The Americans (2013–2018): Season 5, Episode 10 - Darkroom - full transcript

Previously on The Americans...

Where did you tell your coworkers

you were going today?

She was pretty nervous.

Let's get her off the street.

The man you photographed Evgheniya with

is most likely going to be

Deputy Chief
of the CIA's Moscow station.

The Centre will probably
want her back in Moscow with him

so they can use the affair against him.

There's these kids at school.



They could make things
really bad for Pasha.

Bad enough that his mom

would want to take him home to Moscow?

It could work.

Kvass.

Best I ever made.

Mm. I like it.

Mm? Yeah?

Yeah.

Nice here when nobody home.

Peaceful. No fights...

You fight with Dee?

She's my wife,

I'm gonna fight with her, right?



Although, it's been pretty good lately.

I mean,
helps that we never see each other...

What about Tuan?

You... have nice relationship with him?

Mm. Sure.

I mean,
I-I know he looks pretty even-tempered,

but, um, Tuan can be a handful.

Me and Pasha, you know,
we fight all the time.

You see this, right? Mm.

But now? No fights.

He just quiet.

He like dog, somebody beat with stick.

Just sad. Sad. Very sad boy.

Promise not to say to Evgheniya
what I tell you now-okay?

Of course.

I miss kvass.

Talk with friends.

The street I live in.

This place-it have food,

have money but not so easy to be happy.

Have I tell you about my mother?

She was teacher of biology
at university.

And I go to her after her classes,

and we are going home,
and she must prepare dinner

after long day of work but she says,

"No, we go skating first."

And just like this, we go ice skating.

And we skate and skate and skate,

night comes, we still skate.

Just never want to stop.

My father was gone then. But...

Mama...

Moscow was nice city with my mother.

I know I made a mistake.

I'm... I'm sorry.

I f-I failed you. I failed my people.

Everything you've been through,

your family, your country...

you're special, Tuan.

I admire you.

I believe in you.

You're fighting so things like that

won't happen to other people.

I wish I could tell you it gets easier.

It doesn't.

But you can do this.

You can be great at it.

Thank you.

But don't make a mistake
like that again.

It's not worth it.

Did you report me?

No.

You hungry?

How'd it go?

Sounds like Pasha's doing worse.

He tell you about
the shit in his locker?

Human shit?

No.

I got this asshole Darren Burke
to get some from his dog,

put it in a bag,
then him and his friends

dump it out in Pasha's locker.

They thought it was
the funniest thing in the world.

Pasha has no idea I got them to do it.

I'm not sure that they know
I got them to do it.

Good.

Honey? Hi.

What are you doing?

Cleaning.

It's a little late.

Hey.

What's going on?

Hey, hey.

Did you babysit tonight?

Yeah. Did something happen?

Pastor Tim thinks
I might really be screwed up.

He's worried about my soul.

He said that?

No. I-I read his diary again.

I know I shouldn't have,

you don't have to say that.

Paige, he doesn't know anything.

You can't listen to him.

He cares about me.
You said that yourself.

He doesn't really know you.

I don't know.

I think...

maybe I am screwed up.

Because of...

Pastor Tim thinks
it's because of all the lying...

Everyone thinks they're screwed up.

That's what I've learned.

It wasn't exactly lying, Paige.

We kept things from you. We had to.

To protect you and our family.

And when you were ready we told you.

Can't you just see him there,

writing in his diary every night,

making his little observations

about everyone, his parishioners, us...

He should've kept it locked
in a goddamn safe.

Why? He's got God on his side.

What could go wrong?

Paige isn't gonna get over this so easy.

She'll be fine. I don't know.

This whole thing. All of it.

She's not the type of kid
who can put things behind her.

She's not.

But it's not all bad.

She's starting to see him

for what he is.

Hey. Come in.

Hello.

Was there any problem?

No. It was easy.

I took the elevator from my apartment.

And nobody in elevator.
Nobody in hallway.

So you rent this place
in my building just to see me?

Is so expensive.

Well, we told you we'd do
what we had to to keep you safe.

So, how's it going with the dentist?

Wow.

I was there four times. Good.

Thank you.

Sure. No, I really thank you.

The pain is almost gone.

Oh, good.

There is a man...

We're getting closer,

and is getting better.

Well, that's great. Good for you.

So, who's the lucky guy?

He is a very famous man in Soviet Union.

Gennadi Bystrov. He was a defenseman.

Of Soviet national team.

They are champions Sure. Yeah, I know.

The Soviet national team. We know.

He is really nice and friendly.

Last time,
when he came to United States,

uh, he, uh, brought the gift for my boy.

Hockey... shirt.

My boy loves it.

Oh, he visits you here? Bystrov?

Yes, he carries package over.
For government.

Oh, well, that's great.
So you get to see him a lot.

