On Quantico Season 2 Episode 3 “Stescalade”, Alex manages to infiltrate the terrorist cell, Ryan
almost blew Alex’s cover and it seems like Shelby is on to Miranda.
At the Farm
Ryan and Alex are meeting with their handlers (Nima
and Shelby) and trying to decide which one of the recruits will most likely be
recruited by the nefarious CIA (AIC as called by Ryan and Alex). The couple have
gotten nowhere in realizing who’s a threat and who isn’t. They however narrow
the most-likely-to-be-recruited to León and Dayana. Nimah and Shelby need the
super couple to pick one person as they have just one bug so they urge them to
get the recruits to open up.
The following day, Owen is trying to teach the
recruits a new skill – assessment. They are to pay attention to their
surroundings no matter the situation and so far the only one not failing badly
at the test is new recruit is Dayana and Leigh - who Alex says reminds her of Shelby because
she’s a rich kid who has her own business and has planned four Kardashian
weddings – the last tidbit was revealed too Alex by Dayana who now seems to be
in control and has a little dirt on everyone. She was also able to reveal
information about León
who apparently went to prison.
After the test, the recruits are asked to team up
and get ready for an assignment. While waiting outside for transportation, they
all get blindfolded, put in a van and dropped in the middle of the forest. In the
forest, Alex tries to get more info on León in a rather obvious way and after he threatens her,
he finally revealed that he was in prison and had ended up there on purpose
because he was trying to prove that the Mexican cartel used the prison as their
base of operations. Alex is obviously very moved by this and all her doubts
about the man seem to dissipate.
Ryan leaves his partner Harry (who’s asking far too
many questions about Alex) and goes to join Dayana whose partner (Sebastian)
left her. Ryan wants to know how Dayana was able to get León to talk and unknowingly reveals to
Dayana that he and Alex are pretty chummy. The super couple clearly knows not
how to be spies. Ryan is unable to get much out of Dayana other than she has
friends in high places that give her dirt on recruits, doesn’t like the
outdoors and is scared of heights. Some of those revelations were obviously
lies as thirty seconds later; she’s seen crossing a fallen tree used to bridge
a pretty deep ditch.
Harry teams up with Leigh and they get to the farm
first – 4 hours after they were dropped. Hall is not pleased; he believes if
they had kept to their training, they should have been back in 20 minutes. He’s
also disappointed that no one noticed that they were being watched. Except Leigh
who thought she saw about six cameras in the tree – only they were over 20.
Thus concludes another failed test at the Farm. One would
think that Ryan would not suck as badly as the rest seeing as he’s trained at
Quantico not once but twice.
The handlers (Nimah and Shelby) meet with Miranda
who tells them to manipulate their operatives and not be their friends. The handlers
take Miranda’s teachings to heart when they meet with the couple. Nimah
convinces Ryan to go against the couple’s joint decision to bug Harry rather
than Dayana and León
and Shelby tells Alex that she’s a sucker for a pretty boy with a sad story. That
last part is quite true.
They decide to bug Leon’s room but when Nimah and
Shelby try to listen in, they hear interference – the room had already been
bugged by someone else. But who? Maybe that was Leon planted in the picture
frame? Or the AIC is aware that Ryan and Alex are digging as the handlers
suspect.
Lydia has been trying to get a hold of someone
called Lucas and is finally able to speak to him by cloning his wife’s cell.
Lucas however is unwilling to share information with Lydia but gives a rather
odd advice “don’t lose sight of the forest just because you’re in the weeds”.
Lydia later hears her father say the same words Lucas said to her to the recruits.
She then figures her father is the reason she’s at the Farm training clueless
recruits and not in the field betraying and killing people. She says some
hurtful words to her father and goes out to make a call and says to the person
on the other line “I’m in. Tell me what I do next”.
Uh oh.
Meanwhile Harry meets a guy at the bar and the guy
is none other than Will Olsen. Harry buys him a drink and introduces himself as
Julian. Looks like Harry is the new Caleb
Present day.
At the FBI headquarters, Shelby tells Miranda she
thinks the AIC is behind the terrorist attack and when Miranda agrees; Shelby
reveals she wrote a report on their failed attempt to infiltrate the CIA sub
cell and Miranda is displeased but asks to see the report which Shelby says is
on her home computer. Shelby gives the file to Miranda on a flash drive and the
second Miranda connects it to her system, her system crashes and IT guys rush
into the place. She then tells Shelby to bring her home computer. Shelby does
and that too miraculously crashes. Shelby then says she has found a single copy
of the file and has given to someone else to distribute. Miranda tries to act
cool at that information but is clearly freaking out.
Miranda gives Alex a list of all the impossible
things she has to accomplish and the latter is determined to succeed. Alex finds
one of the terrorist’s suits and puts it on. As the hostages are being
transferred to a different building, Ryan voices his plan to get into a fight
with Harry and when one of the terrorist tries to break up the fight, take off
his/her mask. Everything goes according to Ryan’s crazy plan except for the
fact that it’s Alex (in terrorist ensemble) who attempts to break up the fight.
Ryan almost takes off Alex mask (and chokes her) when she utters his name
mid-choke.
What
a couple!
Alex gets taken away and so does Ryan. Alex is about
to be shot by a masked woman when she resists and gets into a fight. She discovers
that the masked woman is one of the officials from the Farm and kills her with
poison she found in the suit after asking “why are you doing this”. Seconds later, the woman is
thrown from the roof to where the hostages are with the words “2 down” taped to
her body. We then see Alex walking away in slow motion.
Favorite quotes
Shelby to Alex “Alex you are a sucker for a good looking guy who pulls off the tears"
León
to Alex “You know what happens when you push someone and you push and you push, and they're tired and they're frustrated and they've done time in prison? Maybe you just push a little too much, maybe they don't like it, maybe they snap"
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