“It’s shocking how many nerve endings are in a pinky toe.”
asserted
endings → ’ → toe
Joe McNamara is at Langley, waking up awkwardly on a couch, in pain from her abduction and torture and experiencing PTSD flashbacks.
asserted
McNamara → wake → flashbacks
She chose this, though.
asserted
She → choose → this
For everything this Lioness, this soldier, this mother and wife has done.
asserted
Lioness → do → everything
Still trying to sort out who grabbed their case officer and why, the CIA has tasked Kyle with surveilling a suspicious Russian lobbyist tagged by the analysts.
asserted
CIA → try → analysts
And it’s a solid hunch, because the guy is soon joined for breakfast at Le Diplomate by Joe’s captor.
asserted
guy → ’ → captor
Only Joe knows the personalities, details, and circumstances of her ordeal.
asserted
Joe → know → ordeal
But monitoring all this via the restaurant’s security cameras, as she and the team are en route to Guantanamo Bay — more on that in a second — Joe’s features flash with tension as she clocks Renat.
asserted
she → monitor → Renat
“He’s the one who took me,” she tells Kyle through his earpiece.
asserted
she → ’ → earpiece
It goes bad, and it goes bad instantly.
asserted
it → go → ?
Kyle, Randy, and Tex identify themselves as federal agents, but Renat, seeing he’s cooked, pulls out a gun and kills his Russian contact.
asserted
he → identify → contact
Then he is shot, and falls dead into someone’s omelette.
asserted
he → shoot → omelette
And then a completely separate security team starts shooting, who were only on site to protect their African diplomat.
asserted
who → start → diplomat
Randy and Tex are both badly wounded, and Kyle is left standing in a fancy Washington brasserie with seven corpses and no more answers than he had seconds before.
asserted
he → wound → corpses
“Look how many died this time,” Joe says, because of her impulsive order.
asserted
Joe → look → order
It’s a facet of the same frustration she felt in Episode 1 of this season, after the joint op with Delta Force to capture Aleksi Yurimov incurred numerous casualties.
asserted
op → ’ → casualties
The team has traveled to Guantanamo to pick up Yurimov and return him to the Russians.
asserted
team → travel → Russians
These are orders from Meade and Westfield, who still think Joe’s abduction was a false flag operation run by Oleksandra and Ukraine.
asserted
abduction → think → Oleksandra
(Yurimov, a soldier like Joe, reminds her there is a cost to what they do.
asserted
they → remind → what
“Never underestimate how many hate you.”)
asserted
many → underestimate → you
But while they’re at Gitmo, Alex (Sandi Todorovic) calls out from his cage.
asserted
Alex → ’re → cage
This is the operative swept up during Episode 5 — “Have you ever had dengue fever?” — and he’s an unexpected font of hard intel.
asserted
he → sweep → intel
“I know you,” Alex says of Joe.
asserted
Alex → know → Joe
You were shopped.
asserted
You → shop → ?
They shopped you to me.
asserted
They → shop → me
Joe’s abduction was offered on the open (black) market to any ex-SVR, ex-Wagner Group, ex-government agency spy shit type who thought they could pull the brazen job off.
uncertain
they → offer → job
Alex’s story doesn’t identify who put out the contract, but it shifts the glare off Ukraine, not to mention Russia.
asserted
it → identify → Ukraine
Brought back to CIA HQ, the man explains to Kaitlyn Meade that the job was to grab Joe in Virginia, get her to Houston, and deliver her to representatives of Kata’ib Sayyid ul-Shuhada, or KSS, a paramilitary group loyal to Iran.
asserted
job → bring → Iran
Which is essentially everything we saw happen to her in the past-present format of Season 3.
asserted
we → see → Season
Meade recognizes Alex’s story as legit; it’s further strengthened when he names Renat as the shopper who took the job.
asserted
who → recognize → job
“You spy for your flag.
asserted
You → spy → flag
I spy for money.
asserted
I → spy → money
The CIA’s determination that Ukraine ran Joe’s abduction, their sniffing out of some international actor behind the plot, was bullshit, and it got Oleksandra Balakin killed.
asserted
Balakin → run → plot
The Delta dudes took the double-secret agent from witness protection and made her death look like a robbery-assault.
asserted
death → take → assault
It’s more red in Joe’s ledger, after her wish for instant vengeance sparked the collateral damage at the restaurant shootout, which included her team members getting shot.
asserted
which → ’ → members
And neither her nor the agency where she works are any closer to discovering who paid for her to be taken.
asserted
her → work → ?
Meade sends Joe home, and when they roll up at the house, Bobby sends Cruz and Josie to check around back.
asserted
Bobby → send → Cruz
“There’s nobody left to come after me,” Joe protests; Bobby says there’s always somebody.
asserted
Bobby → ’ → me
And that’s when they all notice the For Sale sign posted on the lawn.
asserted
they → ’ → lawn
The team respectfully recedes as Joe enters her home, which is now empty of her family’s love and energy.
asserted
which → recede → love
…and 26 more, not listed.
The Aporia
