Station to Station
Nadia is still trying to piece together what happened in 1962 and why her mother abandoned her. She’s also been trying to find Agnes, who she believes may have been the Russian Doll that Nadia saw in her dreams. Nadia finally tracks down Agnes at a mental hospital in East Berlin and visits her there. Agnes tells Nadia that she was the doll that was abandoned and that she was taken away by the Gestapo. Nadia is relieved and decides to keep the doll as a souvenir.
Nadia leaves Alan in the park and goes to visit Ruthie, telling her she wants to go to Budapest. Ruthie encourages her to take Maxine if she intends to go across Europe. ..
As the group of friends prepare to explore the past, they come across a new development. Agnes has been hiding something from them and it turns out that she is in fact part of a large group who are planning to dig a tunnel under the Berlin wall. When Agnes expresses her concerns, the others call her out for hypocrisy given that she’s the one who actually encouraged them to start this project.
Agnes, it turns out, is an activist in the past. This catches Alan off-guard when he finds out. Alan encourages Lenny to wait, but he laughs incredulously, pointing out that he won’t wait 27 years to see his family when the wall actually falls. His loved ones are in West Berlin and this tunnel is his ticket to get to the other side. ..
Alan questions whether Agnes is actually an informant, given his doubts. He obviously waves off these concerns, but this big revelation sees Alan look at things differently. He wonders whether Nadia is right and that he needs to save Lenny from making a massive mistake. However, it seems like he’s too late as when Alan hops back in time later on in the episode, he finds Lenny gone and the entrance to the underground tunnel.
Nadia and Halasz head out to a club in the middle of nowhere, where Maxine immediately finds herself smitten with this tall, mysterious stranger. Nadia begins to question whether or not she should tell Halasz about her ancestor’s death, but decides against it after getting a sense from him that he is still holding something back. The two eventually end up making love at the club, and Nadia finally knows that her ancestor was not killed in action as she thought.
Nadia slips out of the party and checks through Kristof’s gear. She finds a whole bunch of swastikas and other memorabilia. When Kristof shows up, kissing Maxine, he explains he found all this gear after clearing out his grandfather’s place and it doesn’t belong to him. Nadia encourages Kristof to smoke some LSD, sending her on a trip through her subconscious.
Laszlo Kiss was a chemist who died in a cemetery. He was important to them because he talked about chemistry and it made them interested in it.
They decide to head home again, realizing that they’re not going to find anything in Budapest.
Nadia wakes up on the train from her time travel and is confused. She looks around and sees that she is in 1944 Budapest. Nadia phones Ruthie to tell her what happened, but she falls asleep before she can say anything. Nadia wakes up again and realizes that she is in a different place than when she fell asleep. Nadia tries to find Ruthie, but she doesn’t know where to look. Nadia finds a Nazi uniform and starts to feel scared. She sees a steam engine carriage and decides to get in it. When Nadia gets inside, she realizes that it’s not 1944 anymore- it’s 1982! Nadia is relieved and happy that she made it back safely, but wonders what happened to Ruthie ..
The Episode Review
This episode slows down a little for a somewhat pointless trip over to Hungary and a lot of information regarding Alan that feels disparate to what’s currently happening in Nadia’s timeline. Whether these stories will converge together at some point, picking out the gold as a thread to hold everything together, is unclear at this point.
There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered about this story, and it’s unclear how everything will pan out. It’s also frustrating that the time travel rules are a little unclear, which makes it difficult to follow the story.
With only three episodes left, it’s difficult to know what to expect from Russian Doll. However, it seems like the show may be delivering on some of its promises.
