The BEST episodes written by Joe Weisberg
#1 - START
The Americans (2013) - Season 6 - Episode 10
In the series finale, the Jennings face a choice that will change their lives forever.
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#2 - Jennings, Elizabeth
The Americans (2013) - Season 6 - Episode 9
Elizabeth wrestles with competing loyalties, and Philip has an encounter that turns into much more than he had bargained for.
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#3 - The Colonel
The Americans (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 13
When Philip and Elizabeth are ordered to go through with a meeting that could potentially be a set-up, they find themselves confronted with unexpected truths about their relationship. Stan's investigation puts him and the FBI even closer to Philip and Elizabeth.
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#4 - Echo
The Americans (2013) - Season 2 - Episode 13
No one is safe as Philip and Elizabeth evacuate their children while trying to complete the mission. Stan holds Nina's future in his hands.
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#5 - March 8, 1983
The Americans (2013) - Season 3 - Episode 13
Elizabeth and Paige take a trip that lands them in treacherous territory. After an emotionally charged mission, Philip turns to an unlikely source for solace. Stan’s plan to save Nina culminates in unforeseen ways.
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#6 - Stingers
The Americans (2013) - Season 3 - Episode 10
Philip and Elizabeth deploy a plan for the C.I.A.’s Mujahideen visitors. Tensions at the Jennings’ home escalate.
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#7 - Pilot
The Americans (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War. Tensions heighten upon the arrival of a new neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI agent.
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#8 - Dead Hand
The Americans (2013) - Season 6 - Episode 1
It’s autumn, 1987, and as a major arms control summit looms, Elizabeth is pushed to her limits as never before. Philip, meanwhile, has settled into running the newly expanded travel agency – until an unexpected visitor makes a disquieting request.
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#9 - Persona Non Grata
The Americans (2013) - Season 4 - Episode 13
Philip and Elizabeth are in a high-stakes race against the FBI to recover a hazardous package. Will they get there in time? And will Paige follow her parents into the family business?
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#10 - A Roy Rogers in Franconia
The Americans (2013) - Season 4 - Episode 12
As Paige deals with last episode’s trauma, she sees her mother in a new light… and finds she has inherited some of her parents’ skills. Plus, has Oleg reached his breaking point with Stan?
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#11 - Comrades
The Americans (2013) - Season 2 - Episode 1
Elizabeth comes back from her injury and straight into what should have been a routine mission – but it goes awry, leaving her and Philip in fear not only for themselves but for their whole network… and family. Paige's suspicions have only grown in her mother's absence. Meanwhile, Stan continues to fall for the Russian agent who has started to play him.
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#12 - In Control
The Americans (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 4
When an assassin attempts to kill President Reagan, Philip and Elizabeth scramble to handle the fallout within the KGB. Meanwhile, Stan pressures his source within the Rezidentura to find out if the KGB was responsible for the attempted assassination.
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#13 - Love and Other Acts of Courage
Falling Skies - Season 2 - Episode 5
A familiar face returns to the 2nd Mass, but his intentions remain unknown. Meanwhile, a skitter is captured and brought back to the camp as a prisoner. And Hal bonds with Maggie as she begins to open up about her past.
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#14 - The Soviet Division
The Americans (2013) - Season 5 - Episode 13
Philip and Elizabeth race against the clock as a life hangs in the balance, while Stan faces an uncertain future.
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#15 - Mutually Assured Destruction
The Americans (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 8
Philip and Elizabeth must stop an assassin from taking out key US scientists, while Stan and the FBI hunt the same man. Grannie shocks Elizabeth with the truth of what happened between Philip and Irina in New York.
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#16 - The Clock
The Americans (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 2
When Philip and Elizabeth are given an urgent task to plant a bug in Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's office, they risk exposure when an unwilling maid of the Weinberger home refuses to cooperate. Stan closes in on a member of the Soviet Rezidentura in an effort to uncover the identities of deep cover Directorate S operatives.
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#17 - Amber Waves
The Americans (2013) - Season 5 - Episode 1
The fifth and penultimate season has the Jennings struggling to contain the risks from Paige's growing relationship with Matthew Beeman. The Centre sends Philip and Elizabeth on an operation unlike any they've ever had before, straining their family and marriage to its limits.
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#18 - Operation Chronicle
The Americans (2013) - Season 2 - Episode 12
With Larrick closing in, Elizabeth rushes to exfiltrate Jared while Philip readies Fred for a crucial mission. Arkady finally plays his hand, forcing Stan to make an impossible choice.
