Fan community for FX's The Americans

Of course, Elizabeth could have just cut to the chase and arranged for Breland to be kidnapped, and not involved Kimmy in the plot at all. This mad scheme of luring Kimmy into Bulgaria and then framing her with drugs and threatening to have her tossed in a commie jail for 20 years ... that was so over the top and convoluted. There was no way that would have worked. Simple is always best. Maybe she kidded herself into thinking that if they could successfully blackmail Breland once because of a threat to Kimmy, then he'd be compromised and be in their pocket forever.