Special Ops: Lioness
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Boy, these Special Ops are getting spicy, eh folks?
Sort of anticlimactic, but things heat up real quick.
Cruz is opening up about marriage, which is not on her mind right now.
She wants to finish school, have her own life, etc.
Youre so American, Aaliyah says before they head further out to the sandbar.
But what she wants isnt factored into the equation.
I dont want to get old.
I absolutely dread it.
Whatexactlyis she trying to get across, and to whom?
Whats the core threat she cant get away from?
From the boat, the Lioness team identifies Ehsan and Kamal.
A Saudi Royal marrying a Kuwaiti national.
Makes no fucking sense, Joe points out.
And if the wedding party ends up in the Emirates, theyre gonna be mad hard to cover.
But thats for later-episode Joe to worry about.
Like I said,neverdo a favor for a skeezy fucking Kyle.
Kaitlyn throws up some surveillance footage from the extraction, his face front and center on the screen.
Congratulations Kyle, you might be the first CIA case officer to make the FBIs most wanted list.
Something tells me thats wrong.
He also manages to give up the Lioness team for participating.
The contact he extracted is bringing over five known Al Qaeda operatives next week.
If the prison transfer had happened, the contact wouldve been killed by his own cartel.
Then I lose the five, Kyle says.
I didnt have a fucking choice.
Kaitlyn perks up for a sec.
Does Kyle have an ID on all five Al Qaeda members?
Sure enough, hes fixing to have them all lined up at a wired-and-ready safehouse come Sunday.
The operations still ago.
We could pinch this off and be done with it, Westfield says after Kyles dismissed.
Now were digging a bigger hole.
The bigger this becomes, the more justified it appears, Kaitlyn retorts.
Next on Kaitlyns agenda is to give Joe a thorough shellacking for taking part in Kyles little edge-lord side-op.
Yawn, Aaliyah says.
This is where they will end up when they get hungry.
Looks like somebody knows how to play the field better than her wheelin dealin Saudi Royal fiance, eh?
The way it must be when you look like Zoe Saldana, I suppose.
At the bar, Joe gets a call from Neil.
Were sacrificing our children is what were doing, says Joe.
Were trading them for our professions.
Also … wait, what the fuck, is this guy about to roofie her?!
Holy shit, he is.
Jesus Christ, man, I guess this is the proper use for that Guantanamo cowboy shit?
She cant manage a weekend in New York; hows she gonna navigate Riyadh or Damascus?
But even in her state of doubt, Joe knows theyre too far in it to back out now.
Weve never had anyone this close to a tier-one target before.
What choice do we have?
The weddings in Dubai, Cruz chimes in once the adrenaline shot kicks in.
Thats where [Aaliyah] wants it.
She gets what she wants.
They can get Cruz over there, but can she last that long?
I can make it, Cruz says, trembling.
Unwavering tenacity is the lifeblood of her operating system, but will it be enough to keep her alive?
Im still in total awe of how insane the scene is where Neil lets Kate know shes pregnant.
Thats why you dont have sex at 14.
Thats why your mother and I forbid you from driving in a car with a teenage driver.
It breaks my heart that this is the way you should probably learn these lessons.
Bro, uh, your daughters still in traction.
You sound like a Bluth trying to teach someone else a lesson in a particularly morbid episode ofArrested Development.
When Kaitlyn says to Westfield, You want to talk to the governor or the senators?
he says, You take the senators.
Kaitlyn being good at talking to senators should be an episode ofDirty Jobsor something.