Sounds like he gets along well
with your son...

My son loves him.

He is very good man, Gennadi.

Anything good?

Something happened in Ghazni.

Mujahedeen were killed by some
kind of hemorrhagic fever.

We sent a sample of
the Lassa virus to the Centre.

That's a hemorrhagic fever.

We were told it was being
developed for defense.

In case Reagan...

I don't know anything about it.

I'm sorry...

We've been talking about Pastor Tim...

we're wondering if you think the Centre

might be able to get him a job offer.

Somewhere far away.

Anything else I should know about it?

Not really.

There are peace groups,

international religious councils.

Do you want me to look into it?

We'll let you know.

Um, the Centre analyzed
the wheat sample you sent.

They say it's remarkable.

They suspect it was bred partly
from a Kazakh variety,

which is surprising.

Stolen. From us.

Our agronomists are gonna be
working on it for some time.

Some time?

Years.

So you'll have to keep running
Stobert and Kemp long term.

Come in.

Hi.

Um, so your mom and I

have been talking about what happened.
What you read.

And we know you're upset about it...

We're upset about it.

We don't think you should have
to be around him anymore.

W-We don't think
you should have to manage him

for the rest of your life.

We had an idea...

we thought that maybe
we could talk to the people

we work with and they might
be able to get Pastor Tim

a job offer.

Doing something that would
make him really happy.

Maybe in Europe, maybe charity work,
something religious.

Somewhere far away.

Just if you wanted to think about that.

We didn't bring this up
before because we didn't think

it was something you would want, but...

I don't know... that that seems weird.

I mean, without him even knowing...?

We would only do it if it were something

that would be good for him.

And we'd never do it
if you didn't want us to.

What's going on
with the people who wanted

to destroy your crops
with the bugs and stuff?

It's not gonna happen.

You stopped it?

It was complicated.

But... they're not doing it now.

And we were able to get a sample
of the special kind of wheat

the US has been developing.

So maybe our country
can now grow better food.

I mean, it wasn't just us, but...
it does feel good

when you can make a difference.

You did something so huge,
and no one even knows.

That's how it works.

That was good. Yeah.

I have to go back to Topeka on the 19th.

More Tai Chi?

Yeah.

They better. I think. Some of them.

They know more words now
but how they say words.

The, um...

The pronunciation?

Yes. It's very bad. Yes.

It's hard to learn new language

when don't speak it all time.

That is how Tuan caught on.

No one spoke Vietnamese

so he was just forced to learn English.

Maybe we need speak
only English at home.

Help Pasha speak better.

That's what school is for.

Tuan learned so much faster

once he got around kids his own age.

School is...

School is not so good for Pasha.

I thought he was doing so much better.

No.

Some kid they...

they put... shit in Pasha locker.

Oh my God.

I never heard of this before.

How can person do that?

Now he hate school even more.

He don't want to go ever.

Every day we fight
to get him out of house.

I'm so sorry. I

Tuan always sort of had
an easy time with friends.

You know him, he's...
got that personality.

Didn't get it from me or Brad.

He's just positive.

And I think that
made things easier for him.

Well, Pasha not that way.

No.

But, you know, I-I know a lot of kids

who have gone through
that sort of thing.

Most kids at some point.
And it does get better.

What if not?

What if just worse?

Oh my God. It's so bad.

I know.

No. Not just Pasha.

I...

One of my student... we-we have sex.

I was so mad at Alexei.
We fight, fight all time.

And with my student, was so nice

and easy and fun and...

But now Alexei-he try. He try not fight.

He try be nice to me.

For Pasha, he say we must be strong.

I feel bad all time now.

What do you want to do?

I want make none of this happen.

I want my family be happy.

Then fight for that.

I think you'd be fantastic at it.

Well, we'll never know.

I told him if he sang one song.
Just one.

Then he could come to my softball games.

Hey. Give up. I am never doing karaoke.

I-I'm with you.

There-There's not enough
alcohol in the world...

Well, that leaves you, Elizabeth.

Well, still.

We should do dinner again soon.

Maybe next week? That

There's that new Indian on Sycamore.

Um,
I actually have to head home next week.

Oh. Yeah. Well, the-the week after?

For sure. Definitely. Great.

Yeah. All right. We'll see you then.

Great. Okay. Okay.

Good night. Bye. See ya.
Bye. Good night.

Okay.

Why does this bother you so much?

It just does.

The Centre has nothing to do with them,
come on.

And so what if they do?

I don't want Stan to be like Martha.

You're in the dark.

So what do you do?

You hold out your hands.

Makes sense.

You don't want to bump into anything.

But if someone turns on the light

and there's nothing there,
do you feel stupid?

You probably look pretty stupid.

If you'd felt something,
would that have made you smart?

