The Americans
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Elizabeth: I suppose she would have just drifted off.
Claudia: It's not usually that easy.
Elizabeth: Well, she's really gonna suffer now.
Claudia: You just have to keep her alive through the summit.
Claudia: What does she draw?
Elizabeth: People, faces, I don't know. Kind of strange.
Claudia: You don't like her work?
Elizabeth: I don't know why people like her spend their life doing that. At least her husband is doing something.
I can't tell you how much better I feel just dealing with murderers, drug dealers, and corrupt politicians. I'm serious.
Stan
Paige: What happened, Mom?
Elizabeth: What happened?! What happened is that you left your position and ran straight into the middle of the ... [phone rings]
Philip: I told her she'd have you to talk to.
Elizabeth: What do you think I was just doing?
Elizabeth: No matter how risky it is, it's OK.
Paige: What do you mean it's OK?
Elizabeth: That no matter what happens to me that if I'm fighting for something that important...
Paige: You don't care if you die?
Elizabeth: Well, of course I do. But I'm not afraid.
You can't live your life being afraid, Paige. You wouldn't do anything. You want to make a difference, you make a difference.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth: We cook, Claudia, Paige, and me. We watch old movies and listen to movies and talk. It feels... and then I walk out of there and it just hits me in the face. Here.
Philip: Yeah.
Elizabeth: I hate it, Philip.
Philip: Honestly, the way things are going, I think in a couple of years, we'll have Stan over here for Zharkoye.
Elizabeth: What are you talking about?
Philip: Things are changing back home, opening up, and it's not just politics, it's, it's young people, it's music, it's different. I mean, they're talking about opening a Pizza Hut in Moscow. You see the papers.
Elizabeth: What? The Washington Post? You know, all this talk, Perestroika and Glasnost. The Americans, they eat it up. They want us to be just like them. I don't want to be like them! And neither do the people back home!
Philip: You haven't talked to anyone back home in over 20 years.
Elizabeth: Neither have you.
Oleg: One thing I did learn here: they are not crazy. We can make peace with them. Now may be the best chance we can ever get. That's why I am here.
He loves me, he loves you, but somewhere ... something got lost. This work can get to be too much for people. Even the best ones. I'm so proud of you, Paige. Really proud.
Elizabeth
Erica: Is this it?
Nurse E: I don't have much free time.
Erica: Free time? Kind of a funny phrase. Is that what you call this? Free time? There should be dozens of drawings in here.
