ottoDbusdriver December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 Episode Description: After accompanying President Payton on a trip to Qatar, Charlie becomes involved in the strange case of a local who claims to be a CIA asset even though the Agency has no history of him. Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver December 23, 2014 Author Share December 23, 2014 Apparently, the US embassy in Qatar has the slowest gate closer in the history of gate closing technology. Anyone with a backpack on a motorcycle bumrushing the gates of an embassy should be dead, how is this guy still alive ? Why are Charleston Chew and the Maureen even on board Air Force One on the trip to Qatar, other than plot convenience ? I thought the President and the Chief of Staff agreed at the end of the last episode to tail Charleston Chew and find out everything about her -- so nothing came of that ? And now the CoS is trying to get her fired, but the President won't have it because she is almost family. Awwe, isn't that just swell. The Qataris want the gatecrasher back or they will cancel US access to bases, but the gatecrasher didn't actually work for the CIA -- yet -- he has intel indicating the Qataris are selling US weapons to Fatah's network, only he doesn't because the intel was bogus and he was being setup by rogue elements of the Qatari army. The interrogator wearing the mask of Nick's face was just stupid. The CIA can just ignore Marines at the gate of an embassy that's on lockdown. Uh, I don't think so. How did Charleston Chew and the gatecrasher get out of the embassy compound, let alone get back in ? How did Maureen get back to the embassy without any repercussions ? Hacker girl uncovers a stash of top secret communications via a satellite she hacked that was being used by Ar Rissalah just in the nick of time -- how did Ar Rissalah rent time on a satellite ? Is all that info a copy of everything the Russians stole tapping the underwater cable ? And apparently the corporation that both Nick and Syd both used to work for is behind hacker girl. I'm thinking that that same Blackwater-type corporation is who has Nick. Charleston Chew blithely kills a guy on foreign soil, no biggie, all while having flashbacks of Kabul, still no biggie. And the intel is bogus, also no biggie. And then she explodes at the CoS in front of the President, yet instead of getting fired, the President still wants to chit-chat about Kabul and her dead son. This is getting really hard to believe. And was what Charleston Chew wearing in the meeting with the President really appropriate ? You just know that Charleston Chew will be back to being PDB briefer by the end of the next episode. And Fatah shot and killed POTUS's son, but is still working for the CIA. That ends the 'Charleston Chew is a mole theory', unless her memories are fabricated. Did they do this little trip down memory lane in the tub in the Embassy in Qatar ? One minor problem with giving gatecrasher a Canadian passport -- the Qatari military would already have gone ahead and grabbed his entire family. That dude isn't going anywhere or his family will be dead. Link to comment
Netfoot December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 We must pronounce Qatar properly or we'll lose the bases we need to defend against Eye-rack! Yet another l33t h4x0r busting into NORAD or somewhere, using a Mk.I iPhone and a 5¼" floppy disk. A blowtorch to the bollocks! But Nick is tough. He won't talk... Not only will I bust out of the embassy, but before I go I'll just fill the trunk with poorly shredded embassy documents. Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I've got this little thing looks like a remote detonator and I'm about to press the button on it, so don't shoot! Keep your clothes on, because you need to stay warm in this bathtub full of ice-cubes. Link to comment
Dowel Jones December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 Why are Charleston Chew and the Maureen even on board Air Force One on the trip to Qatar, other than plot convenience ? I was beginning to think that it was Star Trek syndrome. As in, send everyone. Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Did I mention that I'm CIA? In a Middle East country embroiled in a spying scandal? I guess the embassy janitor was on his days off so they couldn't dispose of the shred bags like they do in DC. I will give the Chew credit for a bona fide quick draw, though. Why they are so worried about it I don't know. No one knows that she was down there so there isn't any reason to suspect a CIA agent of killing that guy. Random event, so sorry. So, if GateCrasher isn't CIA, and he's not part of the plot to discredit the CIA, why wouldn't he want to talk to the Qataris about how he came across the data? I missed something. Gee, maybe if I worked for a major government intel agency, and maybe if I received some huge amount of WikiData from some hacker, maybe I should set some kind of tail on her to find out her connections. Maybe tap her phone and internet, that sort of thing. Just so I wouldn't get accosted in a parking lot one night. All the way back in Ep. 2, I said to myself, someone behind her is shooting that gun. Now Fatah is revealed, but was Aaron a mole, instead? Or just a convenient way to establish Fatah's loyalty to the cause? Link to comment
Kromm December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 (edited) Wow, the bullshit quotient went even higher on this one. Our heroine going on a field mission herself, because nobody else in the entire spy community was qualified. Secwet hypotism dwugs in a shitty embassy bathroom saving the day! And the actual reveal? LAME. And we got some of the worst acting Heigl has ever done in that bathtub. And the bar with her is so low. It brought to another alternate version of her nickname. "Charleston Scenery Chew". 'Cause that's what we got this week (instead of "Charleston Screw"). And the coming soon stuff? Good lord. Over the top doesn't even BEGIN to describe that preview. Edited December 23, 2014 by Kromm 1 Link to comment
mwell345 December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 Wow, the bullshit quotient went even higher on this one. Our heroine going on a field mission herself, because nobody else in the entire spy community was qualified. Secwet hypotism dwugs in a shitty embassy bathroom saving the day! And the actual reveal? LAME. This. I was about ready to give up on this show, but read in TV Guide that this was a "pivotal" episode. Seriously? That was it? It's a shame Alfre Woodard is being wasted in this mess. No inclination to watch anymore. 1 Link to comment
Kromm December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 This. I was about ready to give up on this show, but read in TV Guide that this was a "pivotal" episode. Seriously? That was it? Sure, if it's "pivotal" as in "stinks as much as someone's sweaty arm pits". 1 Link to comment
saber5055 December 23, 2014 Share December 23, 2014 (edited) Thanks for the recap,Otto, because I can't follow this show at all.. All the foreign names that i can't keep straight, plus countries that I'm suppose to know the politics of, plus all the I'm CIA/I'm not CIA stuff. This show hurts my brain. Although I did think last night that Charleston hasn't been laid for a while. What's up with that? And the ice cube bath ... what was up with that? That was so much more fun when it was done to Mick the vampire in Moonlight. So Nick didn't get his face blowtorched? What was up with that big threat that went nowhere? I still think it should be pronounced ka-TAR. Guess I'm wrong after Charleston schooled us. Edited December 23, 2014 by saber5055 Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver December 23, 2014 Author Share December 23, 2014 Although I did think last night that Charleston hasn't been laid for a while. What's up with that? Maybe that's why she brought Maureen on the trip to Qatar (bom-chika-wow-wow) -- and trusted Maureen enough to allow her to drug Charleston Chew in an ice water bath, bind her hands to the bathtub and not let her drown and finally change her clothes while she was unconscious and put her on the bed. Link to comment
Texasmom1970 December 29, 2014 Share December 29, 2014 Either I am a dumb ass or don't care enough to follow the bad guy details of this show. I just don't like or buy Kathryn Heigl in her role. Not sure why I continue to watch, guess I am a sadist. Link to comment
Kromm December 31, 2014 Share December 31, 2014 Either I am a dumb ass or don't care enough to follow the bad guy details of this show. I just don't like or buy Kathryn Heigl in her role. Not sure why I continue to watch, guess I am a sadist. I believe most of us are watching it as a (unintentional) comedy now. 3 Link to comment
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