The point is when
you're walking in the dark

you don't know the answer,

but you have an instinct
for how to move forward.

The instinct is neither right or wrong.

It just is.

We're all machines.

Say hello to the machine
sitting next to you.

Because that's what you are. Machines.

Go ahead. Say "hello."

Hello.
Your lives are mechanically programmed

stimulus, response stimulus, response

stimulus, response.

But if we're nothing more than machines

programmed to respond to stimuli,

what are we to make
of the notion of enlightenment?

Enlightenment is knowing the truth,

accepting that you are a machine.

You should go out. Get some air.

What?

Look, what he wrote about you, Paige...

you know, I-I still go to these
EST meetings sometimes...

and they make you think about
the hard stuff in life...

things that you've asked.

Like how did we end up doing this.

One of the things they say...
is who you are as a kid...

you don't have to stay that way.

Some of what he wrote...
it's like... about who I am.

Who he thinks I am.

It doesn't matter what he wrote.

Well, something was true about it.

Well You know that.

Even if he was to write something

that's true a little bit... so what?

He doesn't know who you are.

You could change his whole life
and he'd never even know it.

We can't make him take the job.

We'd just be giving him an opportunity.

That you know he'll want.

More or less.

Henry knows what he wants.

He's still a kid.

It's not like he wants
to get drunk and do drugs.

It It's nothing bad.

He knows there's a better place for him.

I think he'd be better off.

Henry's...

He's different.

Running low on beans.

Uh, the black ones?

Red.

Got it.

I think about the people
who need this stuff,

standing in line for food...

makes me feel pretty lucky.

I think you are.

Look where you've come in the last year,

how much you've grown.

You are definitely moving
in the right direction.

I don't know.

Sometimes I feel like...

You have a lot to handle,
but you're handling it.

Look to your faith.
Your faith will keep you strong.

"Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;

he will never let
the righteous be shaken."

You're gonna do great in life.

There's not a doubt
in my mind about that.

They transport the documents
on undeveloped film.

Spooled up around cotton,

with a prophylactic in the middle

a condom filled with ammonia.

Now, the courier doesn't know
how to defeat the trap.

The only person who does is
one officer at the Rezidentura.

But they transport a lot of other things

in the diplomatic pouch, too.

Guns, electronic devices,

circuit boards, other technology.

Things that they've stolen

and that they're sending back home.

The outer pouch is tamper-proof

all one-time locks and seals.

We've never gotten past them.

But since our last attempt
three years ago,

we've been working on a new approach.

Now, Bystrov comes in
approximately twice a month.

Always on diplomatic
Aeroflot flights to JFK.

The couriers work in pairs,

and one of them
always stays with the pouch.

Now,
when one of them has to use the bathroom

at the airport, they both go in.

One stays outside the stall,

while the other one takes the
pouch inside the stall with him.

That's the weak point.

Come on. Where are you taking me?

I don't like surprises, Philip.

It won't be long.

Do you remember when they gave us this?

This is everything.

Birth certificates,

Social Security cards,

driver's licenses.

Marriage license.

You want to make it official?

So... keep in mind,
I didn't have many options.

Gabriel ran this guy for years.

And he's from home.

This is Father Andrei.

You look different. No mustache.

I don't have to worry
about anyone seeing us.

You will be married.

As for the State,
whoever comes to Moscow first

will have to file the paperwork

It's okay.

Take them off.

I know it's not perfect
with God and everything

The Lindens want an adjoining
room now in Acapulco.

They didn't think their daughter
was coming. Now she is.

I have to call the hotel rep tomorrow

about the trip anyway, so...

Okay.

How was babysitting?

Fine. Where's Henry?

Chris's.

Listen...

I-I took some pictures...

of his diary.

I was really careful.

I've been thinking about what you said,

and I decided...
I do want you to get him that job offer.

I'm not mad at him.

He's been really good to me,

but he hasn't been good for our family.

And since it'll be good for him too...

All right...

Good.

I thought if I photographed his diary,

maybe there'd be something in there

that could help you and your people...

figure out his new job.

There's an entry about how much
he enjoyed volunteering

in South America just after college.

He said he felt really connected
to the people and the place...

I didn't want to take the film
to Fotomat or anything.

her gaze hit the side of mine

so I opened it out

to destroy what you thought
was difference

so I lied to you once again

so I painted over you once again

so I die before you once again

"what's the difference?"

come clearly where the flavor is

seen here in black and white

you've got two seconds, baby boy

in burning light, white light

"what's the difference?"

shivering under lampposts

shivering under glass

you're standing on charisma again

God knows it cannot last

"what's the difference?"

ice inside your body

blood inside your soul

yet, still, 12 faces stand around

hugging your skinny bones

"what's the difference?"

so clear up what you are

burn out these eyes

"I am your slice of life

I am your slice of life