Tonight on FX The Americans airs with another all new Wednesday, March 25 season 3 episode 9 called “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, a plan to save Nina [Annet Mahendru] is hatched by Stan [Noah Emmerich] and Oleg. [Costa Ronin]
On the last episode Martha and Clark’s marriage met its most challenging test yet. As pressured on Philip intensify, Elizabeth turned to Gabriel with a difficult request. Nina receives a new assignment that reconnects her with her past. 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 “Philip and Elizabeth struggle with the gravity of unexpected collateral damage. Stan and Oleg hatch a risky plan to help save Nina.”
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#TheAmericans starts with Elizabeth waiting for Hans. She tells him she thinks Todd may have seen him. He says it’s not possible but she says he came down off the ladder too soon. He asks if she’s sure but she says that means it’s all over. She says she can’t take the risk. He says he wants to serve the cause but she says it has to be in other ways. She walks away.
At the travel agency, Philip comes in and tells her the FBI found the bug in Gaad’s pen. He says Gabriel doesn’t know yet. He says there’s more. He says Martha knows about him because the person they brought in to investigate isn’t him but she doesn’t know he’s a Soviet. Elizabeth asks what they do but he says nothing now. She asks for how long and he says he’ll see.
He says he’s going back tonight but she says he can’t. Philip says Martha hasn’t told anyone and says he knows because he trusts her. Elizabeth looks hurt. Philip waits in the car and hears an engine crank. He looks at lights in the apartment window. He goes inside and finds Martha cooking dinner. She greets him with a smile and says she made homemade pasta sauce. She tells him to come taste.
He does and says it’s perfect. The phone rings and she asks him to stir the sauce. The call is from children’s services. She says the children are wonderful but they reconsidered. She says it’s not the right time for them. She says she’ll let them know if things change. She ends the call and tells him they can’t think about kids right now. She tells him it’s okay. She says she’s fine.
She says she just needed to know and now she does. She says okay and he says yeah. She asks him to sit. He serves up salad for them and she pours them some wine. He thanks her. She offers a toast to turning the page. He drinks to that. She says the wine is good. Then she says she thinks Gaad won’t outlast this investigation and says he attacked the mail robot.
She says it’s being sent out for repairs. He asks about Gene and she says he’s the computer specialist. She says it was his idea to install the mail robot. She tells him to eat before it gets cold. Stan meets Oleg in secret to talk more about Nina. He tells Stan he might be right about Zinaida and says he hasn’t found out anything specific but something seems off at the Rezidentor.
He says there’s a way they can find out but it’s risky. He says if they got caught it’s very risky. Hans finds Todd working in the supply room at school and shoots him in the eye. Then his gun jams. They grapple and Hans knocks him down and chokes him to death. Gabriel, Elizabeth and Philip walk and talk about Gaad. Philip says Martha will protect him and Gabriel agrees.
Gabriel says the centre wants Philip to bug the mail robot. He says Martha won’t be able to change out the tapes. Gabriel says they have other assets that can change the tapes. Gabriel tells the two of them to trust the organization. Hans meets with Elizabeth and says he killed Todd so he could keep working with her. She’s shocked at first then asks if he’s sure no one saw him. He says he’s sure.
Elizabeth asks if he’s all right. He says it was messy and didn’t go exactly as planned. She says it seldom does. He says what his people have done to the blacks in their country is wrong and they have to stop. He says he will do whatever is asked for the cause and for her. Stan works a crossword while he waits in a government building outside a meeting with several military people.
Zinaida comes out and he has a snack for her then says they’ll get room service when they get back to the hotel. She says she wants to try a BLT then starts to explain what it is but he says he knows. Elizabeth and Philip are at the repair place for the mail robot. There are several of them there. He locates the right one and they get to work.
Elizabeth tells him it’s only natural he has developed feelings for Martha. He tells her thanks for her permission and she says she didn’t mean it like that. She sees a light come on in an office upstairs. She creeps closer to see what’s going on. She has her gun out. She opens the door and hears someone opening up a drawer. She walks into the room and finds a woman there.
She tells the woman not to scream or she’ll tie her up. Philip keeps working on the mail robot while she deals with the woman but then he notices she’s gone. The woman asks if it will take long and Elizabeth says she doesn’t know. The woman says she hopes not. She asks if she can keep working. She says she comes in late to do the bookkeeping because she’s usually alone.
She says most people don’t like to work at night. She says she likes sitting in the dark and feels most in tune. Elizabeth asks what she means by that. She says she feels close to her husband and his presence. She says she doesn’t feel him tonight because of her. She shows her a photo and says his name was Gil and the frame was from her sister-in-law. She says the sister never married and was a pill.
She shows her another picture of her younger self. Elizabeth says she was pretty and then she says she was and says her son Andy runs things now but won’t be in until morning. She says Gil started the shop and was a machinist and learned the trade in WWII in the Army. She says she was a math teacher. She says there were no calculators and robots then and says the world changes.
