Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) tells his boss, Agent Frank Gaad (Richard Thomas), that they should keep Prince in custody until he talks.
She tells Philip that if the meeting is a set-up, he needs to leave with their children for Canada, knowing that she will be identified by Stan immediately.
Philip volunteers to take the mission with the Colonel, but Elizabeth declines and tells him he instead needs to go and collect the tape that recorded Weinberger's meeting with Baker.
Meanwhile, Arkady (Lev Gorn) tells Nina (Annet Mahendru) that Moscow has decided to let her live, despite reservations that she can betray the Americans.
Down in the basement, Elizabeth listens to an old tape of her mother speaking fondly about pictures she had seen of her grandchildren Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati).
Claudia, posing as a friend of a tenant, knocks on the door of Richard Patterson (Paul Fitzgerald), the CIA official responsible for the killing of General Zhukov.
After convincing him to allow her to use his phone, she uses a taser to disarm him, injects him with something that paralyzes his entire body, and slowly cuts his jugular vein.
In a montage played to Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers", Martha (Alison Wright) happily puts on her wedding ring after coming home from work; Sanford is still in FBI custody, now talking to Gaad about the Colonel; Nina hands Arkady a file on Stan; Paige and Henry are at the Beemans' while their parents are gone.
"[5] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix wrote, "Not a bad way to go into the hiatus, by any means, but the show set a very high bar over the last three months, and ideally the finale goes well above that.
"[7] James Donaghy of The Guardian wrote, "It was intensely emotional at times and there were dicey moments but despite everyone's best efforts none of the major players died in this breathless finale.
"[8] Carla Day of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 4.8 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "The Americans season 1 played like a well-paced 13-episode film.