To take down a terrorist you have to become one and that’s what the gang has done. It’s been 100 days since Roarke took office and it’s time for the Constitutional Convention. Will they finally take down the Collaborators once and for all or will Roarke eliminate them like he did Alice Winter?

The team is now in charge of recruiting new employees for DISA, Roarke’s new intelligence agency. Sixty-two days until the Constitutional Convention and they can’t find many good candidates. Fast-forward two months, with only two days left and they haven’t made much progress. Oh boy.

At Gold Leaf, Ryan and Alex are happily back together, while Clay and Shelby are closer than ever but not yet official. When the bar closes for the night the team turns their favorite spot into the new bunker pulling computers and files out of the walls and even, the pool table. Way to use your resources guys!

Roarke needs 38 states to officially amend the U.S. Constitution. He has 34 yes’s and 12 definite no’s. The team has to work to make sure the four swing states are no. They ditch their good-guy ways and blackmail the four representatives to have them vote no to save the nation. While celebrating their flipping success, Maxwell Fletcher (Ideology) walks into the door.

He praises them on their creativity in hiding spots but points out how they fail to notice the obvious: new smart TVs with microphones that Peter Theo (Technology) installed. Not only were they caught by the Collaborators, but now they’re out of DISA. Honestly, that may not a bad thing.

Clay mentions if Theo will spy on them, he surely spies on Roarke and the other Collaborators. This means if they can hack into Theo’s systems, they might be able to find enough dirt to take Roarke down once and for all. Alex knows the perfect guy to recruit and  help them betray the country: Will Olsen.

They send Will and Iris (a frenemy of Alex’s while training at Quantico) to go undercover at Theo’s favorite bar to rope him into a threesome. The two go to Theo’s place where they break into his computer system. During that time, Alex, Clay, and a recently recruited Felix plan to sell the information to the Russians for the small price. They need the Russians to persuade Roarke to change the language in one of his currently proposed amendments. For once their plan succeeds without a hitch!

At the convention, Roarke brings Clay into his chamber to threaten him, but Clay gets the last laugh. As he leaves, he places a small camera on the door frame that could come in handy later. In the lobby, Shelby runs into Maxine who is there to protest. She reveals to Shelby that Clay actually kicked her out and “didn’t want to tarnish her good name” in the midst of the political upheaval with his family. Shelby is obviously shook but she can’t wallow in self pity because the plan is officially in motion.

Roarke officially begins the convention stating his home state wants to change the language of one amendment. This is proof that he took the Russian bait. Then on cue, Alex’s face is projected on the room’s giant screen. They play video from the small camera Clay placed in Roarke’s chambers showing he spoke with Russia before he walked onto the convention floor.

Alex continues to blast Roarke by revealing the Collaborators and how they used fear to control America. The team has this plan down to a science. On cue, Iris and Will release all the surveillance they have on the president to 100 major law firms and civil liberty organizations to comb through.

In true Quantico fashion, Alex comes bursting through the doors never breaking eye contact with Roarke. She admits she’s breaking hundreds of laws by revealing classified information but says it’s her duty to the American people to keep them safe from Roarke. Then she gets shot.

So Miranda shot Alex and in the ambulance Ryan is blubbering over her body. But SIKE, it was all part of the plan. Unfortunately for Ryan they couldn’t fill him in on the whole “Alex gets shot” part because they needed his reaction for believability. All he can say as he wipes away his tears is, “How did I do?” Lol.

Will and Iris tell Alex her death certificate is ready to go but it will only buy her time. She plans to disappear for while since she’s been made and well, broke hundreds of laws. In precious Ryan fashion, he will follow her to throw off any tails. How cute, he’s always looking out for bae. Sadly Ryan doesn’t make it all the way to the hangar to say goodbye after having to lose a tail. Instead, Owen is there to prep Alex with her go-bag. They have a precious mentor-mentee moment before she boards her plane to seclusion.

In Roarke’s chambers, Clay comes face-to-face with the president once again. The man knows he’s done and talks about how the other Collaborators can buy their way out from this scandal, but he can’t. Clay sympathizes and leaves. As Clay is walking away, he hears gunshots from the chambers where Roarke just shot himself.

Shelby finds Clay sitting on the steps as Roarke’s body is being wheeled away on a stretcher. She asks how he’s doing and he says, “I won, I think.” Sad to think that this is winning when four of eight Collaborators are dead. Shelby tells him that she talked with Maxine and reveals what she said. She tells him she’s not the one for him and that Maxine is.

Two months later, the gang is together in the bunker. Well, part of the gang. Owen and Shelby are there along with Raina and Nimah who are out of prison, and Clay and Maxine who are married after eloping. Owen reveals Miranda will be in prison for a bit, but that’s the sacrifice she made. Owen is also the new Deputy Director of the CIA to reshape the agency. Congrats!

