Copper Pots and Daggers
Forrester hangs out with Zsólt, his neighbor’s son who watches his dog when he is away. Zsólt confides in Forrester that his parents have been fighting a lot. Forrester is suspicious of the dad so he asks Kellet to run a full background check on him.
Meanwhile, Smitty is finally moving in with Kellet. I guess she passed the personality test. Can’t wait to see how the new roomies will get along.
The team is invited to Turkey to help an ex-marine, Emily who was detained in Istanbul on charges of smuggling antiquities. Turkey and the US don’t see eye to eye and the military is choosing to lie low to protect Emily. They are sending in the team to enter Turkey through unofficial channels to save Emily.
Smitty has a contact in the U.S. Embassy in Turkey that she used to work with. The team makes it to Turkey and is welcomed by Jen Messer, the embassy’s translator, who will help them with their visa application.
After Kellet and Raines head over to the hotel, they talk to Emily’s partner James. He tells them about his experience at the airport with the police after Emily’s arrest. He says they asked him for a “rush fee” but he didn’t understand what they meant.
Later, Raines gets access to the airport security footage and sees Emily’s luggage was clean when she first went through the check. A security officer later takes the bag and it looks like he planted the antiquities during that time. Leyla tells them it is not unusual for Turkish police to “ shake down people.”
Leyla agrees to go to the station with Forrester and Vo and help them as a translator. Forrester talks with Turkey police captain Mehmet who denies any knowledge of a scam being done by his officers at the airport. He, however, allows them to talk to Emily and she urges them to get her out of there before the Turks find out who she is. Before she can expound any further, the Turkey police take her away dramatically in handcuffs. Who is she?
According to the police, they found evidence hidden in the walls of her apartment that proves she is a spy. However, Mehmet refuses to let them go through the evidence, claiming it is too dangerous. Forrester has seen the transmitter device found in Emily’s apartment before and is sure she is a CIA spy.
They go to the office and Kellet notifies Forrester that a General from the Department of Defense is on the phone and wants to speak to him. The General wants them to get Emily out before matters escalate further. He asks them to find Emily’s high-level asset only known by a code name.
Forrester meets James and tells her that Emily is not who she thinks she is but they also need his help to get her out safely. James tells him about a man named Sami who Emily met and claimed is her friend from University. They do a deep background on Emily and find Sami.
As Forrester and Smitty leave to interview Sami, they run into Mehmet who wants to show them the footage of Emily meeting with a man at a hotel. The man is Sami and he is Emily’s asset. Unfortunately, the Turkish police get to Sami first and arrest him.
This story forces Forrester and the team to take drastic measures to get Emily out of her prison cell. They decide the only option is a prison break. They ask Leyla to get them a blueprint and they make a plan to breach the prison that night.
Forrester and Vo distract Mehmet while Raines breaks into the server room and shuts down the power. Vo manages to get Mehmet to allow Vo to interview Emily while Forrester remains behind. Once Raines shuts down the power, Vo and Emily escape the cell and they are able to make it out of the station following Raines’s directions. ..
Smitty and Emily are trying to escape from the country with Emily in tow. They run into a problem when they are stopped by a traffic officer, forcing Smitty and Emily to ditch the car after a wild police chase.
Forrester is able to pick up James along the way and he safely arrives at the pick-up destination. Forrester alerts Emily that he had no choice but to brief James about her real identity. They fly to Budapest where James and his daughter are waiting for Emily.
The Episode Review
The last minutes of the show were intense and I was not sure if they would be able to break Emily out of prison. Smitty handled that car chase like a true pro and it is always fun seeing the team go rogue once in a while.
I am curious to find out what Kellet will discover when she runs the background check on Forrester’s neighbor. What do you think she will find hidden in his closet? ..
