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quadruple agents. You've got people pretending to be other people and occasionally pretending to be yet additional people within that second identity. It's a hall of mirrors in which everyone and everything reflects everyone and everything else. We have real people pretending to be fake people and carrying out treacherous agendas, but feeling real things as they perform, and feeling guilt and love while they perform." Carla Day of
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was lonely and was in a relationship, and may have inadvertently led her lover to Emmett and Leanne. Claudia claims she told them to pursue the killer so they could remain safe from her. She also tells Elizabeth she is lucky to have Philip in her life before they finally part. The episode ends with Elizabeth driving away.
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gave the episode an "A" grade and wrote, "Unlike last week, Elizabeth and Philip spend most of this episode together, working toward the same goals, and because of that, I found 'Behind The Red Door' to be an improvement on last week's already stellar episode. It also has a heavy focus on the series'
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In its original American broadcast, "Behind the Red Door" was seen by an estimated 1.21 million household viewers with a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographics. This means that 0.4 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 12% decrease in viewership from the previous episode,
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Stan tells Nina that Oleg knows about them. Stan tells her that she will have to take a polygraph test to be exfiltrated, and she tells him she is done and storms out. Larrick confronts Philip at a mission, and Elizabeth asks Claudia whom to search next, and she replies "me". She told Elizabeth she
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is the future. When asked by Arkady if Stan will meet Oleg's demands, he replies "50-50". Elizabeth seduces Philip in his Clark costume and he sensually kisses her. Disappointed, she demands to see the animal Clark is instead of Philip's sensitive nature, and he relents by viciously having sex with
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Lucia is with Carl and he says he wants her to meet his family. He prepares some heroin and she poisons it when he leaves the room to get her some water. Immediately after injecting the drug, he chokes on his vomit and dies. Elizabeth comes back home and Paige tells her she quit volleyball because
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meets Oleg in a safe house and is given three days to meet Oleg's demands. Later that day, Elizabeth and Philip meet Larrick, and he claims he wanted to kill Emmett and Leanne, but he didn't get to them first. Elizabeth and Philip believe him. Later that night, Elizabeth seduces Philip, wanting to
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gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Things have gotten so complicated that you practically need a wall-size flow chart to keep track of everybody's motivations and multiple identities. You've got agents becoming double agents becoming triple agents and being pressured to become
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Elizabeth keeps pressing Philip about Clark, but is interrupted when they discover Paige quit the volleyball team, and they need to meet Kate. Philip tells her he plans to kill Larrick after a mission and asks that his family remain unexposed. Kate accepts their request, and tells Elizabeth that
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got even more realistic and harsh with how the oft-idealized sex life of a spy would actually make things really, really screwed up - especially if you were actually in an ongoing relationship. It wasn't comfortable to watch what happened with Elizabeth and Philip, but it sure was compelling."
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has been building up to this point over the last season and a half. The Jennings are in a decent place in their marriage and are dealing with normal teenage rebellion with Paige. They are the best KGB operatives in the US and the stress of the job has begun to grate on them."
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Lucia needs to help her get into the Capitol. Lucia seduces the congressman's assistant, Carl, and lures him into the office to have sex while Elizabeth steals the files. After the success, Elizabeth tells Lucia to kill the assistant so nothing will be traced back to her.
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Stan goes to Gaad's home, and tells him Nina has been compromised. Gaad refuses to hear anything so he won't have to lie if he is forced to testify before a congressional committee. Oleg meets Arkady and tells him the
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wrote, "Things that once seemed like fiction have become real, and vice versa, and everyone is getting deeper into unfortunately circumstances that will be very hard to escape. Such a roll this show's on right now."
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she had more fun at church. Paige asks her parents to stop by sometime. Elizabeth later goes to Philip and asks "Are you mad at me?" Philip tells her he isn't, and asks her about Lucia.
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her. He shouts at her "Is that what you want?", to her shock. Philip goes to the bathroom disgusted with himself and rips off his wig while Elizabeth is on the bed sobbing.
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meet "Clark," but Philip is confused and somewhat offended, and backs off. At the same time, Stan is home eating dinner while his wife and son talk about the death of
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gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "It's not easy being a spy. It's certainly not the glamorous life often portrayed in movies.
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In March 2014, FX confirmed that the sixth episode of the season would be titled "Behind the Red Door", and that it would be written by
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gave the episode an "amazing" 9 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, "This week's episode of
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which was watched by 1.36 million household viewers with a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographics.
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Valentine, Genevieve; St. James, Emily (April 2, 2014).
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Index

The Americans
Charlotte Sieling
Melissa James Gibson
Richard Thomas
Lev Gorn
Costa Ronin
Aimee Carrero
Lee Tergesen
Wrenn Schmidt
Daniel Flaherty
Margo Martindale
The Deal
Arpanet
The Americans season 2
List of episodes
second season
The Americans
FX
Margo Martindale
Elizabeth
Philip
Lee Tergesen
Stan
John Belushi
ARPANET
Melissa James Gibson
Charlotte Sieling
IGN
Alan Sepinwall
HitFix

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