Gabriel tells Elizabeth the Centre has turned down her request to handle Young-Hee's husband Don in a different way. She goes to Don, telling him she's pregnant by him, and storms out when Don offers to pay for an abortion. Later, Philip and Gabriel, disguised as Elizabeth's brother and father (along with a woman disguised as her mother), visit Don at work, claiming Elizabeth (or "Betty") has committed suicide, and demanding money for the funeral expenses. While Don gets the money (accompanied by Philip), Gabriel and the other agent copy Don's computer discs and search for the access codes for the pathogens the Centre has been pushing William to get.
After returning from Ethiopia, Pastor Tim apologizes to Elizabeth for Alice confronting her and Philip before. Elizabeth shrugs it off, but seems to want to talk about how disturbed she is at what she's had to do to Young-Hee (without actually talking about it), though she only talks about it in general enough terms Pastor Tim believes she's just going through a general crisis of faith. Also, when Elizabeth invites Pastor Tim and Alice to dinner, any chance of them talking about that goes out the window when Stan comes over unannounced, Henry invites him to the dinner, and Pastor Tim and Alice try to hide their surprise when they learn Stan works for the FBI.
Speaking of Stan, he's still despondent over Gaad's death, but he makes a point of meeting with Oleg to tell him he doesn't plan to blackmail Oleg to get him to turn, because he doesn't want Oleg on his conscience if anything happens to him.
Finally, as Elizabeth and Paige are leaving the church after helping out with the food pantry, two muggers approach them. Elizabeth at first tries to calm the muggers by giving up her wallet, but when the younger mugger turns his attention toward Paige, Elizabeth goes on the offensive. The older mugger comes at Elizabeth with a knife, but Elizabeth deflects the attack and lethally injures him while the younger one flees. As the older mugger bleeds to death, Paige looks in horror, until Elizabeth gets her daughter to leave the scene with her quickly.
This episode contains examples of:
- Call-Back: When talking to Oleg, Stan brings up the deaths of Chris and Vlad, as well as Oleg's brother and Nina.
- Henry tells Stan about Pastor Tim getting arrested at an anti-nuclear protest.
- Aderholt tells Stan when the Mail Robot was being repaired, there was a death at the facility, and that discovery becomes important later.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The title of the episode is "Dinner for Seven", and there are seven people at the Jennings house the night Pastor Tim and Alice come over - those two, Elizabeth, Philip, Paige, Henry, and at the last minute, Stan.
- Foreshadowing: Stan's decision not to blackmail Oleg will becomes important throughout the rest of this season, as well as the following season.
- Heroic BSoD: Paige suffers this after seeing her mother kill a mugger in front of her.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Elizabeth kills one of the would-be muggers with his own knife.
- Honor Before Reason: With the deaths of Amador and Nina (as well as Vladimir's though he doesn't outright say it) weighing on his conscience, Stan refuses to blackmail Oleg into becoming a double agent for the FBI.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Stan is telling Philip about Gaad's death, he says the KGB were responsible, and calls them "animals" - Philip, of course, says nothing.
- Internal Reveal: Paige tells Elizabeth what Matthew told her about Martha.
- Mugging the Monster: What the muggers are trying to do to Elizabeth, to their detriment. It doesn't help them Elizabeth is protecting her daughter.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Though Elizabeth never actually says this out loud, you can tell this is the sentiment she's expressing over what she's done to Young-Hee. Also, Philip brings up the fact he and Elizabeth briefed the Centre about Gaad's vacation to Thailand, which makes them both feel this way, even though they don't express the sentiment out loud.
- Shout-Out: Stan brings Henry over a tape of Silver Streak.
