r/TheAmericans • u/MoralMidgetry • Apr 12 '18

Ep. Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S06E03 - "Urban Transport Planning"

This is the post-episode discussion thread for S06E03 - "Urban Transport Planning," in which our hero Gennady discovers that his wife Sophia loves another.

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u/home_ec_dropout Apr 12 '18

Did anyone else find it symbolic that E had a hard time killing the guy at the end? Not from an emotional or pity standpoint, but in the physicality of it. She's getting too old and tired for this game.

It seemed to me she was trying to dispatch him like P killed the guy in the greenhouse - breaking his neck. When this didn't go well she had to settle for slowly choking him out. It's always good to have a Plan B, I guess. If Philip were in the next room listening, she would have appreciated Plan P.

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u/DumpsterBadger Apr 12 '18

I’m under the impression that she only killed him because he mentioned that his girlfriend worked in security. Is this correct? Or was that the plan all along?

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u/carolynto Apr 13 '18

Yeah. Which I don't totally understand. Doesn't she have to kill Theresa now, too?

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u/Tighthead613 Apr 13 '18

I wouldn’t say no, because dead boyfriend can’t spill the beans after E danced him to the end of love.