Tonight on FX The Americans airs with another all new Wednesday, April 15 season 3 episode 12 called “I Am Abassin Zadran,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, Martha [Alison Wright] has a surprise guest; Philip [Matthew Rhys] and Elizabeth [Keri Russell] encounter a menacing mujahideen commander; Paige [Holly Taylor] acts out.
On the last episode, Philip and Elizabeth’s home and work lives collided in a new and dangerous ways. Nina struggled to figure out her next steps. Arkady assigned Oleg and Tatiana to an operation with uncertain potential. 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 say the FX synopsis “Martha hosts an unexpected guest. Philip and Elizabeth must work a formidable Mujahideen commander. Paige acts out. Written by Peter Ackerman & Stuart Zicherman; directed by Christopher Misiano.”
Tonight’s episode looks like it is going to be a great finale episode and you won’t want to miss it, so be sure to tune in for our live coverage of FX’s “The Americans” Season 3 Episode 12- at 10 PM EST! While you wait for the recap, check out our sneak peek video of tonight’s episode below!
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On #TheAmericans, Elizabeth is in a telephone maintenance uniform and heads into the hotel. Philip lurks in a stairwell then goes into room 629. She’s down in the basement and has a phone jack. She plugs into the phone lines and Philip picks up the receiver. She clips the lines and tries line after line. He says he’s trying to reach housekeeping and she says it’s housekeeping. He exits the room and she fixes a wire into the phone system and walks out. They get home and find Henry watching TV.
Paige isn’t there but he says she left a note. It says she’s at church and is staying the night at Pastor Tim’s afterward. Philip doesn’t like it and calls the house but just gets the machine. He asks them to have Paige call them and Elizabeth says they should both go over there since they don’t know what they’re dealing with. They tell Henry they’ll be back in a bit and they leave. They sit outside the pastor’s house but no one is there. Philip asks how long a church lecture goes and she has no clue.
The car pulls up and Philip and Elizabeth bicker over how to handle it. They walk over and Tim asks if everything is okay. They tell Paige it’s a school night and she can’t just leave a note and run off. Paige says she’s staying and her dad says no. Tim tells her that her parents are right then tells Philip and Elizabeth that he’s sorry and says he appreciate the rates for the Kenya trip. His wife brings out her bag and they tell Paige goodnight.
They drive home and Paige broods in the backseat. They pull into the garage and Elizabeth tells her to stay put. She says that was not okay and Philip asks if she thinks this is a game and says they have to be able to trust her. Elizabeth asks if she said anything to Pastor Tim and Paige sasses her. They confront her and tell her that they’re not saying she can’t see them but she has to act if everything is normal. She says it’s not then says she didn’t tell him. She asks to go inside.
They step aside and let her pass. Elizabeth asks if he has to go to Martha’s tonight and he says yeah. She follows Paige into the house and he goes to see his wife. He looks at the cars around her place and sees a car with a guy in it and veers off. Stan is upstairs and Martha talks about painting the apartment. He says he’s sorry to drop by and says it’s hard to talk at the office. He says he watched her stare into her coffee mug for a minute and she says she was begging it to wake her up. They laugh.
Stan says she seems distracted and wanted to make sure she’s okay. She says it’s hectic with Taffet there and says Gad’s schedule is exhausting. He says they know the secretaries make the place run and don’t always get the credit they deserve. Martha asks why he’s there and says she heard gossip at work about his marriage and says she’s not the right person for him to talk to. He says he just wanted her to know she can come to him. She says okay and calls him Agent Beeman.
She says she has an early morning and it’s getting late. He stands to go. She lets him out and he says he’ll see her tomorrow. She locks the door and then freezes, looking concerned. She goes to a drawer and opens it and pulls out her wedding photo with Clark. She looks pained. Philip comes home and surprises Elizabeth. He says Hans waved him off and said a guy with government plates went into her apartment. He says she left him two messages so far and says Hans did good.
She asks what now and Philip says he doesn’t know. Martha leaves her apartment the next morning and Hans pulls up and says he’s a friend of Clark’s. She asks if he’s all right and he opens the door for her to get in. She does. He pulls away. Elizabeth coaches her Northrup spy about how to use the purse with the camera. Her husband asks a lot of questions and Elizabeth says to take a lot of pictures and then gives her a low dose sedative to keep her calm. She says she’ll meet her after like the agreed.
Hans takes Martha to meet Philip. She asks what they’re doing and who that man was. He says he came last night but saw someone go into her apartment and he was driving a car with government plates. She says it was Stan and he asks what he wanted. She says he told her to come to him if she has anything on her mind. Philip says they may have to go away someplace new and says it will be okay. Martha says she can’t but Philip says they don’t know or they would be bugging her phones and following her.
