Trust Me (The Americans)

"Trust Me"

The Americans episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 6

Directed by

Daniel Sackheim

Written by

Sneha Koorse

Featured music

"Waltzes: No. 12 in F Minor, Op. 70 No. 2" by Dinu Lipatti

Production code

BDU105

Original air date

March 6, 2013

Running time

49 minutes

Guest appearance(s)

Derek Luke as Gregory Thomas
Richard Thomas as Frank Gaad
Annet Mahendru as Nina
Susan Misner as Sandra Beeman
Alison Wright as Martha Hanson
Peter Von Berg as Vasili Nikolaevich
Lev Gorn as Arkady Ivanovich
Margo Martindale as Claudia
Vitaly Benko as Vlad
Robert Bogue as Cal
Mike Oberholtzer as Nick

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List of The Americans episodes

"Trust Me" is the sixth episode of the first season of the period drama television series The Americans. It originally aired on FX in the United States on March 6, 2013.

Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) are concerned about the FBI's mole. Philip (as Clark) plans to meet with Martha Hanson (Alison Wright), Agent Gaad's secretary, but while making plans at a phone booth, is abducted and thrown into a van. Back at the Jennings' home, Elizabeth, hearing a noise upstairs, investigates. She is attacked by an intruder and fights back, but is taken away by a second man.

In an abandoned warehouse, Philip is tied to a chair and being interrogated by Cal (Robert Bogue) who removes Philip's wig and glasses and calls him a "commie." He shows Philip his various passports under different aliases and plays conversations he had with Martha. Cal threatens to send Philip's children to Russia. Elizabeth is thrown into a small room with pictures of her family all over the wall.

Later, Philip's head is held under water in front of Elizabeth. Philip refuses to give them any names, even when they threaten to do the same to Elizabeth. Elizabeth asserts that she and Philip will die before they talk. Claudia (Margo Martindale) enters, revealing the abduction to be a ruse by the KGB. After the codes were changed, Philip and Elizabeth were the first suspects. Philip is furious that the KGB is questioning their loyalty, and Claudia tells Elizabeth the decision went over Zhukov's head. Elizabeth submerges Claudia's head under water and then badly beats her face, saying "Tell whoever approved this that your face is a present from me to them." After leaving the warehouse, Philip wonders why they stopped interrogating Elizabeth. He accuses her of telling them that he considered defecting, but she denies this, saying that she told them he liked living in the U.S. too much.

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