The Americans

Previously on 'The Americans'

So, we take orders from you now?

Think of me as Gabriel, but... Prettier.

Coming to you live from the home of The Secretary of Defense.

The prime minister fully supports your efforts

To build a ballistic missile shield,

Provided it covers Europe, as well as the United States.

We're just starting out here. You're starting out.

The day you forced me to work for you,

My life got very scary.

I was 17 when I joined the KGB.

When we got here, I was 22 years old,

Living in a strange house in a strange country

With a strange man.

It never really happened for us,

But I feel like it's happening now.

Tensions escalated on the Polish border

As Soviet troops continued their show of force

In response to growing unrest

Inspired by the solidarity trade union movement.

Government sources called the Russian military exercises

Troubling and destabilizing. Where's Poland?

It's part of Russia.

Is that what Mr. Henrickson is teaching you?

Yeah. Same neighborhood.

You guys, we have to go. Come on.

You need to eat something. I'm not hungry.

Here. Take this with you.

Come on, Henry. Okay.

Um... Are we still on, or...?

Yeah, of course. Okay.

On for what?

None of your business. Let's go.

- Come on, come on, come on. - Henry, lunch.

Yeah. Thank you.

- Both Poland and potentially the entire Eastern Bloc.

No, you do.

So, gentlemen, customs just stopped

The son of the Romanian deputy chief of mission

On his way back to Bucharest with three pounds of marijuana.

Three pounds?

Well, he either really likes the stuff,

Or that's a commie with a little business instinct.

They're swinging him by here before they do their paperwork.

Do you know what they do with drug dealers in Romania?

Why don't you guys take a run at him,

See if he wants to keep his balls.

Privet.

Da.

This works. Trust me.

What time is the Romanian genius getting here?

Zdrast-vui-te.

Nyet.

Still waiting on him, sir.

Get in the vault. The president's been shot.

Let's go, people. Right now! Come on!

Thank you.

For what?

For making us take the afternoon off.

That's what you want to thank me for?

Mm-hmm.

This is the moment of the first gunshot.

Secret serviceman Jerry Parr falls on the president, Pushes him...

I need to know where every KGB officer in the country is

And what they've been doing for the past 24 hours.

Peters. On it.

Get everything you can from Secret Service about the shooter.

I need to know if he has

Any Soviet connection whatsoever.

This guy said "nyet" once in the past 10 years,

We're gonna find out when and where.

Yes, sir. Team on the embassy, sir?

Yeah, but not you.

The bullet is believed to,

- Be a .22-caliber bullet. - What happened?

From the .22-caliber weapon were fired... It's awful.

We're told by law-enforcement officers...

Just outside The Washington Hilton Hotel,

As The President emerged from that hotel

About 2:30 this afternoon Washington time.

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have The President,

The Vice-President, and The Secretary of State,

In that order, and should The President decide

He wants to transfer the helm to the Vice-President,

- He will do so. - What is...

As of now, I am in control here in the White House

Pending return of the Vice-President

And in close touch with him.

If something came up, I would check with him.

What's happening?

The President's been shot.

My god. Is he okay?

Nobody knows. News says he's in surgery.

James Brady, the 40-year-old White House press secretary...

I'll find Charles. I'll check the signal site

And go home and check the shortwave.

I'll see you at home.

Where are you on the shooter?

Eighth floor is in the process

Of putting together a bio and profile.

Is he a KGB operative?

The eighth floor will soon let us all know

That Hinckley worked at 31 flavors when he was 16.

Please, look for connections

To the Soviet Union and the Communist Party.

I want you to set up a meet A.S.A.P. with your friend.

The rezidentura are gonna be all over their people.

I'm aware of the risks.

But our number-one priority is finding out

What the KGB knows about this.

All right, I'll leave a signal

For her to meet in the next 24 hours.

Agent Beeman, we're operating on a tight time frame.

24 hours is like two weeks.

I understand that, sir,

But she's living her life in a tight time frame, too.

It gets even shorter if we're not careful.

I get it that you don't want to

Send her to the slaughterhouse.

But if the President has been shot by a KGB operative,

I want to know before nuclear missiles start

Whistling over my head.

You get to your girl. You get to her now.

Do you think what's on the news is true?

Sam Donaldson was there when the gun was fired. I believe him.

But since they closed the doors at George Washington,

No actual information's getting out.

It's all completely sanitized by the White House press office.

Can you get the real story?

Not today.

Look, Reagan's cronies love me.

There's nothing better

Than a former socialist turned conservative

Raising the hue and cry about the evils of communism,

But I am still a member of the press.

Today, I have no access at all.

What about the names of the nursing staff...

Those who were around the President?

Can you get me those?

That I could do.

Say I was writing a piece,

But those people aren't going to talk to you.

Just get me the names.

Frankly, I hope

The bastard bleeds to death on the operating table.

Your commitment to the struggle always was... Total.

White House press secretary James Brady is dead.

Jim brady, 40 years old, shot in the head in the attack

By what apparently was one of the first bullets fired.

Having looked at videotape so many times already,

That is the report.

And from congressional sources,

James brady has not survived his wounds.

No time for signals today, I'm afraid.

Philip's with Sparrow right now. Good.

You need to gather your supplies for Operation Christopher.

I've heard so much about you, Elizabeth...

What you've done.

I think we'll do great things together.

I really wish we didn't have to start this way.

I never asked. What are we supposed to call you?

Claudia.

Claudia.

Did we do this? I don't think so,

But they may try to pin it on us.

And we have no idea

Who's going to seize control of the American government now.

I've also heard rumors the Red Army might move

Into Poland in the next 24 hours.

But Operation Christopher?

You think this is headed toward guerrilla warfare?

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

First, we need you to find out

How the President is really doing.

We need to know who's in control of the American government.

And we need up-to-date intelligence

On any efforts to blame us for the assassination attempt.

Things are gonna happen fast.

The rezidentura will be worthless, slow, unreliable.

We both know it. I can say it.

We'll get as much information as we can,

Start preparations for Christopher immediately.

I know I can count on you.

I fought behind enemy lines in Stalingrad... two years.

I didn't have any experience, training...

None of what you have.

If it happens...

You'll do well.

The rumors about... about Jim Brady dying

Are absolutely untrue.

Hello?

Hi. This is Richard Deutsch from the Kennedy Center.

I had a few questions come up about the friendship concert.

This is not a good day.

Well, there are just a few logistical problems we're dealing with here.

Richard, I'm sorry. I'm not available for this.

Can you discuss tomorrow?

I'm sorry.

My supervisor said there's a deadline with our schedule.

Hello?