He promises he will figure it out. Aderholt chases Stan down and says he has some more questions about Nina. He asks what’s with him and he says he thinks something was going on between Stan and Nina and asks Stan if he planted the bug. Stan tells him no and says Aderholt isn’t as smart as he looks. He says maybe the woman he shot kicked his ass and killed Amadore. He says their office is a target and the aliens got to someone on the inside. The mail truck cruises by – they hear it all. Clerks are live transcribing this conversation. Oleg waits for the translations.
Elizabeth meets Maurice but she was expecting Lisa. She says that wasn’t the deal and he says he’s handling this side of things. She swaps money for the camera and tells him she wants to see Lisa next time in person and he blows her off. Arkady says the mail robot microphone is a waste of money. Oleg and his female partner think he’s giving up too soon. Later, Philip tells Elizabeth about Stan showing up at Martha’s place and they wonder what it means.
Paige comes in with a photo album and asks about people in the photos. She asks about Aunt Helen and asks who these people are and they tell her to lower her voice. She says it’s a lie and tells her mother not to touch her. Paige stalks out.
Martha sits down with a glass of wine and makes a call to her mom and dad. She asks how they are and says she just wanted to talk to her. She says her life is great and that Clark is busy working and so is she. She says it’s just hard sometimes. She says she has vacation saved up but doesn’t want to leave right now. She tells her mom she’s fine and asks what they’re doing for their anniversary. Philip goes to talk to Paige and closes the door to her room for privacy. He sits down beside her with some photos.
He says there is no Aunt Helen and says her mom wasn’t well and needed time to recover. He says it’s not all a lie. He gives her a photo and says that’s her the night Henry was born at the hospital. He shows her another of when they went camping when she was seven. She says Henry was afraid a bear was going to eat him and her dad says he didn’t know that. Oleg looks over some transcripts and his coworker tells him ending this is a mistake but Arkady doesn’t see it.
He says Arkady has always looked out for him and she says he should look out for him now. She says this operation has a lot of potential and Arkady may not get many more chances like this. Philip tells Elizabeth she should go home to see her mom and take Paige with her and says if she doesn’t, he will. At the hotel, Philip says he’s there to pick up Abassin Zadran. The security guy makes a call and Elizabeth intercepts the call and gives him clearance to take the guy.
Philip introduces Abassin to Elizabeth as a CIA operative. She talks to him about anti-aircraft weapons and they ask him how well he knows the men he traveled with and Philip says he suspects they may sabotage the meeting and they rattle off some very impressive information. Abassin asks them why there is no war in American when Afghanistan is always at war when they have nothing and just want to live on their land in peace. He says his men are in the mountains and he doesn’t know the others.
He says his men want to fight and die as martyrs. He says martyrs are entombed as they fall soaked in blood because they’re honor is so great. He says he hates traitors. Philip says if Abassin was to go to the meeting alone, it would work out. He asks Philip what his intelligence says about him and Elizabeth says he’s loyal and brave. He says he cuts the throats of the communists and has killed many with his knife and watched them die.
He says he found young Soviet soldiers swimming and laughing and cut them down. He says if there were 200 infidels on the road, he would cut every one of them like a goat. Gabriel is having breakfast with Claudia. She says Philip will slow up progress with Paige. He says he’s not certain it’s the right thing for Philip and Elizabeth. She asks if he wishes he didn’t come back and he says it was dull. He asks what happened at the center when they heard the boy killed his family.
Claudia says she’d never seen anything like it and she says they fired the head of the American department and she says she thought they might shut down with Directorate S. Gabriel says they still want to try it again with Paige and Claudia says they think Gabriel can pull it off. Abassin tells the security guy he needs to speak with his friends and they let him go. He goes and knocks on their door and asks them to come have tea. They go into one of the rooms. The guard relaxes.
There are screams and scuffling sounds and the guards come running. The door is dead bolted and they have to bust it in. They go inside and find only Abassin still standing. The other two were gutted. They tell him to drop the knife. He glares. Oleg and his sidekick try and talk to Arkady about keeping the project going. They read him a transcript about people talking about going to a movie. She says they could be flirting and says they are possible adulterers. Oleg says to please give it some time.
Paige lies in bed when Elizabeth comes to talk to her. She turns on her radio up to a certain volume then goes to sit near Paige. She says she’s going to see her mother in Russia before she dies. She says she talked to her dad and they think she should go with her. She says it will be her only chance to meet her grandmother but it’s her choice. Hans sits outside of Martha’s place as Philip goes upstairs. He finds her sitting on the bed with her suitcase packed. She says she’s sorry but she’s going to her parents.
She says she needs a break and says she can’t take it. She says everyone knows she’s lying and he’s not there when she gets home. Philip says he knows it’s hard but he’s trying. She says she knows but it’s not enough. She tells him she’s sorry and cries. She says she doesn’t even know what to say to her mother and says she can’t be here with him like this.
She says she was 18 when she left home and told her mom to turn her room into a sewing room but she wouldn’t do it. She stands and Philip speaks her name. He takes off his glasses and then pulls off his hair piece while she watches. She gasps. He pulls out stray pins and hair pieces and lets her see the real him.
THE END!
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