The Americans
Wednesdays 10:00 PM on FXThe Americans Season 5 Episode 12: "The World Council of Churches" Quotes
Paige: How, exactly, did you get him this job?
Philip: The Soviet Union has worked hard for peace. It has a lot of friends in a lot of organizations all over the world.
Paige: Religious organizations?
Elizabeth: Well, some of them fight for justice, which is good enough for us. [Paige takes off her cross necklace and dumps it in the trask]
Stan Beeman was not my friend.
Oleg
Anatoli Victorovich, I'm sorry, but I questioned Ekaterina Rykova. And I'm telling you, she's just stuck in something. She's not someone who made things happen. She's actually trying to help put food on people's tables.
Oleg
You can't predict what a person's life will be, and you can't deny them the challenges that will shape them.
Pastor Tim
I slept through the night yesterday for the first time in like, forever.
Paige
Oleg: I think I'm going to aim for the middle, where I can get things done.
Igor [smiling]: Mmmhmm.
Oleg: I got someone out of jail, someone we'd been investigating.
Igor: An innocent person?
Oleg: She didn't deserve what we were going to do to her. She was just trying to...make things work.
Igor: That's the trick here half the time.
Oleg: It's screwed up though, Dad. Because the higher-ups -- I don't mean you -- but some...they're just shit. They'll take the break people are supposed to eat and make a fortune out of it.
Igor: Is that what you've been working on? Good for you. I don't mean to make you talk. I know how it works.
I raised you and your brother to be good, honest citizens. But these people, the ones who control these things, they don't want change. They'll fight back. And they'll win.
Igor
Igor: I couldn't help your mother. I had no power. No one did. Now I can crush people if I have to. And I'll crush them for you. To keep you safe. Not just because you're my son, but because you're good.
Oleg: I'm not bringing you down with me, it's too dangerous.
I don't care what it is. I'm your father, and I'll help you.
Igor