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Yup. I think the whole "does she want them to go to prison?" question is the hugely complicating one. Because Paige would almost certainly feel some sense of "wrongness" about them killing people, conning people, and all the other things they do even in the service of a good cause. Whether or not they turned her into a spy for the KGB, Paige would still love her parents, would not want her family destroyed and would have a lot of guilt and anxiety about what would happen to her and Henry now and in the future should her parents be sent to prison. It's definitely not so simplistic as deciding between right and wrong. Henry might wind up blaming her for the choice to turn them in (which he would have some right to, having no say in it and having it affect his life) and she could be left with no parents and a brother who wants nothing to do with her. I don't think Paige would be dumb enough to make any move lightly. Also as SisterMagpie points out above, Pastor Tim being let in on the secret puts his life in danger and they have no fond reason to spare him. She would be doing him no kindness.