The Americans
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You gotta try. You gotta try. There's someone in there that knows how to see. But you gotta put in the time.That's what time is for. No one. No one, no one understands that.
Philip: What was that?
Elizabeth: None of your business.
Philip: Who were you telling her to sleep with?
Elizabeth: No one. I was telling her NOT to sleep with someone.
I need you to listen to this Kimmy, and it's important that you hear me. You're going to be OK.
Philip
Philip: Kimmy, When, um, when you're in Greece, if, if ... if someone tries to get you to go to a Communist country with them, don't, OK? Don't. go.
Kimmy: What?
Philip: Go to Greece, stay in Greece, and then come home. You hear me, Kimmy? Goodbye Kimmy.
Philip: We should talk because it's better not to let bad feelings fester.
Elizabeth: You can take your forum bullshit and shove it up your ass. One of us is in trouble, Philip. I'm going there to help him. Someone who still does his job. Someone who still gives a shit.
Don't ever buy your car from Pennysaver. It's not a completely reputable bunch.
Stan
Stan: You know, I used to ask myself, why is this guy and his wife coming home at three, four in the morning? How hard can they possibly work? What's driving them? And even now I see you and I wonder, what is going on with him? I see your stress level and I just ... I say this to you as a friend, OK? Are you involved with something?
Philip: Stan...
Stan: 'Cause if something's going on, you can trust me.
Philip: I've been wanting to tell you. The business is falling apart and I think it might be going under.
Philip: You look surprised.
Elizabeth: I wasn't sure you'd really come.
Elizabeth: I've got work.
Philip: When will you be back?
Elizabeth: Tomorrow night, if I'm lucky. Next week's the summit. [she touches his face]
Philip: Listen...
Elizabeth: I know Chicago was hard.
Philip: I don't care about that.
Elizabeth: But you do, and I know that you worry. Don't. Philip, I know what I'm doing.
Philip: Do you? You're wearing a cyanide pill around your neck.
Philip: I have to tell you something. Uh, a while back, someone from home reached out to me.
Elizabeth: What?
Philip: I tried to talk to you about it.
Elizabeth: When?
Philip: A few times.
Elizabeth: Who was it?
Philip: Some guy; it doesn't matter.
Elizabeth: What did he want?
Philip: He said there are people at the Center who want to get rid of Gorbachev. They're trying to prevent that.
Elizabeth: What does that have to do with you.
Philip: He said you met with a general of the strategic rocket forces who is a part of it. He asked me to tell him what you were doing.
Elizabeth: And?
Philip: I did.
Philip: You've always done exactly what they've told us to do. I was trying to get you to think. Yes. To ask questions. To be a human being about us.
Elizabeth: You don't think I'm a human being?!
Philip: That's not what I'm saying. I would do anything for you. I always did. I just did. But not anymore. You do whatever you want, but please, some of these things? We believed in something so big. They tell us what to do and we do it, I get it, that's how it works. But we do it, not them, so it's on us. All of it.
