S01.E06: The Playbook

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As Weir struggles to cope with the loss of his team, his relationship with Ben falls prey to Weir's paranoia and mistrust. After connecting the dots between Senator Nora Evers and Crowley, Weir and his team make a plan to finally reach Crowley by staging a heist at maximum security facility. Meanwhile, a distraught Intern enlists Eliza for help.

Dropping April 23, 2023

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So after watching this episode, my understanding of what is going on is this:

- Ben and Crowley are/were friends or colleagues going back at least 40 years

- When John suggested that perhaps Hailey is Crowley, why didn't Ben say no?  Not sure why Ben isn't forthcoming.

- Senator Evers was sponsoring a bill that would give somebody (corporations?) more access to people's personal information

- She was working with Crowley, who wants the bill to pass so he can gain control over people

- He was blackmailing her with sensitive documents about her that were stored in that secure vault

- She agreed to give Weir the identity/location of Crowley if he would obtain the blackmail documents for her

- He got the suitcase, she doublecrossed him, but it turned out he had anticipated this by handing her flunky a fake

- He went back and got the actual documents, and she agreed to cooperate

- But Crowley had Evers killed.  Kyle got his girlfriend to do it, and then killed her.

- John has been checking his Sudoku app, he has an active game open with Valence and they use the chat function to communicate

- He gets a chat message from Valence.  But we saw Valence's dead body and splatted head on the pavement.  Is this really Valence or someone else?

 

Overall, I'm glad that this episode cleared some things up, at least now we know the motive behind what is going on.  Crowley wants to control information and make money off of having that control.  But is Ben working with Crowley or against him?  I'm confused by the images that Kiefer keeps having of Ben being the one to kill the team.  This seems to suggest he doesn't know whether Kyle or Ben killed his team.  Could Ben in fact have been the shooter?