Tonight on FX The Americans airs with an all new Tuesday, March 7, 2017 episode and we have your The Americans recap below. On tonight’s The American’s season 5 premiere called, “Amber Waves,” as per the FX synopsis, “In the Season 5 premiere, the Centre sends a new operation unlike anything before to Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth, (Keri Russell) which puts more strain on their already tense marriage and family life.”
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Tonight’s episode of The Americans kicks off at a high-school, a kid named Tuan joins a kid at the lunch table named Pasha. They’re both new at the school, Pasha’s English is a little shaky, he just moved to the US from Moscow two months ago.
After school, Tuan brings his friend Pasha home to hang out, his parent’s are in the kitchen – Phillip and Elizabeth.
Stan heads to work at the FBI office, his boss calls him in to his office and announces that Oleg boarded a plane last night and flew back to Moscow.
Elizabeth and Phillip head to their fake house to check in on Tuan, apparently he’s a spy for them. And, Pasha is his mark. Elizabeth and Philip are interested in Pasha’s father, it sounds like he is a Russian traitor that fled the country.
In Moscow, Oleg is home with his mother. She’s thrilled to have him back from the US, she confesses that she misses his brother terribly and hasn’t been sleeping or doing well since he passed away.
Elizabeth and Phillip return to their real home, and are cooking dinner for their actual kids. Paige returns home, she’s not hungry, she has dinner at Stan’s house with him and his teenage son. Apparently, she’s been spending a lot of time there.
Little does Phillip know, his adult son that he has never met is headed to the United States to track him down, and he’s a nervous wreck at the airport, waiting to go through customs.
The next night, Tuan takes his fake parents Elizabeth and Philip to his friend Pasha’s house to have dinner with his parents. Over dinner, Pasha’s dad talks about where he lived in Soviet Union and how horrible it was. He explains that he works for the US government, he’s a consultant, and he gets paid to tell them all about what life is like in the Soviet Union.
Paige shows up at Stan’s door, he says that his son Matthew is in the shower. While they are waiting forMatthew, Stan thanks Paige for being such a great friend to Matthew and making his transition to his dad’s house so much easier.
Matthew, Stan thanks Paige for being such a great friend to Matthew and making his transition to his dad’s house so much easier.
Elizabeth and Phillip return home to their real family – Paige is just getting home from Stan’s again. Phillip isn’t thrilled about her dating Stan’s son. He tries to convince her she should check out some other guys her age. Paige doesn’t want to talk about Matthew, she tells her parents that she has bigger problems, ever since she saw Elizabeth kill a man, she hasn’t been able to sleep and is having nightmares. Elizabeth chases Paige upstairs to try and talk to her.
Stan stops by to have a beer with Phillip, he’s thrilled about Paige and Matthew’s budding relationship. And, he fills Phillip in on a hot new girl he saw at the gym and wants to ask out on a date.
The next day, Elizabeth confronts Paige, she says she is going to make her nightmares go away. She takes Paige to the garage and begins shoving her. Paige is obviously confused, then Elizabeth begins teaching her how to defend herself, and fight off any potential attackers. Later that evening while Phillip is decrypting a message, Elizabeth tells him about Paige’s lesson.
In Moscow, Oleg heads to his first day at his new job. He meets with his boss, a Colonel, who explains the details of what his job entails. He’ll be handling criminal investigations.
Elizabeth and Phillip meet up with their handler at the safe house. He tells them that he thinks they know what happened to William. After he infected himself with Lassa fever, he was detained at Fort Diedrick where he died. The handler pulls out a map of Fort Diedrick.
Elizabeth and Phillip head out to Fort Diedrick in the middle of the night, and meet up with four other operatives dressed in all black. They cut down a chain link fence and sneak in the back of the fort in the dark. They spend the entire night digging u a grave in the back of the fort. They finally reach a coffin and find William’s body inside wrapped in plastic. Phillip uses a scalpel and cuts a piece of hunk of flesh off from dead William’s leg and puts it in a plastic bag.
While they are preparing to put the grave back together, one of the men falls in the hole and cuts his hand open and lands on William’s body. There’s a good chance he has been contaminated. One of the men shoots him in the head and kills him, and they toss him in the coffin with William just to be on the safe side.
THE END!
