History Awesome / TheAmericans

* Elizabeth climbing out of the trunk of a vehicle ''on a lift in a garage with mechanics [[UpToEleven and an FBI agent present]]'', and climbing into the trunk of another vehicle also on a lift. When she is driven off with it she just walks out of a federal building by acting like she belongs there.

* Elizabeth climbing out of the trunk of a vehicle ''on a lift in a garage with mechanics [[UpToEleven and an FBI agent present]]'', and climbing into the trunk of another vehicle also on a lift. When she is [[spoiler: driven off with it]] she just walks out of a [[spoiler: federal building]] by acting like she belongs there.
* Philip and Elizabeth are kidnapped and tortured by what appear to be American government agents who know they're Russian spies. When neither of them crack it's revealed that they are being held by [[spoiler: men working for the Jennings' handler Claudia and they were ordered by the KGB to find the mole in DC. They were trying to determine Philip and Elizabeth's loyalty]]. When they're released, Elizabeth goes '''berserk''' and proceeds to give a CurbStompBattle on [[spoiler:Claudia, an OldSoldier who survived the Battle of Stalingrad]] who's left whimpering and bloody on the ground. Philip manages to keep Elizabeth from killing her and she gives her this message:

* Larrick [[spoiler: ambushes Kate in her own apartment. He then discovers her cypher pad and decrypts a message sent to her.]] Kate herself also has a CMOA in this episode:[[spoiler: despite being rather inept at tradecraft in earlier episodes, she detects Larrick in her apartment, leaves a hidden message for the Jennings, and resists Larrick's interrogation before he kills her.]]
* Stan Beeman finally decides [[spoiler:not to betray his country for Nina.]]
* Larrick [[spoiler: tracks the Jennings to a KGB safe house hidden deep in the woods. He ambushes and kidnaps Philip, and nearly does the same to Elizabeth. The ''only'' reason he fails is because he didn't know that Jared had a gun. Think about it: the Jennings have been killing and pulling off successful missions for two seasons, and Larrick came a hair's breadth away from singlehandedly bringing them down. That's how much of a badass he was. And even after he's been shot, he's still able to shoot Jared as well, and it takes both Philip and Elizabeth to take him out.]]
* Philip [[spoiler: taking what is probably the most insanely dangerous risk possible: meeting with the Rezident, Arkady in public. He does this to show just how serious he is about Moscow threatening his children.]]

* Philip [[spoiler: taking what is probably the most insanely dangerous risk possible: meeting with the Rezident, Arkady in public. He does this to show just how serious he is about Moscow threatening his children.]]

** Phillip killing said rapist with ''one hand''!

* The fight between Phillip and the uncle/brother of a family that he and Elizabeth are using as inside men. The awesomness is piling up quickly in this show.
* After one of Elizabeth's {{honey trap}} targets whips her with a belt during rough sex, Phillip's first instinct is to hunt the man down and murder him.

* Phillip and Elizabeth are kidnapped and tortured by what appear to be American government agents who know they're Russian spies. When neither of them crack it's revealed that they are being held by [[spoiler: men working for the Jennings' handler Claudia and they were ordered by the KGB to find the mole in DC. They were trying to determine Phillip and Elizabeth's loyalty]]. When they're released, Elizabeth goes '''berserk''' and proceeds to give a CurbStompBattle on [[spoiler:Claudia, an OldSoldier who survived the Battle of Stalingrad]] who's left whimpering and bloody on the ground. Phillip manages to keep Elizabeth from killing her and she gives her this message:

* Phillip talking down Fred, the man who thought he'd been blown.

* Sandra finally has Stan admit he's having an affair. All while she's having an affair of her own and saying it to his face.

* Beeman finally decides [[spoiler:not to betray his country for Nina.]]

* Philip [[spoiler: taking probably the most insanely dangerous move he can make: meeting with the Rezident, Arkady in public. He does this to show just how serious he is about Moscow threatening his children.]]

* Larrick ambushes Kate in her own apartment. He then discovers her cypher pad and decrypts a message sent to her. Kate herself also has a CMOA in this episode: despite being rather inept at tradecraft in earlier episodes, she detects Larrick in her apartment, leaves a hidden message for the Jennings, and resists Larrick's interrogation before he kills her.

* Beeman finally decides not to betray his country.
* Larrick tracks the Jennings to a KGB safe house hidden deep in the woods. He ambushes and kidnaps Philip, and nearly does the same to Elizabeth. The ''only'' reason he fails is because he didn't know that Jared had a gun. Think about it: the Jennings have been killing and pulling off successful missions for two seasons, and Larrick came a hair's breadth away from singlehandedly bringing them down. That's how much of a badass he was.
** Furthermore: Even after he's been shot, he's still able to shoot Jared as well, and it takes both Philip and Elizabeth to take him out.

* Larrick tracks the Jennings to a KGB safe house hidden deep in the woods. He ambushes and kidnaps Philip, and nearly does the same to Elizabeth. The ''only'' reason he fails is because he didn't know that Jared had a gun. Think about it: the Jennings have been killing and pulling off successful missions for two seasons, and Larrick came a hair's breadth away from singlehandedly bringing them down. That's how much of a badass he was.

* Beeman finally decides not to betray his country.

* Larrick ambushes Kate in her own apartment. He then discovers her cypher pad and decrypts a message sent to her. Kate herself also has a CMOA in this episode: despite being rather inept at tradecraft in earlier episodes, she detects Larrick in her apartment, leaves a hidden message for the Jennings, and resists Larrick's interrogation before he kills her.

* Larick takes down Kate.

* Agent Gaad successfully blackmails the Soviet Union into accepting that the death of Vlad was just a random killing, thereby saving his own career. Then he flatly tells Arkady that if the KGB kills FBI agents, the FBI will retaliate by killing KGB agents. Then later he finds a hidden compartment inside the briefcase taken from Emmett and Leanne.

** The KGB agent who Larrick kills in that episode gets his own [=CMOA=] when he hits the self-destruct switch for the telephone switchboard before Larrick kills him (although it was ultimately a useless gesture, as Larrick was able to repair the switchboard).

** The KGB agent who Larrick kills in that episode gets his own [=CMOA=] when he hits the self-destruct switch for the telephone switchboard before Larrick kills him (although it was ultimately a useless gesture, and Larrick was able to repair the switchboard).

* In "Yousif", Larrick shows off how cunning and dangerous he is by tracking down a KGB safehouse, killing the agent stationed inside, and hacks into the telephone switchboard so that he can start tracking down people associated with Philip and Elizabeth.

* Larick takes down Lucia despite getting shot by a tranquilizer dart first. Later, when Lucia makes another attempt, [[TooDumbToLive despite being told by Elizabeth to stand down,]] he strangles her to death while forcing Elizabeth to watch, knowing that he is way too valuable for the Soviets to be killed. After all the shit the KGB pulls on the United States in season 2, it's extremely satisfying to finally watch an American force the KGB to follow his terms.

* Sandra finally has Stan admit he's having an affair. All while she's having an affair of her own and saying it to his face.

** YMMV. If you are a non American, its made less awesome by the fact that Larrick is i) a traitor and ii) responsible for some pretty nasty things in C America,

** 160 dead crewman are......awesome?. I think the above poster might be suffering from Americanitis here.