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| There's nothing suspicious about a couple guys in dark clothing staring at an apartment complex with a high powered compact telescope in the middle of the day, right? |
We open up to Agent Dinah Madani still
recovering from the shock of Stein’s death during the botched mission. She’d
been asked by Stein’s mother to give the eulogy at the funeral, further adding
to the maelstrom of issues she’s dealing with. At the same time, Frank and
David are spying of Madani atop the neighboring building. David has gotten
Frank to consider teaming with
Madani, but Frank wants to be absolutely sure that she’s on the up and up
before meeting with her. Their observations are interrupted by a bomb going off
down the block.
Turns out, this is one of three
bombs that went off at government buildings around New York City. Turns out,
Lewis had decided to ‘take matters into his own hands’ and attacked government institutions.
He rights a letter to the one person he feels will understand him, Karen Page,
and sends it in. Upon receiving said note, Karen and her editor call in the
Feds, despite Karen’s desire to call this terrorist out in an article. You
think after being stalked by criminal Kingpins and literal Ninja, Karen’s
self-preservation instincts would have improved.
Back at the lair, Frank and David
watch the video. Frank’s very pissed, as he feels that Bombs are a coward’s
weapon. Probably why he didn’t use one during his various massacres. Pot, this
is Kettle, you are Black. Can’t take credit for that one, I took it from Yugioh
Abridged by LittleKuribo. Frank tells David that they’re putting the meet up
with Madani on hold until this bomber business is handled.
Karen responds to the Bomber via an
article, which annoys Frank, and then calls him out on live radio. Damn it,
Page. But, thankfully, Lewis calling in reminds Frank that he’d seen Lewis
before at Curt’s VA support group. David is able to track him down, and gives
Frank the kid’s home address. On the way there, Frank calls and yells at Karen
for being an idiot. Such a supportive relationship they’ve got.
Menawhile, Curt goes to O’Connor’s
house to find out what the fake war hero knows about Lewis’ whereabouts. He
find’s O’Connor’s body, and get’s attacked by Lewis. The two brawl, but Lewis
ends up getting the upper hand and knocks’ Curt out using his prosthetic leg.
Damn it.
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| There's a face that says, "God, I never thought I'd be nostalgic for a war zone." |
Frank makes it to Lewis’ house,
just in time to get a call that David tracked his phone. Frank rushes over when
he’s told Curt’s phone is pinging at the same location. Frank bursts into O’Connor’s
house, to find his old warbuddy strapped to several claymore anti-personal
mines, and a trigger device. Frank does his best to remain calm and disarm the
bomb. Lewis, who’s watching across the street with a sniper rifle calls Frank. The
two yell at each other about Ethics. Frank REALLY hates using bombs. Why?
Well, it has to do with how Curt lost his leg. Frank explained that Curt was
helping some civilians after a suicide bomb. Frank, who was on point, saw another
bomber coming in, but couldn’t bring himself to shoot her as the woman was very
pregnant. She still pulled the trigger, killing dozens more and costing Curt
his leg. Messed up. He’s able to convince Lewis to let Curt go, but he’d called
the cops earlier.
Frank makes a break for it, running
across town, but ends up having to steal a cop car. At a bar, David approaches
Madani. Special Agent Madani had been planning on revealing everything she’d
learned about Castle and the mole in Homeland at Stein’s funeral. David offers
to give her everything he knows about the incident in Kandahar, and that Frank
was an eye witness. He’s able to name drop Rawlins before the news show’s Frank
evading the cops and stealing a car via dashboard cam. Well crap.
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| Reasonably certain that Frank had hope to never see his face on TV again. |
I’m usually not a big fan of the ‘battle
of ethics’ episode. You know, when a superhero has to explain why his vigilante
justice is more acceptable then someone else’s vigilante justice. I didn’t care
for it so much back in Daredevil season
2 and also not a huge fan of it here. I DO think Frank is in the right, as he
has done everything in his power to decrease or eliminate civilian casualties,
where as Lewis seems to only be targeting civilians, but it does feel like a
pot/kettle situation. I did like the explanation about how Curt lost his leg. I
could see why that might… color Frank’s opinions on bombs. I also like how Curt
doesn’t even blame Frank for a second when he finds out Frank saw the bomber
and didn’t pull the trigger. The man is a saint. Which is kind of ironic given that
his close friend is a major sinner. I also like the idea that Madani was going
to use her friend’s sacrifice to come clean. It’s clear that Stein’s death
messed her up bad, but at the same time she doesn’t want her issues to possibly
derail a major case. So yeah, not a fan of the overarching plot of this one,
but I like the smaller things that occurred in it.
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