The Americans 4X9: The Day After
Added 2025-09-02 01:03:58 +0000 UTCPhilip (Matthew Rhys) takes Paige (Holly Taylor) to an empty parking lot to give her driving lessons. Afterwards, she says that the church is having their last meeting and that Pastor Tim (Kelly AuCoin) would like to see the Jennings attend.
Philip later meets with William (Dylan Baker), who reports that his lab is working on a modified version of the Lassa virus. William is disturbed by the discovery and is doubting over reporting this to the Centre.
That night, everyone watches the television film, The Day After, which explores the conflict of a nuclear exchange. Oleg (Costa Ronin) watches it with Tatiana (Vera Cherny), and recounts how a nuclear false alarm incident almost led to similar events.
Philip starts to believe in William's concern, but Elizabeth (Keri Russell) says the virus will be used against them.
Elizabeth continues seeing Young Hee (Ruthie Ann Miles), babysitting her children in order to find anything incriminating in their house.
Realizing she will need to seduce Don (Rob Yang) in order to find more, Elizabeth decides to move forward, even knowing that this could ruin her friendship with Young Hee. She invites him to her apartment, where she kisses him and drugs his drink to lose consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds himself in bed with a naked Elizabeth, making him believe they had sex. Horrified, he leaves.
Philip accompanies Paige to the church meeting, where Pastor Tim suggests they could talk in detail after he returns from missionary work in Ethiopia. Seeing that she has felt saddened, he takes her on another driving lesson, this time on his Camaro Z-28.
When Elizabeth returns, Philip comforts her, as Elizabeth feels her friendship with Young Hee is over.
