Special Ops: Lioness
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Tell the truth; just change the names and locations.
Answer questions with questions.
Then do a lot of listening.
Now the location of her next debrief or whatevers been changed to … the White House, heyyyooooo!!
And Errols got some dirt on whos going to be there.
So they do a little back-and-forth information bartering.
Kaitlyn plays the Im your fucking wife, tell me card too early in the match.
Errol reminds her of the rules she lives by, If you give something, you get something.
She tells Errol theyre about to catch a big fish.
He runs a sort of … what we call a bank for terrorists.
And getting him puts $80 million worth of black market oil back on the market.
But apparently, thats not necessarily a good thing for Errol, even if he knows it beforehand.
Its a matter of perspective, I suppose.
Intimacy is the weapon to wield here, and wield it she does.
That last one she had to cloak in a lie when Aaliyah asks about her bruises.
It was a man, Cruz says.
The hidden truth is that Joe ordered the bruises Aaliyahs asking about.
They start with shoves and slaps.
Then punches, then the beatings.
If you get a beating, you let him because you didnt leave with the slap.
What the fuck am I doing?
Cruz asks herself in the space of a solitary breath.
As a result, shes made herself a little too vulnerable.
If theyre going to be BFFs, that means no more lies, says Aaliyah.
Around 10:00 at night, Joe and Kaitlyn are still waiting at the White House.
You ever been iced this long?
Joe asks, circling the room with the energy of a busybody who kills.
Nine-eleven, Kaitlyn says.
Running point at his right hand is prestige ice queenJennifer Ehleas Chief of Staff Mason.
The big guns are out to use and abuse these CIA freaks.
First, they put Kyle on blast; whats his excuse for the events of the last week?
Oh, which events, he lets on at first.
Mason sets the tone for the rest of the meeting right quick.
We are NOT FUCKING AROUND TODAY.
Extraction at the border.
Kill mission in San Antonio.
Kyles got his excuses all laid out like a good boy.
Hes unaware of any border extraction.
Not authorized for that shit on U.S. soil, you say?
Well, the request for surveillance was made to the ATF through NSA.
I love when conversations like this in spy stories get wild with a snowball of abbreviations and acronyms.
It throws people off who think Im with the CIC.
Anyway, it goes on.
Why not the FBI?ATF chases bombs, sir.
Mullins cracks a guffaw.
Nice bullshittin, kid.
Everyone gets to have some fun with well-placed f-words in this scene, dude.
Its abitmuch, but Freeman and Ehle are cooking with em.
And heres where Kaitlyn claps back some good old-fashioned CIA truth-loopholing.
Secretary Mullins, Im confused.
Did CBS news report that a CIA QRF operated within the borders of the United States?
Ive not heard that.
No, they didnt, Mullins admits.
Theyre too busy filming a victory lap that the local police are taking for saving the city.
But isnt that the most important thing, that the city was saved?
But as always, the narrative is the thing.
If it plays, it stays.
End of the day, theres no evidence of their team executing a kill mission on US soil.
Heres where Westfield chimes in with the big mic-drop.
So what would you like to do here?
Should we turn this over to senate intelligence and have a hearing?
Its gonna be hard to prosecute because its such a win.
There were warnings about 9/11.
What did we do about it?
What threats could we have neutralized before it all went down?
That is what we avoided here, this sicko argues.
For the moment, it seems like thats the end of it.
Kyles dismissed, and they move on to Lioness updates.
Aaliyahs dad has been clearly established as a non-ideological banker to the worlds ideologically bound terrorists.
Thats where theyll order a strike.
Joe makes it clear if they cant contact her before the strike, shes a sacrifice.
But San Antonio is just the excuse, as Kaitlyn points out to Joe in the car afterward.
The higher-ups dont seem to have the resolve on their target.
The millennial heart of darkness, am I right?
You said it was a good cry.
This is fucking heartbreaking.
Instead, Cruz takes the emotional opening here in the direction of You dont have to get married.
You dont have to do this.
But for Aaliyah, saying yes to love and no to obligation means certain death.
and lands a juicy kiss on Cruzs lips.
After an eternal, sexually charged pause, Cruz hungrily reciprocates.
Still, passions are rising everywhere you look in our special ops.
And thats usually where fate takes the reins with force.
Kidman fills their scenes with the same flirtatious venom that underlies her best work.
Martin Donovans been playing these money-men-in-the-shadows types for the last decade.
Scary effective, unnervingly smooth every time.
Theres a pulpy familiarity to their chem.
We are not the only people studying this.
What the … LOL Russia catching some obligatory strays over here.
Seriously, this team cantnotrun into some civilian shenanigans or another.
Just doing my part.
Real Tom WambsgansIm here to serveenergy with a littleAmerican Psychobravado on top.
Alright, either Im a dumbass or its been a wild ping-pongy ride with Joe and Neal?
For now, these two kidsaregoing to be okay.