But the finale doesn’t end there. We flash back to the moment Alex is on the plane alone, or so we think. Ryan was there the whole time. He comes out of nowhere, sits next to Alex and introduces himself recreating the moment they first met before Quantico training in Season 1.

Alex: “You really want to do this? Give it all up for me?”

Ryan: “I’m nothing when I’m not with you. Wherever you run, that’s where I want to be. If you’ll have me.”

Alex fights back tears (and so do I) making it the most pure and beautiful moment in Quantico history.

FINAL CONTRIBUTOR COUNT:

Law: Thomas Roth [Dead]

Money: Christian Kelly

Government: Henry Roarke – President of the United States [Dead]

Ideology: Maxwell Fletcher

Logistics: Rebecca Sherman [Dead]

Technology: Peter Theo
Media: Warren Shepard

Defense: Alice Winter [Dead] ]]> http://tvrecappersdelight.com/quantico-recap-rainbow/ Thu, 11 May 2017 04:09:22 +0000 http://tvrecappersdelight.com/?p=11633 President Haas has resigned, leaving Henry Roarke to take her place. Clay follows in his mother’s footsteps and leaves the team in Owen’s hands. Now that the group knows Alex is undercover, it’s time for them to work together and take down the Collaborators from the inside.

Roarke has been in office for a week and has already signed more executive orders than any other president. Ugh. Roarke also wants to call a Constitutional Convention, the first one since the Constitution was originally drafted. Oh boy, the balls on this guy.

The money and all surveillance information the team gathered on the Collaborators has disappeared signalling that they’re ready to launch their final plan. Unfortunately the team is in shambles with just Owen, Shelby and Alex. But luck is on their side! While Raina and Ryan pout about their situation, the gang recruits Miranda (FBI), Matthew Keyes (CIA) and former FBI trainee and master hacker Will Olsen to help them.

The “B Team”, as Ryan calls them, gets right to work. Will discovers a technology created by Christmas Kelley (Money) was part of a recent plane crash. That technology is being placed into multiple planes nationwide. This could allow the Collaborators to remotely take over a plane’s controls, creating a massive terrorist attack larger than 9/11.

On cue, Raina and Ryan come in stating they’re done with their “time-out” (lol) and want to help. About time guys…. The team learns the code to overtake the plane technology is hidden within Peter Theo’s (Technology) recent “Fun Friend” app that thousands of people have. The Collaborators are targeting planes with Muslim passengers to frame them for the crashes just like they framed Raina for the mall bombing. This attack would align with Roark’s executive order for a Muslim ban in the country.

Alex is at the Collaborators’ headquarters with Alice Winter getting information about the specific planes. When Alice wouldn’t divulge the exact passengers and planes targeted, Alex knocks her out and snaps a picture of the data, sending it to Matthew and Ryan who are running point from the bunker. Alex tries to escape but Alice blocks the exit. After a few kicks and punches thrown, Alex leaves Alice handcuffed to her desk.

Will, Miranda and Owen are at the nearest airport where they try to ground the six planes in jeopardy. They’re too late and all of the planes are in the air. As control tries to contact the planes to make emergency landing, the team realizes that someone has taken over the channels: a Collaborator.

Meanwhile, Shelby finds Clay passed out drunk in a hotel in the middle of Virginia. She learns that Maxine broke off the engagement – leaving him in a heap of sadness. Done with his mess, Shelby doesn’t care and just needs Clay to get the codes that will ground the planes. After a lot of whining and a failed attempt to kiss Shelby, Clay comes through with the code.

Will locates the people interfering with the pilot’s signals and sends Miranda and Owen to take them out. With the codes from Clay and the data from Alex, the team is able to successfully land all the planes and destroy the hacked phones from the innocent Muslim passengers. Take that Collaborators!

Shelby tells Clay to take off his “pity pants” and come back to the team. Clay takes that as an invite to try for another kiss but it’s thwarted when the FBI comes banging on the door. They’re not the only ones the FBI is looking for as the agency visits the Farm and takes the rest of the team to see the president, which is worse than being arrested.

Instead of condemning them to jail or even death, Roarke brings the team in front of reporters and praises them for their good work in thwarting a terrorist attack. He paints them as heroes with the CIA and FBI working together “in the shadows to keep America safe.” Even though he was behind the possible attack, the team’s success just made Roarke look even better in the eyes of the American people. Awesome.

It seems that no matter what the team does, Roarke will always be the good guy. Because of his united display with the team being the face of future change, multiple states have agreed to a Constitutional Convention with changes that will possibly merge the CIA and FBI and also change the face of America forever – the Collaborators plan all along.

The team has 100 days until the Convention to figure out a plan to take them down once and for all. Alex with the dramatics, asks the team the most important question to date, “who wants to be a terrorist?”

