The Americans
Wednesdays 10:00 PM on FXThe Americans Season 6 Quotes
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.
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.
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
Philip: I told her she'd have you to talk to.
Elizabeth: What do you think I was just doing?
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]
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.
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.
I can't tell you how much better I feel just dealing with murderers, drug dealers, and corrupt politicians. I'm serious.
Stan
Philip: She's my wife.
Oleg: I understand. I left my wife and my baby boy to be here. I don't have any immunity, so if I'm arrested, I'm finished. If they catch me and send me back, I'll be shot. I'm here because the future of our country is being decided right now. And you know that. I'm sorry you have to make some dumb decision, too. I'll wait to hear from you.
Oleg: Everything is divided up. That's how [Arkady] explained it to me. This summit, it could be a turning point. We have a pretty good idea where you stand.
Philip: I'm not involved anymore. This doesn't involve me.
Oleg: We want you to find out what you're wife has been doing and tell us, and if you have to, stop her.
Oleg: We need your help.
Philip: We?
Oleg: The people running the organization right now have a very old life view of things, and Gorbachev doesn't have the power to get rid of them.
Philip: I'm out of it.
Oleg: I'm told. I wouldn't be here except some very powerful people out there to get rid of Gorbachev, to stop all the good things that have been happening lately in our country. Your wife had a meeting in Latin America with the General of Strategic Rocket Forces. Strange, right?
Philip: No stranger than us meeting here. My wife just does her job. That's all she's ever done. She's good at it.
Oleg: I know. But it's possible that she's being used by the people who are trying to stop all the progress that we've been making. Or she's one of them.
Elizabeth: It's hard to trust the Americans. There's a long history of these types of negotiations.
Paige: I know.
