The Americans plot events

Put these moments from The Americans in the order they happen in the story, from 1981 to 1987. Flashbacks go where they fall in the timeline, not where they air. You place all 66 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play The Americans plot order game

Each card is a moment from The Americans, and the aim is to put them back in the order they happen in the story, from the Jenningses' first kidnapping in 1981 to their train ride out in 1987. The two scenes from Philip and Elizabeth's early days are marked Flashback. One card starts on the line. Place each new card before, after or between the ones already there. A right call reveals its position; a wrong one still moves the card to the right spot, minus one of your three lives.

Inside a season, the missions and killings blur together quickly, so it helps to anchor each card to the people around it. Ask who the Jenningses' handler is, whether Martha is still in Washington, what Paige knows, and whether Nina is in the embassy or a Soviet prison. The flashback cards come from training and the first days in America, well before the pilot. The last season also jumps ahead a few years, so expect a gap before its cards.

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Here are 28 of the 66 cards you might be dealt, with 38 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Timoshev assaults a young Elizabeth during her KGB training Flashback
  • Philip and Elizabeth abduct the Soviet defector Timoshev
  • Philip kills Timoshev after learning he hurt Elizabeth
  • Elizabeth kills the nervous KGB asset Udacha
  • Stan sleeps with Nina instead of going home to Sandra
  • Philip stabs Agent Amador in a fight outside Martha's
  • Elizabeth abducts a CIA official to avenge Zhukov, then spares him
  • Elizabeth is shot fleeing an FBI trap
  • Rival agents snatch the defector Anton Baklanov from the Jenningses
  • Larrick kills Kate, the Jenningses' handler
  • The Jenningses overpower and kill Larrick
  • Claudia says the Centre wants to recruit Paige
  • Philip begins working Kimmy, a CIA man's teenage daughter
  • Gaad finds the bug Martha planted in his office
  • Philip and Elizabeth tell Paige they are Soviet spies
  • Elizabeth takes Paige to Germany to see her dying grandmother
  • Philip confesses to Martha that he killed Gene
  • Elizabeth drags a fleeing Martha back to the safe house
  • KGB agents kill Gaad by accident in Thailand
  • William infects himself with the pathogen as the FBI closes in
  • Mischa lands at JFK airport looking for his father
  • Elizabeth tells Paige that she was raped
  • Elizabeth executes the Nazi collaborator Anna and her husband
  • Elizabeth learns of the Dead Hand doomsday system in Mexico
  • Paige sleeps with the intern Brian for information
  • Philip warns Kimmy not to visit a communist country
  • Elizabeth refuses an order to kill Nesterenko
  • Stan confronts the Jenningses in a parking garage

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