Quantico Season Finale airs on Monday, May 15.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Law: Thomas Roth [Dead]

Money: Christian Kelly

Government: Henry Roarke – President of the United States

Ideology: Maxwell Fletcher

Logistics: Rebecca Sherman [Dead]

Technology: Peter Theo

Media: Warren Shepard

Defense: Alice Winter

The House of Representatives is officially impeaching President Haas after her secret task force was revealed. While the impeachment process could take weeks or even months, she wants Clay to get the gang back together and finish the job once and for all. Sadly, with Alex and Owen doing their own rogue mission, it’s up to Clay, Shelby, Ryan and Raina to save the presidency.

The team tries to find information to damage Roarke’s reputation, but they come up empty. Shelby mentions using Felix to get to Roarke, but Clay doesn’t want to betray his friend like that. Instead, Felix betrays Clay by luring him to Roarke’s office. There, Roarke tells Clay if the team sides with him, the task force will be pardoned. Clay turns the “offer” down and storms out.

After the betrayal, Clay tells Shelby they’re going to use Felix to nail Roarke. They plan to use Raina to take down Felix and then flip Felix to take down Roarke. As good as that sounds, the plan doesn’t work because Raina tipped Felix off. Felix tells Clay he no longer works for Roarke, meaning they’re back to square one.

Alex is assigned her first job with the Collaborators. She has to ease the agencies into “Roarke’s America” alongside Alice Winter. Sounds easy enough. First, they meet with Matthew Keys ( CIA chief) and Alex threatens him, telling him to resign or side with the Collaborators. Remember, he’s the one who recruited Alex for the CIA. Alex meets with Owen afterwards and admits how awful she feels. She hates betraying those she once loved and trusted. It also doesn’t help that Ryan keeps calling her nonstop since her and Owen went rogue.

At FBI Headquarters, Alex finally answers Ryan’s millionth phone call, allowing him to track her exact location. In the meeting with Alice, Alex isn’t as poised as she was at the CIA. She was caught trying to bring a water bottle into the building but she didn’t remember putting it there. Once in the meeting she realizes she was the collaborator’s Trojan horse.

After getting away from Alice, she calls Owen and they figure out the bottle was full of a deadly chemical agent and not water. Following protocol, security would have thrown the bottle into recycling and once the chemical breaks down it’ll waft through the vents. The FBI Special Agent’s office who is looking into President Haas is above recycling vent meaning the Collaborators plan to poison him and frame the president for killing her enemy. Owen’s advice? Let the murder happen. Oh boy.

Ryan arrives to FBI Headquarters to find Alex and they come face-to-face in the staircase as she is rushing to the recycling room. Since they couldn’t find the bottle, Alex breaks a vent so the chemical won’t be a direct shot to it’s target. In the end, a few people were hospitalized from the chemical, but because of Alex, no one died like the Collaborators wanted. Small victory!

In the bunker, everyone is reunited and Clay informs them it’s only time before they are all arrested for treason. Admitting he was over his head as the leader of the group, he hands it off the team off to Owen and walks out.

At the White House just before President Haas resigns as the president, Alex visits her. While Alex can’t promise innocent people won’t die, she does promise the president they will win in the end, no matter what.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Law:Thomas Roth [Dead]

Money: Christian Kelly

Government: Henry Roarke

Ideology: Maxwell Fletcher

Logistics: Rebecca Sherman [Dead]

Technology: Peter Theo

Media: Warren Shepard

Defense: Alice Winter

Quickly after learning all the Collaborators’ names, Clay’s email account gets hacked. Come to find out it was his good buddy Felix who works for none other than Henry Roarke (Government). The team quickly realizes they’re all in trouble. Ryan was already targeted by the Collaborators when he witnessed Sasha being blown to bits. Clay is the second victim; it is definitely not a coincidence.

To get the Collaborators together in one location, Owen suggests a party hosted by President Haas. She is the bait they want and Clay’s engagement party is the place to set the trap. Thankfully Maxine agrees to this after Clay basically tells her this event could save the free world. At the party, the team’s goal is to infiltrate the Collaborators and turn them against each other.

Ryan targets Alice Winter (Defense) and to gain her trust, he gets rid of all the mics around them to show they are not being tapped. To up the ante, Ryan even shows Winter the entire layout of the bunker. First the mics and now the bunker layout, c’mon Ryan, you better have a good reason behind all of this.

Thankfully, his courting of Winter works as she confesses to not only Sasha’s murder, but Leon’s. While I’m praising Ryan, I should mention that he even recorded video of the entire confession through fancy spy cufflinks. I’m sorry I ever doubted you Ryan! Winter agrees to give him information and tells Ryan that if he gives her time, she can bring him two more Collaborators.

In a separate room, President Haas offers Roarke the Vice Presidency along with her resignation. He asks “why now?” and she bluntly answer s “to see if you’ll take it.” Roarke turns down Haas’ resignation because he “needs her as President.” Caleb walks into the room with a note for his mom and , as she stands up to leave she says, she’ll be expecting Roarke’s negotiation. The note informed her that Ryan was able to turn Winter, meaning Roarke is about to go down.

