The Americans (TV Series)

Jennings, Elizabeth (2018)

Costa Ronin: Oleg Burov

Quotes 

• Stan Beeman : We are looking for the Illegals here in D.C. You tell us how to get to them, you go home.

  Oleg Burov : I can't.

  [Stan shows him a picture of Philip and Elizabeth, and he shakes his head 'no'] 

  Stan Beeman : Let me tell you something, Oleg. Your old buddies in the KGB want to get rid of Gorbachev, I could give a shit.

  Oleg Burov : [sighing]  I can spend the rest of my life here. I don't know. But think about it. I have friends, a family; my father, my mother, my brother who died in the war, and all of us want a better future, just like you. Peace. Food to eat. All the same things. Do you think it doesn't matter who our leader is? I'm telling you this is why I'm here. This is why I risked all of that - my wife, and my baby - even though you told me not to. Can you get that into your thick head?

• Oleg Burov : People in the KGB are trying to get rid of Gorbachev. This is what I've been doing here. We have reason to believe that they are trying to make a move right now, around the summit. The message, the dead drop, I don't know what it says, but it probably is about that. If it is...

  Stan Beeman : If?

  Oleg Burov : They need to get it. You need to help me get it there. I can tell you how.

  Stan Beeman : You want me to send a coded message to the Soviet Union? Why don't you decode it?

  Oleg Burov : I can't. It can reveal who sent it.

  Stan Beeman : That's not your problem right now, Oleg.