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What a great season this has been. Phillip telling Gabriel at the end that "you're my problem right now" was pretty great. Langella has been great in the role -- portraying the handler that tries to act like he has only the best intentions for those underneath him, but you know that he's a party guy through and through when push comes to shove.
Between the guy being lit on fire last week, and Elizabeth having to slowly kill the kind old woman (or watch the woman slowly kill herself), it seems like the show is trying to portray the toll this is taking on these two. It's pretty clear to me that Phillip would defect in a heartbeat if Elizabeth were on board. But the only way he makes a clean break of things without having to go into hiding is if he deals with the FBI directly. And if he goes to the FBI by himself, they'll prosecute (or deport/trade to the USSR) his childrens' mother, which is something that Phillip, right now, is not willing to do. But if it comes down to a choice of defecting to the FBI without Elizabeth or allowing Paige to become a Soviet operative, I think Phillip is going to choose his daughter over Elizabeth.
Between the guy being lit on fire last week, and Elizabeth having to slowly kill the kind old woman (or watch the woman slowly kill herself), it seems like the show is trying to portray the toll this is taking on these two. It's pretty clear to me that Phillip would defect in a heartbeat if Elizabeth were on board. But the only way he makes a clean break of things without having to go into hiding is if he deals with the FBI directly. And if he goes to the FBI by himself, they'll prosecute (or deport/trade to the USSR) his childrens' mother, which is something that Phillip, right now, is not willing to do. But if it comes down to a choice of defecting to the FBI without Elizabeth or allowing Paige to become a Soviet operative, I think Phillip is going to choose his daughter over Elizabeth.
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