In the bunker, Ryan tells the team Winter has agreed to bring Christian Kelly (Money) and Warren Shepard (Media) into the fold. In exchange for immunity, the three will bring down the other Collaborators. Alex believes this could be a trap. Honestly, I agree with her.

When the team leaves Clay calls Shelby into his office. This whole time that Caleb has been droning on about a possible Clay and Shelby fling, he was kind of right. Clay told Shelby that he loves Maxine and , at first, never understood how both Caleb and his father could fall for Shelby, until now. Clay says his dad and brother decided to jump, but he can’t. Clay tells Shelby she can’t quit, but she needs to find a way for him to hate her again. He ultimately fell for the Shelby charm just like the other two Haas men before him.

Sadly, she did what Clay asked. In the kitchen the next morning, Clay is at the table when Caleb comes down shirtless and says he is getting juice for them. On cue, Shelby comes down in Caleb’s robe. When Caleb goes back upstairs she tells Clay she’s sorry and that after their meeting she realized the feelings she had this whole time weren’t towards Clay, but Caleb. Clay was just a fill-in. In the end it was all an act for Clay’s sake and Caleb was in on it, but you could tell Shelby was lying the entire time. She fell for another Haas yet again.

Overnight, Ryan goes to meet Winter, Kelly and Shepard. Instead, he finds a Washington Post reporter videoing him. Apparently Winter informed the Post the CIA is working domestically. As Ryan starts to leave after threatening the reporter, Winter texts him with a “check-mate” gif. That morning when the team arrives to the bunker, they not only learn all their information was wiped clean, but that they’re all over the news. It was leaked that President Haas has a secret team and the newscast showed Ryan and Shelby named as agents. President Haas will likely be impeached, meaning the Collaborators might have won.

The team has one card left to play — it’s Alex. She was offered a spot on the Collaborators by Maxwell Fletcher at the party and she agreed. She was even the one who broke into the bunker to wipe all their records clean. With Owen as her handler, Alex is going undercover to try and take down the Collaborators from the inside. The catch? Only Owen knows.

What does this mean for the rest of the team? Only time will tell.

COMPLETE CONTRIBUTORS PUZZLE:

Law: Thomas Roth [Dead] Money: Christian Kelly
Government: Henry Roarke
Ideology: Maxwell Fletcher
Logistics: Rebecca Sherman [Dead] Technology: Peter Theo
Media: Warren Shepard
Defense: Alice Winter

Leon is dead, Sebastian is still holding Harry hostage and Nimah is turned herself in as Raina. Ugh. But there is good news for Quantico fans: Caleb Haas is back! The president’s youngest is finally rejoining the world after being MIA the last season. He didn’t leave on the best terms with the team, but his charm could always help patch things up. Or can it?

Starting off in the bunker, Owen says they’ve received five pings in five different cities across the nation meaning the Collaborators could be creating a riot in one of the locations. Clay wants to run scared and end the entire mission, but sadly for him his team is made up of the country’s strongest agents. They stand up to him and vow to take down the Collaborators no matter the cost.

Because they’re brilliant, the team figures out the targeted city is Cleveland. There, a jury is in deliberation over the case of a man accused of shooting and killing an intruder with an illegally obtained gun. Even though the intruder killed his wife, if the defendant is found guilty his life is over. It’s all happening in Cleveland because the former president, whose cabinet President Haas served in, created a bill about owning illegal firearms. Emotions are running high around this case and a guilty verdict will set off a political reaction that will harm President Haas’ status and take her down. – which the Collaborators want.

When Clay decides to go see mommy dearest in the White House in an effort to disband the team, guess who’s waiting for him there: Caleb. Man, I missed this guy. Disagreeing with Clay, the president thinks he should change up his plan of attack instead of give up. Thankfully that plan involves Caleb.

In Cleveland, Shelby, Alex and Raina are there to convince the special agent on the case their help is needed. Unfortunately for them that special agent is none other than American traitor and their former FBI trainer, Miranda. This should be fun.

Because Miranda is smart she knows the trio is not there to help her and she calls Raina out for not being Nimah. Seems they’ve forgotten that Miranda basically created the twins at the academy. Even with Miranda breathing down their necks, they’re able to get the jurors’ personal information so they can get into their heads and influence the verdict. Alex was able to get one juror to admit the case judge, Judge Kaplan, is pressuring them to a guilty verdict.

The three, unfortunately with Miranda in tow, confront the judge. He admits to being blackmailed into a forced trial, but before he can call it a mistrial they’re informed the jury had already reached a verdict and it’s guilty on all counts. Let the riots begin.

Shelby calls Clay to warn him that Roarke plans to be on the Cleveland courthouse steps to “calm the crowd down.” The Collaborators were using the trial to win the will of the people. Gross. Surprisingly, the recently nervous wreck Clay tells Shelby to relax because “he’s got this.”

He’s right because just as Roarke gets to the steps Madame President herself is standing there with a smile on her face. Oh, the Haas family is good.

