The Americans (TV Series)

The Deal (2014)

Michael Aronov: Anton Baklanov

Quotes 

• Anton Baklanov : You gonna kill me? I have a right to know.

  Philip Jennings : I'm not gonna kill you.

  Anton Baklanov : You want me to work for you?

  Philip Jennings : Not for me.

  Anton Baklanov : No, of course. You... you're just obeying orders. Like Eichmann. You gonna send me back to Russia, is that it? Listen: I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll be of no use there; I'll, uh... how can I work in a place I've spent my life trying to escape? My wife, my son? Do you think I am going to work five thousand miles away from my family?

  Philip Jennings : You're adaptable. You've proven that much.

  Anton Baklanov : Let me work for you from here. I have my lab, my resources. I'll give you things your government hasn't even dreamed of. ECM - do you know what that means? Electronic countermeasures: radar, infrared, lasers, they can all be deceived - I can give this to you. I'll put you on the ARPANET; this you don't have in the Soviet Union. Please? Don't send me back there. Don't send me back, please! I don't want to go back, please! Please don't send me back!

  [breaks down] 

  Anton Baklanov : Please!

• Anton Baklanov : You have a family? My son's bar mitzvah is in three months. Give me that. Three months. Let his father stand with him for his coming of age. Please! He'll think I died, and never know.

  [Crying] 

  Anton Baklanov : At least look at me! Please! You're a monster! You're not a man! Whatever you once were, whoever you were, they trained it out of you. No feeling, no humanity - you may as well be dead.