The Americans

Man: Part of him knows

the power's real.

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Streiter: Burov is back in Moscow.

This is obviously a good opportunity for us.

We can go with the tape you made of him

admitting their defector was actually KGB.

You're going to get him killed.

Burov gave us the tip of the century

and then went home to live his life.

Alexei: I am a consultant for your department of agriculture.

Gabriel: Half our grain comes from America and its allies.

If they're doing something to it,

people will starve.

Does Morozov know about bugs?

I don't know.

He's an agricultural expert.

Paige, listen... I'll just be alone for the rest of my life.

Would that make you feel better?

There's something we can show you.

If you can learn this thing, really master it,

you can keep seeing him.

Aw.

Oh, you will do better, Pashenka.

Don't sweat it, man.

The first time I bowled, I threw the ball so hard

it went into the Lane next to me

and knocked down some other guy's pins.

Start at least four steps from the foul line.

Bend at the knees

and aim for the arrows in the Lane.

Blind leading blind.

In Russia, we have bowling alley in Gorky park.

Pasha was little, hard to push ball,

so I stand behind him and help give ball push.

One time he go down... Down Lane with ball.

You remember?

Another time, ball don't move.

Very popular in Russia.

Very popular.

And then place went to shit.

Again with this.

Wood cracks, ball chip.

Russians can't keep something simple

as a bowling alley, okay.

Your turn, dad. Oh.

People don't have any power to make better.

System destroy everybody who tries to make change.

You see pasha is unhappy.

Tuan is a friend now.

He will be okay.

Where did he go?

Uh...

We have different time growing up.

Evgheniya view and my view on Soviet union is different.

When I was 14,

they drag my father out of our apartment in night,

no talking, no explaining.

Six months later, letter come, tell us he's in camp.

So my mother and I, we ride train to see him.

Take us nine days to get there.

And it's horrible. Just horrible.

Prisoners outside for everybody to see,

with lice, starving to death, not human.

We wait in the room for two days.

And the guard comes and tell us

my father is not allowed any visitors.

He die 15 years later.

They never let us see him.

That is the Soviet union I know.

Sounds like Evgheniya and pasha

didn't know Alexei was planning to defect.

What do you mean?

She was angry at him about not telling them

they were coming here.

He must've just put them in a car one day,

and it was the CIA taking them out of the country.

How could somebody do something like that?

That man really hates his country.

One day the U.S. will destroy the USSR,

just like they did Vietnam.

I'd like to see what Alexei has to say

when everyone and everything he ever knew in Russia

is wiped out.

Well, hopefully, we'll prevent that from happening.

Yes. Of course.

I just meant...

He's a traitor.

Okay if I drop you at the house?

Yes.

I was just thinking how we would have done it

if we had to go back.

Tell them first or when we got there?

It's different.

Alexei didn't have to run.

He wanted to come here and be a big shot.

He didn't give a shit what his family thought.

He gets them here, buys them big meals at Bennigan's,

and he's starting a famine back home.

Tuan's right.

He should be shot.

That was smart, him throwing the gutter balls

to make pasha feel better.

He's got great instincts.

Did Paige say anything about Matthew?

Mnh-mnh.

She can't handle this.

Any of it.

What if we tell her about this operation?

It's a good thing. She'll get it.

I don't know...

Compared to this,

Matthew Beeman won't seem so important.

Just as I suspected. A closet general.

Step right this way, sir.

Crap. Check outside.

Hi, honey.

Hi. All clear.

Where are you taking him?

Henry here?

Nope.

What?

Oh.

All we need is for somebody to salute him.

You're gonna be returning it as a reflex.

Okay.

We think the U.S. government

is planning to attack the Soviet union's grain supply.

What? We found a greenhouse they've got

where they're testing pests

that can destroy entire wheat crops.

I know it's a shocking thing to hear.

But... that's something that they do.

They go after us any way they can,

including the food people eat.

We're not a rich country.

So nuclear weapons aren't bad enough?

If we stop this,

then a lot of people won't have to suffer.

Can you stop them?

Uh, we're trying.

How?

Last year, the, uh, the CIA snuck an agricultural expert

out of the Soviet union.

And he's advising them on all of their grain stuff.

And we found him.

And now we're developing a relationship with him.

In secret.

He's... he's a source?

Yeah. Yeah. Something like that.

How can you trust what he tells you?

Well, we don't necessarily trust what anyone tells us.

But we can get a sense from people,

and sometimes we can check their information.

But... aren't you afraid

that people will call the police on you

or tell somebody or something?

We take precautions.

Like what? We don't tell them our real names.

So they just think you're, like... other people?

So who does the Russian guy think you are?

A pilot

and his wife, who's a stewardess.

Are you pretending to be his friend?

Sometimes we do that, yes.

To get the information that we need.

Is it hard, pretending to be other people?

Yeah. Sometimes it's really hard.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, last week.

Saturday, Monday, Thursday, week before last.

So far this week, it's been Tuesday and Wednesday...

So no regular shifts that I see.

It would be easier if I had a dog to walk.

How's, um... how's pasha?

He wants me to tell him how to be cool... how to dress.

Like changing his shirt is gonna make anybody like him.

He should try learning a few more words in English

and quit talking about how much he hates his dad.

He's lucky he has a dad.

He's always picking at his food,

while his mother is telling him what to eat,

like a baby.

Back home, I ate garbage off the street most days.

Other days, I never ate at all.

My father died when I was six.

In the war?

No, after.

But before...

Before he died, there wasn't enough food.

Not as bad as you, but... we went hungry a lot.

Here you go.

Hello, Anatoli.

We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In case you can't tell from our suits.

We're sorry to disturb your lunch.

We only want to talk to you for two or three minutes.

We know you work for Aeroflot.