The Americans (TV Series)

START (2018)

Keri Russell: Elizabeth Jennings

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• Philip Jennings : I-I did all this... stuff, Stan. I don't even know why anymore. It-it seemed like the right thing to do. For my country. My country wanted me to. And I- And I... I kept doing it. Telling myself it was important, until finally I couldn't. And I-I stopped. I'm done with that now. I have been for a long time. It w- it was all just screwing people for... I don't... I don't even know for what. So I quit, like she said. Like you did. I'm a travel agent now. I'm just... I'm just a shitty, failing travel agent. Except I guess I'm not. Because now I-I need to leave, if I can. I have to run away from the place that I have lived for the past... so many years. If I can, if-if we can. Stan, I have to abandon my son. He can't come with us, because I got caught. I finally got caught. And here we are. And I don't even know what happens if we make it home because after all these years being scared of Americans and recruiting Americans and following Americans, we finally... we actually got something, and it has nothing to do with you. It's our own people. It's a bunch of fucking Russians. They're trying to get rid of Gorbachev. And we figured it out. Her, really.

  Elizabeth Jennings : It's our own bosses. They were going to fake my reports, make it seem like Gorbachev was trading away military secrets at the summit. The people I trusted all this time, and now...

  Stan Beeman : Do you know Oleg Burov?

  Philip Jennings : W-who is that?

  Stan Beeman : Don't bullshit me now, Philip. We arrested him earlier today picking up a dead drop. He told me the message was about people in the KGB trying to get rid of Gorbachev. Told me I had to send it back to Russia.

  Elizabeth Jennings : That message has to get back home.

  Stan Beeman : I could care less who runs your country.

  Philip Jennings : Stan, these people, if-if they're not stopped... that's our whole country. That's... that's our whole future. And it's the world, and whether we get to live in peace or not depends on this. We have to tell them what happened here. Because if that dead drop didn't go through, we're the only ones who can stop this now. I don't know why you should trust me. You should hate me. You sh... you should probably shoot me. But we're getting in that car, and we're driving away. I wish you'd stayed with me in EST. You might know what to do here.

  Paige Jennings : You have to take care of Henry.

  Philip Jennings : He loves you, Stan. Tell him the truth.

• Philip Jennings : We had a job to do.

  Stan Beeman : You were my best friend.

  Philip Jennings : You were mine, too. I never wanted to lie to you. Stan, what else could I do? You moved in next to me. I was terrified. And then we ended up as friends.

  Stan Beeman : Friends? You made my life a joke.

  Philip Jennings : You were my only friend. In my... in my whole shitty life. For all these years. My life was the joke. Not yours.

  Stan Beeman : And Matthew? Was that part of this? My son?

  Elizabeth Jennings : She didn't know. She didn't know until...

  Paige Jennings : I knew. They told me when I was sixteen. But Matthew, it-it had nothing to do with that. I just... liked him.

  Stan Beeman : Henry?

  Philip Jennings : No.

  Paige Jennings : He doesn't know anything.

• Philip Jennings : Stan, I don't know what the problem is. Maybe you-you and I...

  Stan Beeman : [drawing his service weapon]  Stop moving. You fucking piece of shit!

  Philip Jennings : [raising his arms]  What're you...? What are you doing? What are you doing?

  Stan Beeman : Lie down on the ground. All of you.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Stan.

  Philip Jennings : W-what are you gonna do, shoot us?

  Stan Beeman : On the ground. Face down. Keep your hands where I can see them. Move slow.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Stan, we're not lying on the ground, not while you have that gun pointing at us. This is Paige, Stan.

  Stan Beeman : Stop! Elizabeth, just stop. It's over. It's all over.

• Philip Jennings : [SPOILERS] 

  [Final lines of the series. Philip and Elizabeth stand on the balcony of the Sparrow Hills in Moscow, contemplating their lives and choices] 

  Philip Jennings : Colonel...

  [sighs] 

  Philip Jennings : I can't even remember his name now. When they first asked me, he said it'd be a hard life. Didn't want for me to think it would be some big adventure. I said I wasn't afraid of that.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Who knows what would have happened here. I probably would've worked in a factory. Managed a factory. You might've.

  [after a pause] 

  Elizabeth Jennings : Maybe we would've met... on a bus.

  [thinking about Henry and Paige] 

  Elizabeth Jennings : They'll be okay.

  Philip Jennings : They'll remember us. When... they're not kids anymore. We raised them.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Yes.

  Philip Jennings : Feels strange.

  Elizabeth Jennings : [in Russian]  We'll get used to it.

• Paige Jennings : So we're leaving him? Alone?

  Philip Jennings : His friends are here, his life is here.

  Elizabeth Jennings : He's almost seventeen years old. That's the age I was when I started to work.

  Paige Jennings : He's not you. None of us are. He'll never talk to dad again? Or see him?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Paige, the FBI could be here any minute. They will arrest us. We...

  Paige Jennings : I don't care. Can't you just... what's going to happen to him? I don't understand. How's he gonna live? Who's gonna pay for his college? Is he gonna be able to get a job?

  Elizabeth Jennings : This is hard for all of us. We all love Henry. Okay?

  Paige Jennings : Yeah, do you?

  Philip Jennings : You know we do. And that's why this is the best thing for him.

