EPISODE

S5E13 · The Soviet Division

The riveting season finale of The Americans finds Philip and Elizabeth racing against the clock as a life hangs in the balance, while Stan faces an uncertain future.

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The Jenningses and Tuan discover Pasha wounded but alive. As a result, Evgheniya agrees to take him back to Moscow without her husband. Tuan criticizes the Jenningses for their "petty bourgeois" concerns, and Elizabeth tells Tuan that he will fail without a partner. Gennadi passes an FBI polygraph test. Renee moves in with Stan because of flooding in her apartment and talks him out of leaving counterintelligence. In Moscow, Martha's language instructor, after consulting with Gabriel, tells her that she will be allowed to adopt a young orphan named Olya. Philip and Elizabeth make their final decision to return home to the USSR with their children, who have not been told. Henry and Chris are admitted to the boarding school, but Philip tells Henry, without explanation, that he cannot go. Paige continues training with Elizabeth. Philip tells Kimmy that he may take a job overseas but he later learns that Kimmy's father Isaac is being promoted to head of the CIA's Soviet division. Philip and Elizabeth agree that they will have to stay in the US to continue the Kimmy operation and Elizabeth volunteers to handle new assignments by herself.

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