Not only is the Haas family good, but Clay feeds her Roarke’s speech from when they met earlier at the Capitol and Roarke offered Clay a job. The crowd eats up her words of encouragement and you can almost see the life drain from Roarke’s eyes. For once, the gang won.

Alone in the bunker, Owen jumps an intruder who copied files off one of the laptops. That intruder is Sebastian. Ryan appears and the two learn that Sebastian is a current operative working undercover. Not only did he let Harry go (thank goodness), he said he discovered their secret team when he followed Thomas Roth on the day he and Rebecca Sherman were shot in Central Park.

Sebastian admitted he didn’t shoot the two and even gave Owen and Ryan what they’ve been looking for this entire time: the names of all eight Collaborators. He made a deal with them to share any information from here on out. Wow, a second win for the day.

That evening, Shelby goes to thank Clay for not giving up on them. As she’s about to leave her former beloved Caleb enters the room. Shelby swiftly tries to leave because Caleb’s ignored her efforts to contact him for weeks. Goofy Caleb is awesome, but he’s not 100 percent awesome. He tells Shelby that whatever she has going on with Clay (nothing) needs to end or he will make her life a living hell. Um, okay.

Now let’s talk about Ryan’s personal life for a second because while all of this has been going on, his love life has been quite interesting.

Ryan has been casually dating/trying to get intel on a journalist named Sasha who is a possible Russian spy. Suspicious of her, he bugs her apartment. He’s correct because after he leaves, Sasha opens a hidden back to her wardrobe and grabs multiple files with photos of the Collaborators and Caleb Haas’ attached.

Later, he overhears recordings of Sasha speaking in Russian. She mentions Ryan and plans to meet with someone at The Gold Leaf bar. Once there, Ryan learns he’s been tricked since Sasha found his bug. She in turn gives him her apartment key so he can search her it himself for any secrets. Any trust Ryan had goes out the window when he finds a bug inside the keys. Did this girl really think he wouldn’t find it?

While the key bug might have been dumb, Sasha is smarter than we’re led to believe. She contacts Patrick Theo, technology Collaborator, and begins questioning him on the other confirmed Collaborators. He hangs up quickly when he realized where she was going. Maybe she is one of the good guys. She tries to prove that when Ryan tries to return her apartment key.

Sasha tells him she has to run down a lead but to meet back at her place in an hour. Well, that probably won’t happen since her car blew up right after she got into it.

Poor Ryan, he can never have anything good.

COMPLETE CONTRIBUTORS PUZZLE:
Law: Thomas Roth
Money: Christian Kelly
Government: Henry Roarke
Ideology: Maxwell Fletcher
Logistics: Rebecca Sherman
Technology: Peter Theo
Media: Warren Shepard
Defense: Alice Winter

Last time we saw Raina she was being abducted. Now, she’s sitting at The Gold Leaf pretending to be her sister Nimah. Alex thought she was meeting Nimah, but when really it’s Raina. Raina tells Alex she was attacked and her apartment was set up to look like she was planning an attack.

Cue the text messages to the team because something has happened and they are to report to the bunker because a bomb went off at an Ohio shopping mall. The suspect is a woman wearing a hijab similar to what Raina typically wears. Coincidence? I think not.

Of course this is the work of the collaborators. But why such a public attack? They have kept their dealings under wraps until now. Either they’re getting more confident or they’re sending the team a message. Clay mentions he saw a money trail a week back, but since nothing came of it, he figured they ditched whatever they were planning. Sadly, that wasn’t the case. It was all a political ploy by the collaborators. The House of Representatives has a vote on S322, a national entry-exit registry system. The system would allow Homeland Security to keep tabs on non-American citizens from countries they believe could cause concern which most are exclusively Arab or Muslim. Hence Raina’s possible framing.

Let’s also not forget that the Speaker of the House is Henry Roarke, aka the collaborators’ Government piece. Now, the team’s job is to make sure S322 is never passed, because that’s what the AIC and collaborators want. It hasn’t passed two times before but with the bombing and a Muslim woman being painted as a terrorist, it’s likely to. The gang isn’t only trying to save one of their own this time, they’re trying to protect the millions of Muslims in America.

While everyone else is in the bunker trying to figure out which way the representatives will vote, Alex is on the Farm with Raina trying to figure out who framed her. Rayna said she and Leon were investigating these people to try and get to the truth about the AIC. After Raina gives Alex a lead, Nimah tries to make amends with her estranged sister. After what Nimah did during the G20 Summit, Raina can’t find it in her heart to forgive her.

Owen and Alex find one of the people who attacked Raina at her apartment. The attacker said the people who hired him are going to kill him because Raina’s body was supposed to be in the mall rumble after the bomb went off. hile they try to cut a deal with the informant they get bombarded with hundred of bullets in a massive shootout, leaving them with a dead informant and without the information they needed. Seems like everyone struck out.

