THE AMERICANS: "Mutual Assured Destruction" S1E8 (review)

By Morayo Sayles

The KGB has another internal disaster and it’s up to our friendly neighborhood spies to clean it up again. The KGB has hired an assassin (Chris Sullivan) from East Germany to “take out” the 14 American scientists who are part of the nuclear ballistic program, however in mid-mission, changed their minds but can’t get a hold of the assassin to stop him.

Cue the dynamic Jennings duo.

Phillip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) are tasked with the awesomely craptastic job of finding an assassin they have no information on – no name, identification, or location and convince him to stop his mission by any means necessary.

To get the ball rolling, Phillip and Elizabeth blow up the car of a scientist on the list, this to spur the American government into providing all the scientists with some protection, while they began their search for the assassin. 


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