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We say goodbye to Martha without saying anything at all.

In a mesmerizing silent opening, this episode of The Americans walks us through the departure (for now) of a character who has become the beating heart of this show: Martha Hanson, the FBI secretary who became an unwitting pawn in the cat-and-mouse, counter-espionage game between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Now, her role is clear — both to herself and her supervisors at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is time to run.

A clock ticks. Faces are washed. She reads the peanut butter jar label with interest during a quiet, furtive breakfast. Then she and her “husband” Clark/Philip/Mischa drive to a woodland airstrip before dawn, and she is flown off to…somewhere. Nowhere. Continue reading The Americans recap: ‘The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears’