[EDIT because I just read this and realized I left out the word 'not' and ended up typing the opposite of what I meant.]
I thought that Claudia's reaction to Elizabeth was quite in character. She was NOT in a panic. Unless Elizabeth marched in to kill her (which Elizabeth wouldn't do under those circumstances as much as I wanted her to), Claudia is safe for the time being. She hasn't personally been exposed to the Feds. There's still time for her to reach out to her superiors to get extracted out of the US, or to make her own alternate plans for escape if she learns that her superiors have been caught in the crossfire of any higher-level power plays within the KGB. She's survived this long because she's shrewd and careful.
At that moment, Claudia was right and Elizabeth was the one who was now the most at risk. Elizabeth burned her entire KGB support system at home, and she was in the US illegally. Claudia cautioned her that if she didn't want to participate in the coop by killing Nesterenko, she should just keep quiet about it. The KGB couldn't force Elizabeth to kill Nesterenko, but they could ask her to follow orders and stay quiet about it.
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Re: Claudia's reaction to Elizabeth
Date: 2018-05-25 01:00 pm (UTC)I thought that Claudia's reaction to Elizabeth was quite in character. She was NOT in a panic. Unless Elizabeth marched in to kill her (which Elizabeth wouldn't do under those circumstances as much as I wanted her to), Claudia is safe for the time being. She hasn't personally been exposed to the Feds. There's still time for her to reach out to her superiors to get extracted out of the US, or to make her own alternate plans for escape if she learns that her superiors have been caught in the crossfire of any higher-level power plays within the KGB. She's survived this long because she's shrewd and careful.
At that moment, Claudia was right and Elizabeth was the one who was now the most at risk. Elizabeth burned her entire KGB support system at home, and she was in the US illegally. Claudia cautioned her that if she didn't want to participate in the coop by killing Nesterenko, she should just keep quiet about it. The KGB couldn't force Elizabeth to kill Nesterenko, but they could ask her to follow orders and stay quiet about it.