. She quickly packs her things and is taken down a long hallway and into a room. She looks perplexed to see a man in a suit. As he formally addresses her, her eyes fill with tears and her chin wavers. He informs her that her appeal has been denied, and that her death sentence, passed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 18 March 1983, will stand, and she will be executed shortly. She is begins to cry and shake in fear. She is shot in the back of the head. Her body is loaded into a tarp and taken away.
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