  Elizabeth Jennings : It's the only way.

  Paige Jennings : He won't understand. There has to be a way.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Paige.

  Paige Jennings : Let's just think about this for a second.

  Elizabeth Jennings : We cannot take him!

  Paige Jennings : He'll hate you.

  Philip Jennings : We know that.

  Elizabeth Jennings : We have to go, and we have to go now. Come on.

• Philip Jennings : Henry should stay. He... he's been doing so well there. His future is here.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Leave him? Is...? Is that what you mean?

  Philip Jennings : [nodding]  It's the best thing for him.

  Elizabeth Jennings : To be alone? Away from us? That is not the best thing for him.

  Philip Jennings : He belongs here.

  Elizabeth Jennings : He belongs with us.

  Philip Jennings : We have to do it for him.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Philip. They would tear him to pieces.

  Philip Jennings : He hasn't done anything. He doesn't even know. This is where he grew up.

• Paige Jennings : What's going on?

  Elizabeth Jennings : The FBI knows about us.

  Philip Jennings : We have to leave. For good. They almost caught me.

  Paige Jennings : I-I don't... go where?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Home.

  Philip Jennings : You have to pack a bag.

  Elizabeth Jennings : The essentials. Almost nothing.

  Paige Jennings : Home?

  Elizabeth Jennings : A bookbag would be fine.

  Philip Jennings : And then we'll answer questions later.

  Paige Jennings : You mean Russia?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Paige, we don't have...

  [spotting Paige's school bag, she dumps out the contents] 

  Elizabeth Jennings : It's over. This is how it works. It's not our choice.

• Paige Jennings : What, are we supposed to just... does Henry know?

  [noticing their stony silence] 

  Paige Jennings : What?

  Philip Jennings : He's staying here.

  Paige Jennings : What do you mean?

  Elizabeth Jennings : At school.

  Paige Jennings : Henry's not coming with us?

  Philip Jennings : Paige, we're going to Russia. What would he do there?

• Stan Beeman : Paige, where you guys going?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Home.

  Stan Beeman : Really? Huh. Why? What's going on?

  Elizabeth Jennings : I'm not feeling good.

  Stan Beeman : Both your parents came to pick you up? That seems a little strange.

  Elizabeth Jennings : We were coming from work.

  Stan Beeman : [knowing she's lying]  You were just at work.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Why are you acting this way?

• Stan Beeman : All this time. I would have done anything for you, Philip. For all of you.

  Philip Jennings : I know.

  Stan Beeman : Did you... Gennadi and Sofia... that was you.

  Philip Jennings : W-who is that? W-we don't know who that is.

  Stan Beeman : Fucking liar. I saw it on your face. When I told you about them. Do you know how many people have been killed by Soviet agents here in Washington in the last year? Five years? Ten?

  Paige Jennings : I-I'm sorry.

  Elizabeth Jennings : We don't kill people, Jesus.

  Philip Jennings : We-we wouldn't.

  Elizabeth Jennings : He doesn't even do this kind of work anymore. He quit. He's a travel agent now. That's all.

  Stan Beeman : Get down. On the ground.

• Henry Jennings : Heh, where are you?

  Philip Jennings : At a pay phone in the city.

  [pause] 

  Philip Jennings : You know how proud we all are of you, don't you?

  Henry Jennings : Yeah, sure.

  Philip Jennings : And, and how much we love you.

  Henry Jennings : Uh, have you been... have you been drinking tonight, Dad?

  Philip Jennings : I had a little wine with dinner, so, yeah, maybe I'm a little... Um...

  [pause] 

  Philip Jennings : I just want you to be yourself, okay, because...

  [pause] 

  Philip Jennings : because you're great.

  Henry Jennings : Okay, heh, I'll, I'll be myself, Dad.

  Philip Jennings : Good.

  Henry Jennings : All right. Um, you should probably let Mom drive home.

  Philip Jennings : Yeah, I will. She wants to say hi.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Hi, Henry.

  Henry Jennings : Hey, Mom.

  Elizabeth Jennings : What are you doing?

  Henry Jennings : Now?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Yeah, right now.

  Henry Jennings : Just hanging out.

  Elizabeth Jennings : With your friends?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Yeah.

  Henry Jennings : [pause]  What your father said, I feel the same.

  Henry Jennings : I know, Mom.

  Elizabeth Jennings : I love you, Henry.

  Henry Jennings : Okay, look, I gotta go. Okay?

  Elizabeth Jennings : Just wait one second, okay?

  Paige Jennings : [quietly]  I can't.

  Philip Jennings : Hey.

  Henry Jennings : Hey, Dad. Look, I really gotta split. We're in the middle of a ping-pong tournament.

  Philip Jennings : Okay, go, go, go.

  Henry Jennings : Okay, I'll see you next week.

  Philip Jennings : Yeah

  Henry Jennings : Okay. Bye, Dad.

  [hangs up] 

• Philip Jennings : They were on Father Andrei. I barely got out of there. And they're gonna come down hard on him.

  Elizabeth Jennings : Let's get Paige. And then straight to New Hampshire. You should call Henry now.

  Philip Jennings : And tell him what?

  Elizabeth Jennings : He's got to get away from the school. We'll pick him up on the road or in a town. Our best bet's probably the Canadian border.