Clay, Nimah, Shelby and Ryan are on The Hill trying to secure swing votes to make sure the bill doesn’t pass. Nimah and Shelby learn the votes will ultimately come down to President Haas. Everyone knows she’ll veto it which will lead to an uprising, with any new acts of terrorism blamed on her — the entire goal of the collaborators and Roarke. Oh, and to make things worse, during the vote the media names Raina as the terrorist.

To save her sister and to right all wrongdoings since the G20 Summit, Nimah decides to turn herself in, as Raina. Nimah knows these people from the team’s research and she’s better equipped to survive. Talk about taking a move from ‘The Parent Trap.’

In the bunker, Clay is watching the news about his mother vetoing the bill. Of course everyone is up in arms about her decision and Clay feels it’s his fault. He even reveals to Shelby he tried to persuade her to pass the bill even though it goes against what he believes. Disappointed in his actions, Shelby does what she does best and meddles. She grabs her phone and makes a phone call to the only person who can help the Haas Family: Caleb.

CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS PUZZLE:
Law: Thomas Roth
Money: Christian Kelly
Government: Henry Roarke
Ideology
Logistics: Rebecca Sherman
Technology
Media
Defense

The gang has uncovered two of the eight names they need to fill in the collaborator puzzle. While the team is slowly kicking ass and taking names, they don’t realize there are bigger issues at stake. Leon was taken and is dead, meaning while the team is hunting down bad guys, bad guys are also hunting them.

The two masked people who left Leon to die in a bathtub are now setting up their next victim. The deadly duo lay out blue prints and a laptop filled with Arabic symbols in someone’s apartment to make them look like a terrorist. Rude.

In the bunker, Clay starts by giving Nimah props for catching their latest ping. Their target is socialite Rebecca Sherman. She downloaded material about the U.S.’s vulnerabilities in passport control earlier that day. This woman is crazy connected and she could be the glue that holds the entire scheme together making her the third puzzle piece, Logistics.

Rebecca is not only a socialite but a party planner, from weddings to ‘Tinder Parties.’ Lucky for the team, their high-and-mighty leader is engaged, meaning Clay is about to be their bait. Of course, he isn’t totally on board.

Thank God for Harry because he points out how Clay never does the dirty work. This ends up guilt-tripping the ‘First Baby’ into the con. Clay and his fiance, Maxine, plan to meet with Rebecca to consult them on their future wedding to gain access to Rebecca’s personal computer.

At Rebecca’s home, Maxine and Clay go to ‘view the gallery upstairs’ while Alex, who is posing as secret service, pulls Rebecca aside to ‘get security details down.’ While Rebecca is psychoanalyzing Alex in the kitchen, Clay is upstairs searching the socialite’s computer.

He’s also doing this in front of Maxine who has no idea what Clay does for a living. Since Maxine isn’t too fond of secrets she storms out of the house alarming Rebecca. She goes upstairs and catches Clay at her computer. Instead of threatening Clay and Alex, Rebecca asks for their help. She said someone is trying to kill her.

Twist! Rebecca is not an evil mastermind, instead, all her parties she’s thrown over the years has brought together the group of collaborators the team is trying to bring down. Rebecca told them that the reason she hacked into the passport system was to find a way to escape with her family.

She gives the team the name of a lawyer, Thomas Roth, making him the fourth puzzle piece and the face of Law. With the team watching and listening, Rebecca schedules a meeting with Thomas in the middle of Central Park. The signal the team was using to listen in on goes dead and in seconds, Thomas and Rebecca are shot dead on site.

Everyone spreads out to find the shooter immediately. Lucky for Harry, he spots a guy carrying a guitar calmly away from the scene. He catches up the mystery man who turns out to be Sebastian. Dun Dun Dun.

Remember that apartment from earlier? Come to find out it was Rayna’s, Nimah’s twin sister. As she walks in she sees the setup right as Nimah is calling her. She can’t answer the phone because she’s too busy trying to fight off the two masked people who are trying to kill her. Great.

And if that’s not enough, Harry finally calls Alex hours later after not returning from the mission. He tells her not to worry and that he’s quitting the team because it wasn’t the right fit for him. Sadly she believes him. He only said that because Sebastian had him at gunpoint.

It wouldn’t be Quantico if friends didn’t turn on friends, huh?

Being new to the undercover agent game, Clay wants to get to know the team better. He asks Owen to help him understand them as agents since he’s worked with them before. There’s tension between the two as they’re both slowly trying to learn their roles within the team. Are they both leaders? Or does Clay still have the upper hand?

The team now trying to figure out who is behind the explosion of a chemical plant near a neighborhood in Brookwell, Virginia.

When watching the explosion video, Owen realizes it’s a fake. For whatever reason their target wants something from that town and they need it empty to get it.

The team learns that a group of internet trolls created the story and changed the URLs to make readers think they’re reading legitimate news. The team has to go undercover to visit the ‘troll farm’ near the town. While no one on the team has a personal connection to the trolls, they luckily know someone who does: Harry Doyle. Woo!

