The Americans (TV Series)

Mr. and Mrs. Teacup (2018)

Costa Ronin: Oleg Burov

Quotes 

• Philip Jennings : Your English is very good.

  Oleg Burov : I lived here. Worked for us at the embassy.

  Philip Jennings : Did you like it here?

  Oleg Burov : I don't know. It's different. What about you?

  Philip Jennings : I've been here a long time. Sometimes, it's even hard to remember back home.

  Oleg Burov : Yeah. One thing I learned here is that they are not crazy. We can make peace with them. Now maybe is the best chance we'll ever get. That's why I'm here.

• Philip Jennings : I don't really understand what's going on. What you said before...

  Oleg Burov : The people running the Centre, we believe, are actively trying to get rid of Gorbachev. And they can't stand the progress. It's a threat to them. And our country having any kind of openness or freedom. They think it means that we won't be communists anymore.

  Philip Jennings : Who's on the other side?

  Oleg Burov : Arkady Ivanovich. He is deputy chief of Directorate S. Everybody in the whole country who is looking forwards and not backwards. Everybody inside the organization who is supporting Gorbachev.

  Philip Jennings : Why did you leave?

  Oleg Burov : Wasn't for me. It... and there was... there's something rotten about it.

• Philip Jennings : You have to believe me when I say my wife would never do anything to hurt our country. If you knew her...

  Oleg Burov : We know how loyal she is. But that loyalty can be used. We have to know what she's been up to, to figure this out. The details.

  Philip Jennings : Mostly, what you'd expect. The summit. She's been trying hard to get, uh, some kind of radiation sensor. She went after an old source of ours, Lyle Rennhull, Air Force general. He ended up dead.

  Oleg Burov : They are following me now. I was clean tonight, but, uh, we can't meet in person again.