As such, it crackled with energy and was maybe the most fun episode to date. Your plan worked perfectly!Ĩ/10 – Like I said at the beginning, this episode was full of classic spy intrigue. And then Joe comes to, in an even filthier dump, where he’s locked into a cell. When Joe balks, Fred says that’s okay, but Joe has to wear a hood in the vehicle. Then he tells him that he’ll take him to Caleb, but Joe has to be sedated first. After convincing Joe enough that he knows Caleb, Fred strip-searches Joe. It’s some guy who claims to be there on Caleb’s behalf. But when a shadow appears under the door, it’s not Caleb. Instead of meeting Janice in the park where she waits–legend has it, she’s still waiting to this day–Joe parks himself in a sparsely furnished dump. Whether this is a test run or the real thing remains to be seen. The bigger picture here is still foggy, but I think the gist is this guy (Abu-Saeed?) is their very own Typhoid Mary and he’s going to infect other people. It’s a lot of surveillance and a lot of cloak and dagger for what essentially amounts to “They poisoned a guy.” Or infected him, really. And speaking of, over in ye olde Saudi Arabia, Nathan’s mysterious plan is kicked into gear. Look, man, if you’re trying to look casual in public, then don’t wear a baseball cap–the TV and movie symbol for “I don’t want to be noticed”–and duck down every time it looks like someone’s going to make eye contact with you.Īfter all, as we know, it doesn’t matter because we have so many eyes on us already. Then it’s Joe’s turn to go out into the world and he’s almost as bad at being inconspicuous as Kathy. Then she follows THAT with a bathroom tryst with a stranger, whom she stops kissing and starts kicking. Instead, she goes to an AA meeting, but it doesn’t do her any good, because she follows that up with tequila shots at her old bar. She manages to say something nice to Sarah’s parents at the impromptu vigil that’s sprung up outside IEP, but she can’t find the strength to stay. (She made up some fluff about wanting to challenge herself, climb new mountains, seize the day, etc.)ĭespite her chill exterior, though, Sharla is not doing well. Sharla is very cool in this scene, so like a cucumber that I believed her and I know she’s lying. Marty is also suspicious this week, calling Sharla into her office to interrogate her–softly–about why she’s on this task force when her background in the FBI doesn’t show any related work. What he doesn’t know, though, is why she’s working for the US or who exactly she serves. Their stakeout is ultimately fruitless, in that Joe doesn’t show, but we do find out that Bob knows a lot more about Gabrielle than he was letting on. Meanwhile, Gabrielle waits outside Janice’s home, where she’s joined by Bob. He sells her the phone.Īnd after all that, Janice first claims she doesn’t know how to get in touch with Caleb. Her purchase is complicated when the cashier insists on seeing ID (because of “terrorism”), but she shows him the cut she sustained when she and Joe tussled that one time and tells him she’s fleeing her husband. I mean, this is an outfit that says, “I’m hiding something”: a trench coat paired with a scarf and sunglasses like she’s on the Riviera. And she does, wearing the most conspicuous outfit in the county. So Kathy makes the executive decision that she’ll go buy a burner. But of course, it comes with a bunch of problems.īesides the obvious–the serious danger–he has to have a way to get in touch with Caleb. It’s not a great plan, but it’s the only one he has right now. But at least Joe and Kathy are trusting each other now.Īfter seeing Caleb’s video, Joe decides that he needs to get in touch with him. spy episode this week, as no one is really sure who they can trust. Kinetically qualified? WTF? Even the bad guys are just so cliched, incompetent, and psychopathic they lack any style or substance whatsoever. ![]() The dialogue is atrocious- everybody says Joe Turner isn't "kinetically qualified" to escape a very awkward assassination attempt, and the main character has even less personality than in the movie version. Here, everything is spoon fed in advance, and its so silly that you can't help but laugh at the absurdities as to why. The reason why the movie version was so compelling was because he had no idea why he was being hunted, and the audience went along his journey to find out why. ![]() In this iteration there is no mystery- the bad guys are revealed within the first episode and everything's been dumbed down. The reason why the movie version was so compelling was because he had no idea why he was being hunted, Terrible adaptation of the Robert Redford/Faye Dunaway movie. ![]() Terrible adaptation of the Robert Redford/Faye Dunaway movie.
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