S02.E05: Shatter the Moon

[paigow]

Air Date: Nov 17, 2024

The warehouse discovery rattles the team. Joe is torn between two urgent missions.

[HerkyJerky]

OMG! That last scene..

The show keeps getting better and better. 🤯

[Snazzy Daisy]

Is Joe trying to mould Cruz into becoming a handler, a Joe 2.0? 🤔

Is suicide vest really a Mexican cartels’ MO??!

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“I’m supposed to look at people I love in the eye, lie to them, blow their whole  fucking world apart, take their freedom, maybe even their lives. You think you can do that?”

CRUZ: Bitch, please. 🙄

The look on Josie’s face when she realizes what her father truly is.  
 

[dwmarch]

One thing that took me out of the story a bit was the mention by various characters of how "OMG, the Cartel has helicopters now!" Umm, I'm pretty sure people have been using helicopters to smuggle drugs around for the entire history of helicopters. I think what they meant to say was along the lines of the Cartel not being known for fielding MH-6 Little Bird Special Operations helicopters that have twin M134 Miniguns. But it would not surprise me at all to find out any Cartel anywhere had modified a civilian helicopter into an attack version by bolting guns onto the side of it. It's not exactly a new idea either.

Another thing I didn't love was Joe's temper tantrum. I get why she had it but it makes me wonder how she ever got this far in her career if she has a tendency to go off like that when something shitty happens. Because it was also made very clear in this episode that shitty stuff happens all the time, everywhere in the world.

Also, Joe's daughter still has that same boyfriend who has been dubbed "champion of heavy petting" or something. Um, did we forget that plot last season where your daughter found herself unexpectedly pregnant and then suddenly not pregnant due to a car accident? Did we just decide that never happened? He didn't knock her up by petting her!

17 minutes ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

Is suicide vest really a Mexican cartels’ MO??!

It's a common enough thread in military/spy thrillers to almost be its own genre. The Cartel teams up with terrorists (usually but not always of the Islamic variety), there is some brutal attack on US citizens and/or officials and the US responds in anger by sending in Special Forces. But things go wrong and the politicians lose their nerve, leading to soldiers/sailors getting killed unnecessarily in the attempted (and usually unsuccessful) ass-covering. Color me surprised if this season doesn't play out exactly like this. Aside from the infiltration plot, this season is playing out a lot like Clear and Present Danger so far.

[paigow]

15 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

The look on Josie’s face when she realizes what her father truly is.  

He is some kind of zealot?? Not just a greedy money launderer

[Snazzy Daisy]

3 hours ago, paigow said:

He is some kind of zealot?? Not just a greedy money launderer

Or just an old-fashioned sexist. Seeing his daughter's masculine "girlfriend" has taken him by surprise.

 

Edited November 18, 2024 by Snazzy Daisy

[paigow]

1 hour ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

Or just an old-fashioned sexist. Seeing her daughter's masculine "girlfriend" has taken him by surprise.

All his cycle of empires blabbing was confusing... He wants to blow up the empire? Or it is already dead and he is rising from its ashes??

[Snazzy Daisy]

Lioness | Cruz's Advice for Josie (S2, E5) | Paramount+

 

[Snazzy Daisy]

Lioness | Cruz Has Always Been Smart (S2, E5) | Paramount+

 

[KittyQ]

So, this guy hasn't seen his daughter in some time (years?) and this is his dinner table talk? No "what's your life been like?" or "We really missed you!" Instead, he delivers this villain-ish soliloquy about empires rising and falling. It wasn't clear where he thought he was in that cycle. I think if Josie (?) had qualms about the mission, that should have clarified things for her. Get Mom and maybe the maid out of the way and let Dad take the fall. 

That scene with the kids at the end was heartbreaking. Although, again, if your business involves trafficking kids, why kill them all? They are still inventory (so to speak), so why destroy it just because you might be caught? Someone might have still recouped the loss.