The Clock (The Americans)

"The Clock"
The Americans episode
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Episode no.	Season 1_ Episode 2
Directed by	Adam Arkin
Written by	Joe Weisberg
Production code	BDU101_
Original air date	February 6, 2013 (2013-02-06)
Running time	49 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Richard Thomas as Frank Gaad Annet Mahendru as Nina Tonye Patano as Viola Johnson Meg Gibson as Mrs. Weinberger Peter Von Berg as Vasili Nikolaevich Lev Gorn as Arkady Ivanovich Anthony Arkin as Stavos Vitaly Benko as Vlad Gillian Alexy as Celia Gerard / Annelise James Andrew O'Connor as Clark Grantham Coleman as Grayson Marisa Redanty as Barb David Lomax as Albert Mark Zeisler as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Alice Spivak as Miss Radensky
Episode chronology
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The Americans (season 1) List of The Americans episodes

"The Clock" is the second episode of the first season of the period drama television series The Americans. It originally aired on FX in the United States on February 6, 2013.

Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) poses as a Swedish Intelligence Officer named Scott Birkeland at a cocktail party. He seduces Celia Gerard a.k.a. Annelise, (Gillian Alexy) the wife of an assistant undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Defense. Philip persuades her to take photos of the study in the home of United States Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, so that the KGB can plant a listening device. Annelise takes the photos in Weinberger's study by strapping a camera to her bra. Later, Philip and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) develop the photos in a darkroom and notice a clock in the study that can be bugged.

Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) and Chris Amador (Maximiliano Hernández) are watching a stereo store where Nina (Annet Mahendru), a woman working for the Soviet Embassy in Washington, enters and then leaves quickly with a large package. Stan and Chris confront the stereo store owner about her identity, and Chris finds a tin of Beluga caviar behind the counter.

Meanwhile, at the Soviet embassy, two men discuss the upcoming visit to the U.S. by Margaret Thatcher and John Nott, with intelligence that they are visiting Weinberger. Philip and Elizabeth are given three days to return to Weinberger's to plant the bug. Elizabeth, disguised, poisons a young college student named Grayson by injecting him with a needle attached to the end of an umbrella. Philip and Elizabeth go to the college student's house to see his mother, Viola Johnson (Tonye Patano), Weinberger's maid, and tell her that if she brings them the clock located in Weinberger's office, they will give her son the antidote. Viola complies, reluctantly, and steals the clock.

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