Fan community for FX's The Americans

I loved that part too. I was also interested in how he corrected himself on the idea that they chose the job, saying they were chosen for them. Does that mean that they would have just joined the KGB in general and then been picked for the Illegals training without any real desire on their part? I mean, presumably if they really didn't want it at all they would have flunked out of the training, but if they wanted to please their superiors and were good at this...