Special Ops: Lioness

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The question is, would she still be alive if we hadnt tried to save her?

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Joe and Bobby are standing in the aftermath of their child rescue side mission gone awry.

The dust hasnt even settled on the scene yet, and theyve already figured out the whole cover story.

Fire and forward momentum.

Some of them dont know it yet, but Pablo Carrillo is about to fuck around and find out.

Cruz wakes up in Josies room to find her wide awake and fretting.

Theres a psychology course in building sources.

The point being, You gotta remind yourself you aint nine.

And he is half the man you made him out to be, if that.

Its a smart play, given the time crunch.

Hes a man and unexceptional as such.

I love it when they give our girl a heavy Shane Black-style line like that.

(Speaking of Byron, whats up with his based daughters demanding real milk from a cow or whatever?

Is that some Gen-Z trad TikTok thing Im not hip to?)

Whoa, they evoked Waco, dude.

All a far cry from the mission they were supposed to be on in the first place.

Nowhere to go but forward.

So how do they minimize collateral damage now?

Because killing Gutierrez isnt gonna insatiate our appetite to do you harm for what youve done to us.

Gutierrez responds with an alibi that, while suspicious in its convenience, seems to be on the level.

And it certainly tracks with this fear of cartel operatives embedded everywhere within U.S. borders.

And we still dont know whats going to happen to Joe!