She tells her that her husband was a Christian Scientist until the war but after he helped liberate the Jews from concentration camps he said he had no need of those stories anymore. The woman asks her for a glass of water. Elizabeth tells her she needs her keys. She hands them over immediately. Elizabeth takes the phone too. She goes downstairs to check on Philip and tells him what she found.
She asks how much longer and he says he’s trying. She tells him about the woman’s husband being in WWII. He says the woman picked a bad time. Stan brings Zinaida back to her hotel room and checks around. He tells her he’ll wait outside for her food to come. She thanks him. The woman tells her that she has a heart condition and asks if she came to fix something or steal.
They talk about their fathers and she says her dad was a farmer. Elizabeth says her father was a coal miner and her mom an office worker. She asks if her mom is alive and where she lives and Elizabeth says Russia. The woman says her English is good and Elizabeth says she’s been well trained. The woman realizes Elizabeth won’t let her leave. She says it’s not possible.
The woman says this is not how she expected her story to end. She says she’s not afraid of leaving the world and says it’s better than falling down in the street or dying alone in front of the TV. She says she hates hospitals. She says when Gil was sick she hated seeing him there. Elizabeth looks at the bottle of heart pills and then opens it up. She pours them all out and sits down nearby.
The woman looks at her then nods and takes several of the pills then drinks some water. Stan waits outside in the hall with the food tray when Zinaida hears a noise and calls his name. Oleg is in her room and says he’ll put a bullet in her head if she calls out. She asks who he is and he says he’s a patriot unlike her. She asks what he wants and he says for her to recant everything she said about the war in Afghanistan.
He says then she has to return to Russia as a hero who has returned to her senses. He says she must do it in two weeks or he’ll come back and says next time there will be no talking. Stan comes into the room with her food. Oleg attacks him and hits him then runs out. Zinaida runs in calling for him and puts a cloth on his head. Paige tells Henry to go to bed and quit playing the video game. She’s reading the Bible.
Philip has the mail robot apart finally and slides the device into it. He hears noise upstairs. The woman asks Elizabeth if she’s married. She tells her it’s good to have a partner and says she and Gil were married twice. She says they got divorced and he remarried then his wife died and they got married again. She takes a few more of the pills. She says they no longer had sugar in their eyes.
She says the second time it stuck like glue. She says they were married 27 years the second round when he died. She says Gil would never talk about the other woman Helen he married who had been her best friend. She says he also never talked about the war. She asks Elizabeth if Gil sent her. Elizabeth says yes. She asks if he told her she’s afraid of pain and she says yes.
She asks if Gil is with Helen and Elizabeth says no. She says she doesn’t want anything to happen to Andy and says he’s a good boy. Elizabeth says it won’t then promises her he’ll be safe. She asks Elizabeth if she has children and she says yes. And she asks – and this is what you do. Elizabeth says sometimes. She asks if she does it alone but she says with her husband.
The woman asks why and she says to make the world a better place. She asks Elizabeth if doing this to her will make the world a better place and she says it will. The woman says that’s what evil people tell themselves when doing evil things. She’s shivering as she reaches for the last few pills. She says she can’t and is breathing heavy. She wheezes and stares upward then stops breathing altogether.
Philip is done and wipes down the robot. He tests the listening device. Elizabeth says they’ll find her body in the morning and it will look natural. He asks if she’s okay. She’s crying. She says they have to go and packs their tools. Stan reports to Aderholt and Gaad about the intruder in Zinaida’s room. He says he checked the room first. He tells Gaad he’s okay except for a headache.
Aderholt says aspirin works better with beer and Gaad says they’ll beef up her security. Later, Stan meets Oleg who tells him she didn’t panic, break or confess. Stan says maybe she was in shock thinking she was going to die. Oleg says no one has said anything at the Rezidentura. Stan takes some aspirin and sips a beer. Oleg says no thanks when he offers then asks about his head. Stan says it’s been better.
Oleg says he’s sorry to hit him so hard but smiles. He tells Stan to try it with a raw egg then says he’ll take a beer. Stan asks didn’t some part of him want to crack his head wide open. Gabriel is playing Scrabble with Philip who thinks he’s patronizing him when he says good word. Philip played geode and then Gabriel plays amatory which he says means loving.
Gabriel says he loves words and their origins. He says wedlock means perpetual battle. Philip asks what he means then doesn’t want to hear it. Philip plays sphinx and he tells him bravo. Philip says when he first saw Elizabeth it felt like a bolt of lightning and says it never happened before or since. Gabriel says Elizabeth rejected the first officer they presented her. He says she chose Philip in her own way.
Philip says it never felt like that to him. Gabriel says that doesn’t change that it’s true. He asks if Philip wants to tell him what’s going on and says he and Elizabeth both love him. Philip says the problem is Gabriel and all this talk because he thinks he can wrap him around his finger. He says he trusted Gabriel and his job was to look out for him. Philip says now his job is to look out for his family because no one else will.
THE END!
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