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#19 - Pastor Tim
The Americans (2013) - Season 4 - Episode 2
Philip tries with increasing desperation to get rid of a sensitive and dangerous package as family tensions in the Jennings House reach a boiling point when Paige shares a secret of her own.
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#21 - The World Council of Churches
The Americans (2013) - Season 5 - Episode 12
As Philip and Elizabeth grapple with a momentous decision, Tuan takes matters into his own hands in the Morozov operation. Back in Russia, Oleg’s investigation collides with the realities of the Soviet system.
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#22 - Tchaikovsky
The Americans (2013) - Season 6 - Episode 2
Elizabeth targets an old source who could tip the balance of the upcoming summit, as Philip deals with business at the travel agency. Stan learns an old friend is back in town.
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#23 - Glanders
The Americans (2013) - Season 4 - Episode 1
Philip and Elizabeth deal with the fallout of all they’ve wrought. What will happen when the FBI finds out about Gene’s suicide? How will Pastor Tim deal with the revelation that they are Russian spies? And will they be able to handle a dangerous, new bioweapons assignment?
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#24 - Cardinal
The Americans (2013) - Season 2 - Episode 2
As Philip investigates the fallout from the last operation, Elizabeth sticks close to home, concerned for her family until she gets a mysterious distress signal. Meanwhile, a walk-in arrives at the Rezidentura - providing both Nina and Stan with unique opportunities.
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#25 - EST Men
The Americans (2013) - Season 3 - Episode 1
Tensions simmer between Philip and Elizabeth as they disagree over handling orders from the Centre. When Elizabeth loses key intel, Philip enlists Annelise on a mission with an unexpected outcome. Stan tries a new approach to mending his marriage with Sandra amidst learning tough news about Nina.
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#26 - Pests
The Americans (2013) - Season 5 - Episode 2
Stan and Oleg wrestle with the harsh consequences of their complicated history. Philip and Elizabeth face a new mission with devastating implications for their country.
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#27 - Mutiny
Falling Skies - Season 1 - Episode 9
As the 2nd Mass. prepares for a major assault, divisions within the ranks threaten to tear the group apart. Tom has difficulty processing the profound implications of Anne’s latest discovery.
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#28 - Baggage
The Americans (2013) - Season 3 - Episode 2
Elizabeth and Philip come together to deal with a mission gone wrong but struggle to reconcile their increasingly opposing ideologies. Stan welcomes a Soviet defector to America. Nina acclimates to her new living arrangements.
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#29 - The Cantor's Husband
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 10
For Sam, an unexpected decision shows progress towards his goals, but Dr. Strauss demands even more.
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#30 - Pastitsio
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 5
Sam reaches out to a woman from his past. Trials loom for Dr. Strauss, Sam, and Elias.
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#31 - Ezra
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 8
Dr. Strauss is honest with himself about his failures, past and present. A revelation about his relationship with Ezra leads him back to the urgency of escape. Sam loses faith in his doctor.
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#32 - Auschwitz
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 9
Dr. Strauss leaves nothing unsaid. Sam gives it another shot with Mary. An idea sparks for Sam, and everything seems to click together.
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#33 - Alan Learns to Meditate
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 2
Sam delves more deeply into the reason he entered therapy, but he encounters resistance from Dr. Strauss as he attempts to continue their sessions; a gathering sense of not being alone leads to a revelation about the house.
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#34 - Issues
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 3
Sam’s desire to find a therapeutic solution grows as his inner struggle intensifies; Dr. Strauss brings a new variable into their sessions.
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#35 - Silent Kill
Falling Skies - Season 1 - Episode 5
Hal comes up with a risky new plan to rescue captured teenagers from the aliens, but it might require putting someone at risk. Meanwhile, a sudden tragedy causes Anne to make an enormous discovery that proves instrumental to Hal’s risky plan.
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#36 - Company
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 4
On the threshold of crisis, Sam honors the promise Dr. Strauss made him make as a condition for continuing their work together; the trust built between patient and doctor is tested, with a life in the balance.
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#37 - Charlie
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 6
Dr. Strauss struggles with the reality he finds himself in. Sam is consumed with practical necessities, but agrees to his therapist’s advice to make different choices.
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#38 - Intake
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 1
Dr. Alan Strauss, a therapist mourning the death of his wife, takes on an enigmatic new client; as the two men wrestle with very different, individual problems, their professional relationship is transformed by a choice that binds them together.
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#39 - Kaddish
The Patient - Season 1 - Episode 7
Both Dr. Strauss and Sam try to make new connections in their pursuit of an elusive peace.
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