Sadly Alex couldn’t convince Clay that Harry deserved a spot on their team. So this is her second chance to prove that Harry belongs.

At the troll farm, Harry and Alex walk in as media consultants to gain information. After a few guns were drawn, the dynamic duo discovers the trolls were paid by Greypool, a private, American military company.

While the trolls created the story to evacuate the town, they also escalated it so the company would have more time to find what they were looking for. But the team still doesn’t know what that thing is.

Cue Nimah. Because Clay doesn’t trust her, he left her to sit at home alone to ‘research.’ She obviously finds something and tries to call Clay but he screens it and tells the team they’re heading to Brookwell. I’d say poor Nimah, but she doesn’t need my pity.

In Brookwell, the team goes undercover as EPA agents to uncover what Greypool wants. Owen and Clay stay in a van offsite to run point. Just ask Alex and Ryan head into a house to investigate, Nimah shows up to the mission unannounced to inform Clay and Owen she discovered what Greypool wants: a person.

See Clay, Nimah is more than a ‘glorified mascot.’ You go girl.

Alex and Ryan find the ‘package,’ Mallory Hanes, hiding in the basement of one of the houses. Mallory used to work for Senator Baynard as a ‘media guru,’ whose job was to create fake news. The most recent story he had Mallory write was about a bakery that, because of the story, got shot up. Oh, and 11 people died. Now, Mallory believes Baynard wants to eliminate anyone who knows the truth behind it.

Mallory even says, “Ironic isn’t it? They used fake news to get the girl who created fake news for them.” But what she doesn’t know is that there’s a bigger puppet pulling all the strings.

As Alex and Ryan try to make their escape, Greypool lackeys show up to investigate. Thankfully Dayana and Harry come barreling into the house to distract them. A massive bloodbath ensues outside but not too much damage is done because Clay and Owen show up their their trusty getaway van and everyone makes it out alive.

In the bunker, Clay reveals that Nimah not only figured out what Greypool wanted, but also who was pulling the strings. She was able to put a face behind the Government: Speaker of the House Henry Rourke. Even though Clay didn’t have faith in Nimah from the start, she showed him she was worth his time and figured out the second piece of the puzzle.

After a whirlwind of a week the gang has a lot to celebrate while at the Gold Leaf Bar: they found the next piece to the puzzle, Alex and Ryan realize they’re better off not together, Owen and Clay have learned to balance out their roles, and Harry officially joins the team. Yay!

Of course it wouldn’t be Quantico if it ended on a happy note.

While at the bar, Shelby calls Leon to check in and, well, Leon’s phone rings while in the hands of a masked woman. She drops the phone on a bag that’s laying next to a bathtub and all you see is a bloody hand hanging over the end of the tub, presumably Leon’s.

Oh boy.

CURRENT PUZZLE:

Law
Money: Christian Kelly
Government: Henry Rourke
Ideology
Logistics
Technology
Media
Defense

Just a few weeks after they learned about President Haas’ group, the five are living their normal lives. Shelby and Alex are busy with the FBI, Dayana is shacking up with a guy while both Ryan and Nimah seem to be taking personal time.

It’s not until they’re summoned to the Farm for a meeting that the gang is reunited. They learn that the son President Haas referred to who will be leading them is not Caleb, but his brother Clay. #WeWantCaleb

The team’s ultimate goal is to take down the AIC once and for all and they start by locating the people who stole the drives during the G20 Summit terrorist attack.

Someone recently downloaded the files that dealt with America’s domestic cargo planes, and one was shot down in Kentucky. Their job is to put the pieces together and figure out who was behind the attack and learn their motives.

Clay introduced them to a map, or more a puzzle. The words Law, Money, Government, Ideology, Logistics, Technology, Media and Defense are displayed on a board and they have to put a face to every word. The tricky part is, they don’t even know what word they’re trying to find at the beginning of each case.

They start to brainstorm and it is a scene straight from ‘The Breakfast Club.’ The five are locked in a room and have to come up with a plausible answer to ‘who done it.’ Shelby is being cold to Nimah over the G20 Summit while Ryan and Alex are being, well Ryan and Alex. Nothing is getting done so Clay sends in the big guns.

Owen.

The first thing Owens says is to follow the money. That led them to Gregory Investment Partners, owners of the plane that went down. The firm is throwing a gala, meaning the team is going undercover. No more class assignments kids!

During the party, Alex and Owen pretend to be part of a private security firm to get Sean Gregory upstairs where they steal his fingerprints to break into his database. Dayana’s job is to hack the base while Ryan is trying to keep Emily, a major investor, occupied.

Ryan doesn’t do a great job and she leaves to go upstairs with Sean. Alex was still up there and saw them go into an office together. As she was moving in to spy, Harry comes out of nowhere. Gotta love him.

Harry and Alex eaves drop on the two and learn that they’re not funding the AIC, but running a Ponzi scheme. So they strike out.

