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This episode is tightly packed!

Amy and the blonde lady, Eliza are kidnapped.

By who knows who anymore?

I mean, sure they should be the bad guys. They want passwords and threaten to do violent things if they don’t get them.

They also have a pilot in on the matter. He’s working from the base with the passwords and her badge to get what they want.

Which is a video.

Proof? Proof that you’re not the bad guys?

Who is? What’s happening?

It feels like by the end of the episode everything should be wrapped up in a neat little bow. Perfect and solved and over.

But it’s not… Like at all.

First of all, there’s two episodes left.

And even though it appears we’ve got the bad people right under our noses. Everything should be fine.

The amount of brutal force used to rescue them was absolutely unnecessary.

There is no logic or tale you could spin to make that work. None whatsoever.

And you can see how on the flipside of everything how it would seem solved. Everything is fine. They had no choice. They were only doing what they had to, to protect themselves. When you watch it from Kristen’s perspective.

At first, I was annoyed with her.

I was angry that she thought this was okay.

Then I remembered something, she’s being fed the information from somewhere else.

Amy is experiencing things real time.

She heard the pleas of the family. She saw the evidence they collected. She saw that they were not trained. One of them was a kid. They were being held at a home. Not a compound by military trained individuals who are grown adults with thoughts and minds of their own.

No this was a family.

Amy saw a shaky kid, handling a gun for the first time.

Amy saw the mother, concerned for her child.

She heard only what Eliza translated. But knows enough to understand the tone of words being spoken to know she’s missing something and not being told the whole truth.

She knows she got to the kid.

She heard their pleas.

She watched as the team entered the home and started shooting. They didn’t wait to see if they were being fired on.

Not in the slightest.

There was risk to their lives? Not a chance.

And who was the guy at the end carrying a bag into the home? About the size of the bag the teen carried off the base with the console in it?

I’m starting to think, that these people are being framed. By the UK government no less.

Why? I don’t know.

And frankly, I don’t care.

Any kind of corruption like that is evil in the purest form. They framed and killed innocent people to further their own agenda. It doesn’t who or why. That’s the bottom line.

People died for some agenda.

And isn’t that the basis for every damn war or attack on people around the world? To further someone in power’s agenda.

How sickening.

Which is oddly why I like this episode.

It’s real and terrifying how easy it is to lose sight of the truth.

Kristen did.

She was being fed a lie and she ate it up. She didn’t see anything else. Amy was in danger and so was a soldier. Whatever force used – to her – seemed to be necessary.

Except it wasn’t.

It was horrifying.

That moment, watching the kid get shot the moment they entered, is stuck in my brain. Etched there forever.

Even if it’s just a TV show.

That moment mattered.

It was horrible.

It was shocking.

And it was rightly framed as such.

This was no victorious episode where the good guys won. Because I don’t think they did.

I think the bad guys won.

And I hate how real it is. But I love it too. Such good storytelling.

The very plot of this episode is sickening and the only real focus for me. I loved that Amy was clever enough to get herself out. That someone helped them. But I don’t trust Eliza at all.

Something is up with her.

And I am never going to forget the line, “I trust the woman running, rather than the man chasing her.”

Excellent advice and words to live by.

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