I, I did all this … stuff, Stan, I don’t even know why anymore. It, it seemed like the right thing to do for my country. My country wanted me to. And I, and I … I kept doing it. Telling myself it was important. Until finally, I couldn’t, and I, I stopped. I’m done with that now. I have been for a long time. It was all just screwing people for … I don’t, I don’t even know for what. So I quit, like she said. Like you did. I’m a travel agent now. I’m just, I’m just a shitty, failing travel agent. Except I guess I’m not. Because now, I, I need to leave, if I can. I have to run away from the place that I have lived for the past … so many years. If I can. If, if we can. Stan, I have to abandon my son. He can’t come with us, because I got caught. I finally got caught. And here we are. And I don’t even know what happens if we make it home, because after all these years of being scared of Americans and recruiting Americans and following Americans, we finally, we actually got something, and it has nothing to do with you. It’s our own people. It’s a bunch of fucking Russians. They’re trying to get rid of Gorbachev, and we figured it out. Her, really.
S1 E15Unfinished Business
It’s our own bosses. They were going to fake my reports, make it seem like Gorbachev was trading away military secrets at the summit. The people I trusted all this time, and now …
Do you know Oleg Burov?
Who, who is that?
Don’t bullshit me now, Philip. We arrested him earlier today, picking up a dead drop. He told me the message was about people in the KGB trying to get rid of Gorbachev. Told me I had to send it back to Russia.
I could care less who runs your country.
Stan, these people, if, if they’re not stopped, that’s our whole country. That’s, that’s our whole future. And it’s the world, and whether we get to live in peace or not depends on this. We have to tell them what happened here, because if that dead drop didn’t go through, we’re the only ones who can stop this. Now, I don’t know why you should trust me. You should hate me. You … you should probably shoot me. But we’re getting in that car. And we’re driving away. I wish you’d stayed with me at EST. You might know what to do here.
I don’t know how to say this, but I think there’s a chance Renee might be one of us. I’m not sure.
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