Russian Doll season 2 recap guide: Episodes 1 to 7

Russian Doll season 2, episode 4 recap: Station to Station

Russian Doll season 2, episode 4 finally shows us what Alan has been up to on his wormhole-train rides. Since his mother is still alive in the present, Alan is transported to 1962 East Berlin to inhabit his grandmother, Agnes (Carolyn Michelle Smith).

Agnes is close with a man named Lenny (Gergely Csiby), who we learn is deeply entrenched with a group of Berliners almost finished digging a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall to escape to West Berlin. Apparently, Agnes was the brains of the operation, but now Alan-as-Agnes has serious doubts about the tunnel being a good idea.

Talking it all over with Nadia in the present, Alan is down to just relax and enjoy his time in East Berlin, wondering if perhaps that’s all the universe wants him to do. Nadia believes there is a purpose, in her case it’s to find her family’s fortune. After finding out about the tunnel, Alan wonders if perhaps Nadia was right all along and he is supposed to save Lenny. By the time he has this epiphany, it’s too late, Lenny has already used the tunnel to escape.

Meanwhile, Nadia takes Maxine with her on her trip to Berlin to track down the descendant of the Nazi who signed her grandfather’s receipt regarding the gold train. The descendant, Kristof (Balázs Czukor) turns out to be mostly a dead end. He invites Maxine and Nadia to his place for a huge party and while Maxine is making out with Kristof, she digs through his things, finding a bunch of old Nazi memorabilia from his grandfather.

Nadia accuses him of being a Nazi, but Kristof says that stuff came from his father as a reminder of something he never wants to become. Either way, it means Nadia has hit another dead end for a lead on what might have happened to the gold train and the strong possibility that the soldiers at the time looted it.

Kristof gives her and Maxine some strong LSD leading to a trippy sequence involving a few flashes of season 1, Alan and Nadia dancing (and kissing), plus a bunch of other crazy stuff. They wake up in a graveyard the next day having come up empty-handed. Nadia notices a graveyard for a former priest named Lazlo Kiss, which becomes important in the next episode.

From there, she decides to return home to New York and reconnect with Ruth, who tells her she’s been thinking a lot about Nora lately. Ruth always felt guilty for making the call that got Nora committed to a hospital. Having now experienced it first hand, Nadia offers Ruth some words of comfort. Nora was sick and she needed to be there.

She also casually mentions that Nora and Vera would hide things all over the place, including buried under trees and beneath the floorboards. Realizing she might have missed something, Nadia boards the train to return to the 1980s one last time. But this trip doesn’t take Nadia to the 1980s. Instead she’s transported back to Budapest in the 1940s. We don’t see who she is just yet, but I’m guessing it’s Vera!