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Joe doesn't trust the new lioness. Despite all her time and experience behind the intelligence curtain, she still insists on running her operation in good faith. For the love of the country, flaws and all. But as the queen of pragmatic CIA ghoulism, Kaitlyn Meade, reminds her, Joe “shouldn’t trust any of them.” Trustin other words, is not a luxury available to everyone who serves the agency. Spycraft is “lying tricks,” and Joe suspects that Josephina Carrillo’s story is not her quite Story. The trick is figuring out what to do with the truth once you find it out.

This week, Captain Carillo arrives at Fort Bliss, the Lioness crew's makeshift, harsh home, and is given a condensed but no less nightmarish introductory course in militant espionage, while Joe gets another quick introduction Full house Stylish domestic game, and Kaitlyn greases some wheels of power in Washington. The button on Josephina's cover is pressed and news of her firing is spread across cable news. Back in the saucy exhibition room, our large Greek chorus of Mullins, Mason and Hollar express concern about the usefulness of their new agent's cover story and point out the historic tenacity of CIA operations to transport drugs across the border. However, a quick nudge from Kaitlyn triggers her real concern: public outrage over the congresswoman's kidnapping isn't lasting, and the press is resisting a push for more attention. Reactions have been divided along party lines, and the series has reminded us at least twice in every episode so far that an election is coming. The president is at 40 percent in the polls, and they need more support from their side to implement their current plan (as if we need reminding of our real-world elections. We'll see how this plot point impacts the election. Enjoy with the show coming next week.

So Byron and Kaitlyn shared their duties and convinced the two senators who refused to vote. Kaitlyn enlists the help of her husband Errol (Martin Donovan), an Illuminati financial investor, to “judge the economic consequences of yet another high-profile target on U.S. soil” over dinner with Senator Fuller while revealing that it is The kidnapping was an investigation initiated by Chinese intelligence. Having adequately introduced the scare through hushed tones, the senator seems keen to let Kaitlyn and her team handle the matter quietly – to somehow prevent another 9/11 while avoiding a devastating market collapse. I don't know; That's the argument Kaitlyn and Errol have between bites of what is sure to be an insanely expensive, mediocre and well-done steak. And I guess that's enough to get the Senate on board and raise a slush fund for the mission.

After just three episodes, Joe's personal life is already becoming a little redundant: he pulls into the driveway with a melancholy mix of tiredness and relief, senses a phantom threat, pulls out a gun, and almost shoots a family member. This time, however, she catches Dr. Neal enjoying a quiet afternoon swim while the girls are away. I think we can officially hand the devoted and devastatingly hot TV Housemate championship belt – husband, wife or otherwise – to Dave Annable, who is so damn handsome that it's worth sitting through this otherwise hilarious, sitcom-esque family intrigue (which The whole “You should be glad your parents love each other” scene after Kate comes into direct view of her parents' body parts mid-smash brought me to tears, even when they task him with eating breakfast with his Daughters arguing about their friend being non-binary, accompanied by a groaning plea for the “free exchange of ideas” taken from the episode of the Joe Rogan podcast he heard this morning Just When I Thought. my sexual orientation would change from “Zoe Saldana verbally destroying someone” to “Dave Annable making balls” Anyway, on the way out the door, Joe backs him up with a little CIA mom twist: “What your dad means.” , is that ideas are meant to be challenged.” He has the right to disagree with you, and you have the right to disagree with him. There are countries where that right doesn't exist, and those are the places you don't want to go.” Joe goes to those places so they don't have to, etc. etc. The internal conflict between their patriotism and their detached realism comes through through the things she tells her family as justification for her absence.

Like Joe, the lioness The series continues to revolve around the mythical boomer-centrist's vague distrust of our institutions, which is undermined by a resounding belief in the broken American white-hat myth. It continues to showcase the kind of eerie, lizard-brained images of combat and violence that erupt from Hollywood's deep well of dissonant, narrow-minded spy dramas. Josephina's reception at Fort Bliss is typically cold, made all the more aggressive by the lack of privacy in the open bunk, mixed showers, and open latrine. “I can tolerate this in Pakistan; I can't do this shit in Texas!” shouts Bobby, storming out of the shower after Two Cups arrives to relieve himself – the whole crazy scene is reminiscent of the mixed showers of our future fascist space military in Paul Verhoeven's Spaceship soldiers. Josephina suggests breaking the ice and getting to know each other over dinner, but the Lioness crew isn't interested in getting to know their lioness this time – not outside of their cover. “We don’t have time to learn both,” Tucker says. This party starts at dawn.

Here, Josephina shows her natural aptitude for the job by having a standing target on the shooting range and demonstrating her quick mastery of ground-contact directives on the noise torture obstacle course or whatever. However, things become even more uncertain when Joe puts them through a silly-looking VR exercise. Josephina screams, “Let them go!” at a fake attacker holding a fake hostage with all the fervor of a Boomer screaming in fear at a VR roller coaster. That makes it pretty funny when Joe says, “What are you, a cop?” 'Let them go'?” The point is, it's a kill team and a kill team only. Killing is surviving . And now, in order to survive, Josephina must destroy her family.

Joe sums up Kaitlyn's queue from the beginning of the episode here: She can't trust Josephina, but she can use that mistrust to identify pressure points – recruiting not through camaraderie but through fear. Josephina told them a lot of lies: that she didn't know her father's and her uncle's business and didn't speak Spanish – enough to get her labeled a mole with a call to the military police. If she lied to protect her family, how can they believe that she will destroy them out of love for the country? Josephina claims she broke up with them a long time ago because she didn't want to know anything about the cartel and have nothing to do with it. She appears to be telling the truth in this regard, but the truth doesn't matter when she's already been assigned the central role of this operation. Under duress, she plays her role and makes an introduction call to her father. It's all in a day's work when you're in the business that Kaitlyn Meade calls “our nation's sovereignty.”