The series is set during the Cold War and follows Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple living in Falls Church, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., with their American-born children Paige and Henry.
Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) arrive at the safe house, only to be told by Gabriel (Frank Langella) that Martha (Alison Wright) left and threatened him.
Stan (Noah Emmerich) and Aderholt (Brandon J. Dirden) inform Gaad (Richard Thomas) that Clark's death certificate is from 30 years ago, making him eventually deem Martha as a traitor.
While Stan and the agents check the area, Martha moves to Rock Creek Park to call Philip, crying that he never should have left her alone with Gabriel.
During this, Oleg (Costa Ronin) and Tatiana (Vera Cherny) work on the papers needed to exfiltrate Martha out of the country, later telling Arkady (Lev Gorn) that they found a pilot.
In March 2016, FX confirmed that the seventh episode of the season would be titled "Travel Agents", and that it would be written by Tanya Barfield, and directed by Dan Attias.
The site's consensus states: "'Travel Agents' continues The Americans' inexorable, tension-filled creep toward one character's seemingly inevitable exit while further deepening the show's long emotional arcs.
Club gave the episode an "A" grade and wrote, "'Travel Agents' is the first Americans script by playwright Tanya Barfield, and the intimacy of its second half evinces a writer with a theatrical background.
It's a stunning translation of the show's two faces, with the spy stuff lighting off fireworks in the opening acts, their brilliant flashes then illuminating the quieter scenes that follow.
"[8] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix wrote, "No matter what's coming next, Martha doesn't seem long for the show, unless the plan is for her to move into Nina's old room at the stealth bomber factory and pal around with Vasily and Baklanov.
"[10] Mike Hale of The New York Times wrote, "Wednesday's episode, 'Travel Agents,' was a splendid demonstration of the show's ability — more rare than you'd think in the peak-TV era — to do more than one thing well.
It was a great cat-and-mouse suspense story from start to finish, as both the Soviet and American sides ran around Washington playing a game of Where's Martha?
"[13] Matt Brennan of Slant Magazine wrote, "In the show's arc this season, 'Travel Agents' performs much the same function: A sharp exhalation, a moment of release, paves the way for a more restrained, if no less formidable, reckoning.