- Paige copes with new burdens that come with her family's secret - as Philip and Elizabeth struggle to contain their cover without destroying their daughter.
- Paige tries talking to Pastor Tim about him breaking her confidence with Alice but it does not go as hoped. Gabriel suggests taking Paige and Henry to the brand-new Epcot Center. Back in the USSR, Nina may experience what KGB, GRU and/or the 2d Directorate considers "exceptional punishment." Gabriel meets with Claudia; later, he is found near death with Glanders by Philip and Elizabeth. They force the double agent scientist to help save their handler. Stan is suspicious of Martha. Things may be about to hit the fan in all directions but the four spies are out of commission, in quarantine for 36 hours. It may not be such a small world, after all.—LA-Lawyer
- Elizabeth, in a blonde wig, attends a Mary Kay makeup party, where a Korean woman, Young Hee, talks about all that working for Mary Kay has done for her and her friends.
Elizabeth and Philip meet with Pastor Tim in his office. They warn about the destruction of their family that will occur if their secret is revealed: Paige and Henry ending up in foster care with their parents in prison. Tim says his responsibility to keep things confidential ends if it is preventing people from getting hurt. They say there is confusion over what they do and laugh about Paige calling them "spies" -- Elizabeth says when they first started their jobs, they were called peace workers, and that they work for peace and equality for people on both sides. "Except for the religious?" Tim counters, and points out the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. Elizabeth says neither country is perfect. Pastor Tim says he thinks they should all think about things for a few days. They ask if he has told anyone and he says no. They ask about his wife, Alice, and if she knows. They don't look pleased with his answer that he and his wife minister to each other.
"Pastor Tim told Alice," Philip tells Gabriel. Gabriel thinks both Pastor Tim and his wife should be eliminated, but Philip insists that won't work, as Paige would know it was them. Philip thinks they should leave. Gabriel said Paige needs to convince Pastor Tim to be quiet, and that The Center will have ideas about what to do next. Philip argues that it was because of The Center's plans to recruit Paige that they even told her the truth in the first place.
Gaad storms out of his office at the FBI and berates his staff, telling them the counters on the Xerox machines indicate six extra copies not accounted for in the logs. He tells them their sloppiness is harming the division and goes back into his office, slamming the door. Stan studies Martha's worried look as she stares off into space.
Elizabeth, back in her blonde wig, encounters Young Hee at a grocery store. She tells Young Hee she is too nervous to start selling door-to-door on her own. Young Hee offers to go out with her and Elizabeth accepts and writes down her phone number.
Philip tells Paige that Pastor Tim told his wife, Alice. Paige gets angry and asks how he could have done that, especially since Alice is a big gossip. She wonders how she could be so stupid. Philip tells her that she needs to think about going to Pastor Tim and, while not revealing she knows he told Alice, get him on their side. He says Pastor Tim and Alice are going to be in their lives for a long time.
Martha takes the bus home. Stan, waiting out front in his car, watches her go in the building.
Elizabeth has a successful day selling Mary Kay, thanks to Young Hee. Young Hee invites her to dinner the next night, and Elizabeth accepts.
Gabriel tells Claudia about the pastor and his wife, and Claudia says The Center will have a plan. He says The Center trying to bring in Paige is what caused this, and that it is time to "bring them home."
Nina, back in prison, speaks with her lawyer, who tells her she has already been found guilty via her confession and there is no need for a trial, and that they can appeal a death sentence if it's handed out. He asks if there are any mitigating circumstances that might help her appeal. He tells her Baklanov already wrote a positive statement about her to the prosecutor, who does not believe he had any knowledge of what she did. Nina asks to see the statement. She smiles while reading it.
Gabriel tells Philip and Elizabeth to take their kids to the newly opened EPCOT Center in Florida this coming weekend, and that while they are away, Pastor Tim and his wife will have an accident. Philip reacts incredulously, telling him Paige is not stupid and that she will not believe the coincidence of suddenly going out of town and coming back to read their obituary in the paper. Gabriel says Paige may wonder, but she will never be sure. Philip says that if they do this, Paige can never be brought in and find out what they really do there. Gabriel says that's not the most pressing issue.
Paige complains to Pastor Tim about her betrayal, and he says his wife knows never to reveal anything he tells her. Despite what she had promised her father, she angrily says his wife "likes to talk" too much, and he reacts defensively. He starts to say they won't say anything but that they need to wait until they find out exactly what her parents do and if people get hurt. She leaves and says she can't do this anymore.
After Elizabeth conveniently leaves EPCOT Center brochures on the counter, Henry begins pestering her to take them there for vacation for spring break. She says it would be much too crazy to go then, but looks at the brochure and notes they have off-season discounts through the end of March, that month. Philip suggests they go this weekend. Henry excitedly tells Paige when she comes in that he talked their parents into taking them.
Paige asks to speak to her parents alone, and tells them about her conversation with Tim. She says she was upset and he got irritated, like she had no business telling him that his wife couldn't keep a secret. She wants to know if anyone gets hurt in their business and they assure her that they don't. She says she still doesn't know exactly what they do and wants to know where he goes two nights a week.
Elizabeth, dressed as the blonde Sally, has dinner with Young Hee's extended family and meets her husband, Don. Philip, meanwhile, gets a visit from Sandra, who was dropping Matthew off at Stan's. He tells her that Stan almost took a swing at him the other day after finding out about them together at the restaurant. She gets angry but he convinces her to cut him some slack, and that he would do the same in his position. He alludes to his time separated from Elizabeth and the kids and how hard it was.
Agent Aderholt, standing next to the mail robot, chats to Stan and mocks an uptight memo from the Director. Stan asks if Aderholt is still suspicious since Gene's death. Aderholt says the KGB loves to turn tech guys like Gene, but Stan says he is suspicious of Martha, who has not come home two nights in the past week, even though Stan waited outside until 3 a.m. Aderholt says she could just be with her parents or a sister, and Stan says her parents live in Colorado and she doesn't have a sister. Aderholt suggests she has a boyfriend, but Stan insists something with Gene doesn't "sit right." Aderholt refuses to help Stan track Martha, though he suggests he will take her to dinner instead.
In prison, Nina dreams of a beautiful room filled with white flowers and Stan. She looks at him with tears of joy before he tells her he is sorry. They turn to see Anton. She wakes up to steps passing by her door.
Elizabeth and Philip enter Gabriel's apartment to find him lying on the kitchen floor coughing blood. They go to him, and he tells them weakly, "Get out! Get out!" They think he has been exposed to the bacteria and caught glanders, and their only hope, especially having been exposed themselves, is to find William.
But when they meet William late at night and tell them what they witnessed, he turns and runs. They catch up and Philip tackles him -- then spits in his face. "You should have wrapped Gabriel in plastic and burned his body," he says in irritation. He takes them to his apartment, saying he might have something there. He injects himself and both of them with a broad-spectrum antibiotic, though he doesn't know if it will work, as this strain is resistant to most antibiotics. They all go to Gabriel's apartment, where he puts a frozen Thermos into the oven to kill the bacteria. He thinks Gabriel must have been infected moving the vial into the Thermos, and that he has always thought the caps they use on the vials don't look quite right. He injects Gabriel with antibiotics.
He says they will be in the apartment for another 36 hours, taking antibiotics every four hours, until they are sure they are not infected. There will be no trip to EPCOT Center.
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