Back at the Farm, Clay tells them they’re done after failing to identify the terrorist. Yes, the crew uncovered a massive scheme, but they didn’t uncover AIC. He calls them all petty teenagers and I definitely agree.

Afterwards at the bar, Alex meets with Harry and hands him back his ID, which she stole. She found out that he is no longer working for MI6 because they kicked him out after blowing his mission to infiltrate the CIA. Since the attack, he’s been trying to prove his worth.

Hmm… New squad member?

To help his old buddy out and possibly himself, Harry and Alex try to figure out who is connected to the plane crash. They go through stocks and learned that an independent investor named Christian Kelly invested in a company connected to the plane that crashed. The duo proves that Kelly is the first piece of the puzzle. He is the money.

Because of their hard work, the spy squad lives to see another day.

In darker news, Leon had been in contact with Dayana and Alex telling them someone is out to not only kill him, but everyone involved with the CIA. They think he is being paranoid and even met with him to try and get him help. They think he is imagining things but he’s not, because right as he walks out of the bar he is ambushed and thrown into a trunk.

Quantico is back y’all.

The hostages are safely with the FBI, but Will is not. He was kidnapped and apparently Dayana is his kidnapper. Lydia has entrusted Alex to go back into the trenches and not only save Will, but find the drives Lydia hid before the AIC does.

THIS WEEK’S PAST: This assignment is about exposure and how to stay alive. Each agent must create an Emergency Action Plan in case of capture so they can survive. Their other assignment is to create a will before they become operatives in case they die. Goodness this job is grim!

The FBI shows up asking Owen about a man found burned at a warehouse aka the same one he and Alex were at. Apparently the man they saw just before the warehouse exploded was a former CIA operative named Jeremy Miller.

While the FBI ruled Jeremy’s death a suicide, it corners Owen about the CIA tracker found at the NSA office. Apparently the one Ryan planted was for Jeremy’s use, but the one Alex planted traced everything back to Owen.

The FBI charges Owen for placing a tap at the NSA, meaning Owen is going to go down for his daughter’s actions. What a saint.

THIS WEEK’S PRESENT: At FBI headquarters, Nimah turns herself and Miranda into Shelby because of the information they have on The Citizen’s Liberation Front. Miranda starts off by telling Shelby she’s not a traitor. Miranda said that Jeremy Miller, aka the supposed dead guy, reached out to her after he faked his death and told her the AIC was real and more dangerous than they thought. Apparently, the AIC recruited him after he was cut from the Farm.

Jeremy told Miranda that they needed someone from the FBI to help the CLF. Having a higher up within the FBI would ensure the agency wouldn’t get in the CLF’s way. It was created to stop the terrorists before things happened, except this time the terrorist were hunting them.

Everything started to go down at the G20 Summit when the CLF learned that the first lady was plotting against the country with the terrorists. She was the one who invited many of the CLF members to the summit to begin with. The CLF knew that whatever the true terrorists were planning started with the drives that Lydia stole.

Miranda swears to Shelby that she had no idea they would kill the first lady. She expected them to create a hostage situation and not go bloodthirsty.

After hearing their story, Shelby returns to tell Miranda and Nimah that the Islamic Front has taken credit for the attack on the G20 Summit. This means that the CIA, FBI and any other federal agencies were clear of involvement. It’s all an official coverup making both Miranda and Nimah free women.

Back at the crime scene, Alex, Ryan, Lydia, Leon and Harry are banding together to go back into the tunnels to find Will and Dayana. Lydia believes that Dayana kidnapped Will so he can decrypt the drives and finish the mission of the AIC.

Alex splits from Lydia and finds Dayana and Will in a library where they were trying to destroy the drives. Confused, Alex thought they were just retrieving them. Dayana said that Lydia is her boss and she told Dayana to meet in the library with Will and the clear the drives before the hostages even left the tunnels.

At that moment, someone shoots Alex in the back.

Thankfully Alex has a vest on and is all right, but Dayana is in the wind. Alex struggles to get up and finds Lydia plugging the drives into the server. She confronts Lydia saying she knew all along she was AIC, but Lydia denies it. Lydia repeats what Carly said in the tunnels, that she is a CIA operative who is protecting this country.

While the two go at it in a good ole fashion fist fight, Will is frantically trying to stop the drives from being uploaded to the server. But he was too late. The drive Lydia released had information on how America operates and information on the easiest way to attack.

TWO WEEKS LATER: Shelby and Alex are at the White House waiting to meet with President Claire Haas when Ryan, Nimah and Dayana walk in.

Claire arrives and announces she is creating a secret task force to protect the country against its enemies. This team’s job is to take down enemies who think they’re untouchable and organizations who think justice doesn’t apply to them. They will go beyond what the FBI and CIA can even do.

The five are loving their new job titles, but Alex does pose an important question: who do they report to?

President Haas responds: “my son.”

Get ready because Caleb Haas is back in the house.

Quantico will return on Monday, March 20.