Covert War

"Covert War"
The Americans episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 11
Directed by	Nicole Kassell
Written by	Joshua Brand Melissa James Gibson
Featured music	"Slap and Tickle" by Squeeze "In the Dark" by Billy Squier "Rough Boys" by Pete Townshend
Production code	BDU110
Original air date	April 17, 2013 (2013-04-17)
Running time	41 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Richard Thomas as Frank Gaad Annet Mahendru as Nina Susan Misner as Sandra Beeman Alison Wright as Martha Hanson Lev Gorn as Arkady Ivanovich Olek Krupa as General Zhukov Paul Fitzgerald as Richard Patterson Betsy Aidem as Miss Kendall Richard Kline as Bill Hanson Peggy Scott as Elaine Hanson Margo Martindale as Claudia Daniel Flaherty as Matthew Beeman Joris Stuyck as Dmitri
Episode chronology
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"Covert War" is the eleventh episode of the first season of the period drama television series The Americans. It originally aired on FX in the United States on April 17, 2013.

Agent Frank Gaad (Richard Thomas) announces to his FBI agents that three high-ranking KGB officers are being targeted, including General Zhukov (Olek Krupa), who is murdered shortly thereafter.

Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) and Sandra Beeman (Susan Misner) go out dancing, and Sandra discusses a professor from Finland that she dated, who is also the only other man she slept with. Philip (Matthew Rhys) has the children visiting him in his motel room. Later, Sandra confronts Stan (Noah Emmerich) about his whereabouts and tells him that she called the FBI, and they told her he finished work hours ago, which he denies.

Claudia (Margo Martindale) informs Elizabeth of Zhukov's death. This hurts Elizabeth, who demands that the man responsible — CIA Director of Planning for the Soviet Union Richard Patterson (Paul Fitzgerald) — be killed. Claudia disagrees, telling Elizabeth that those are not her orders. In a flashback to 1964, Zhukov and Elizabeth discusses her relationship with Philip.

Elizabeth tells Philip about Zhukov's death and tells him that she is going to kill the man responsible, despite going against orders. Philip tries to talk her out of it, but she finds all the information she can on Patterson — that he is a womanizer and she can seduce him. Meanwhile, Stan sees his son, Matthew (Daniel Flaherty), on return from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, wearing makeup, which surprises Stan, but Matthew reassures him that it doesn't make him gay.

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