The FBI agents arrive at the crime scene to find a security camera. They see two men killing the truck driver and fleeing in a car. The car is traced to another crime that happened a week earlier. The feds think the cases are connected to a terrorist group that Maggie is currently trying to infiltrate. The leader of the group is called Eric and he is planning to build a pipe bomb.
Elsewhere, Maggie is undercover at a gun shooting range owned by Nick, Eric’s brother-in-law. She has made some leeway getting close to Deke who is Eric’s brother. OA is staying nearby but out of sight to protect Maggie’s cover. Isobel asks OA to pull Maggie from her cover and update her on their suspicion that Eric may have enough material to make a bomb. They think that the bomb can be ready within 48 hours and they have already lost 12 hours. ..
Maggie suggests using Deke to get close to Eric as he works from home. She manages to get an invite from Deke to a birthday party being held at Eric’s house. She sneaks to the basement and bugs Eric’s office, while there she spots a hoodie similar to what the shooters were wearing in the footage. She sneaks it out and brings it to the forensic team to collect evidence from it.
Their investigations into Eric’s finances show that he might be planning to flee to Canada after detonating the bomb the next day. They realize they are running out of time and they decide to put a tracker on his car and follow him to the bomb. OA doesn’t agree with Maggie and thinks they should arrest Eric immediately and get him to talk. Jubal and Isobel decide that Maggie’s play is better but unfortunately, Maggie is not able to place the tracker in time.
Maggie is able to track down the bomb and arrests Eric before it can detonate. This leaves her with a few hours to figure out where the bomb is before her cover is blown. Meanwhile, in the cell, Eric is refusing to cooperate and they don’t have enough evidence to charge him with stealing fertilizers or planning a terror attack. They investigate the GPS in his car and they think they have located the place they are using to make a bomb.
The team investigates the abandoned land and sets off an alarm. They follow the man on a motorcycle and catch up to him, but he escapes. They investigate the house in the abandoned land and find that it was recently used to make a bomb. They try to find out who is responsible for making the bomb, but they are unsuccessful. They later learn that Nick had been visiting the land several times in the past week. ..
Maggie and Nick come back to the shop after a night of drinking. They are both eager to prove their innocence and Maggie suggests they use the opportunity to clone Nick’s phone and collect evidence. OA is not happy with this plan and thinks Maggie is taking unnecessary risks. At the bar, Schola helps Magie while undercover to steal Nick’s phone but Nick discovers something might be going on. They arrest him as their cover is blown and the intel on Nick’s phone shows that the bomb is en route to the target being driven by Deke.
They rush to intercept Deke before he detonates the bomb. OA and Maggie get into another argument as Maggie decides she wants to talk Deke out of detonating the bomb. OA wants Deke to be taken out by the snipers and Isobel agrees with Maggie. Maggie is able to get through to Deke and save a bunch of lives.
Maggie and OA meet after the case to discuss the aftermath. Maggie tells him that it was her own fault that she got hurt on the job, and OA agrees to let her be just like before. They head out for drinks.
The Episode Review
We considered the fact that Maggie suffered a huge trauma when she nearly died after the sarin gas incident, but we never thought of the impact the incident had on OA. ..
OA’s experience living through the aftermath of his partner’s injury must have been incredibly difficult. He may have felt like he let his partner down and the thought of losing Maggie must have been scary for him. Hopefully, they can go back to being a great time and get past the trauma together. It is strange how the same trauma can affect different people in different ways. The writers and actors did a great job portraying this. Do you think the same?
