This episode revolves around a man whose son has been kidnapped. The reveal is that the dad is an arms dealer, but not the type you're thinking of, he legally sells arms. It's far more lucrative than furniture. But someone shadey asked for guns and he refused.. because he's legal. The bad guys are Arabic terrorists who want to shoot some things.
So we have a sympathetic Arabic bad guy who wants comeupance for the country that killed his wife and daughter. I understand this. I sympathize with it. One one hand this show pulls the same American exceptionalism BS every show pulls where they try to do the "This won't get justice for your wife and daughter, get REAL justice" like bruh. This dude won't get justice. He knows it, I know it, everyone watching knows it. Why are you so dumb? On the OTHER hand there's a concession where Zara shifts gears to "Does that mean all of them have to suffer like you have?" Now THAT is an interesting appeal. Mostly because it's not based in fantasy land logic. This guy will not get justice for his family and probably not for himself but appealing to HIS empathy rather than trying to project your own is .. again interesting.
There are two interesting scenes in the end. One where the police rush in and put everyone in handcuff but the pregnant lady. Why? Two of the three men were terrorists (the third wasn't arabic and clearly white), it makes sense to cuff everyone in the room and soft them out later. Instead they only tie up the men. This feel more like an oversight than anything else considering the police TALKED to the white guy and not the Arabic woman. So they knew who he was but not who she was. It's just a dumb scene that was poorly done.
The other scene involves Yara, the aforementioned pregnant woman part of the team doing the walkaway with the Prophet Who Never Misses and the Black Guy. She signed up for this life, she informs him, but not her baby so she's gonna have to dip out. "Just don't forget to come back" he says. Now my inference was that she would have to leave when the baby is born because her "high stakes job", I say with sarcasm, is too much of a risk even though she's not the hostage negotiator. She's not even second in command.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2021-03-05T19:08:28Z
This episode revolves around a man whose son has been kidnapped. The reveal is that the dad is an arms dealer, but not the type you're thinking of, he legally sells arms. It's far more lucrative than furniture. But someone shadey asked for guns and he refused.. because he's legal. The bad guys are Arabic terrorists who want to shoot some things.
So we have a sympathetic Arabic bad guy who wants comeupance for the country that killed his wife and daughter. I understand this. I sympathize with it. One one hand this show pulls the same American exceptionalism BS every show pulls where they try to do the "This won't get justice for your wife and daughter, get REAL justice" like bruh. This dude won't get justice. He knows it, I know it, everyone watching knows it. Why are you so dumb? On the OTHER hand there's a concession where Zara shifts gears to "Does that mean all of them have to suffer like you have?" Now THAT is an interesting appeal. Mostly because it's not based in fantasy land logic. This guy will not get justice for his family and probably not for himself but appealing to HIS empathy rather than trying to project your own is .. again interesting.
There are two interesting scenes in the end. One where the police rush in and put everyone in handcuff but the pregnant lady. Why? Two of the three men were terrorists (the third wasn't arabic and clearly white), it makes sense to cuff everyone in the room and soft them out later. Instead they only tie up the men. This feel more like an oversight than anything else considering the police TALKED to the white guy and not the Arabic woman. So they knew who he was but not who she was. It's just a dumb scene that was poorly done.
The other scene involves Yara, the aforementioned pregnant woman part of the team doing the walkaway with the Prophet Who Never Misses and the Black Guy. She signed up for this life, she informs him, but not her baby so she's gonna have to dip out. "Just don't forget to come back" he says. Now my inference was that she would have to leave when the baby is born because her "high stakes job", I say with sarcasm, is too much of a risk even though she's not the hostage negotiator. She's not even second in command.