Ryan and Greer plus the French DGSI team investigate an apartment after an explosion. They find the SIM cards and this confirms the use of TracEuro for money transfers. They also discovered that the only visitor Suleiman had in prison was his brother Ali and he had lived in “the 93”, a Muslim neighborhood in Paris.
While in the car with Cpt. Arnaud the French policewoman, Jack wonders why Suleiman turned to extremism? He received a degree in business and was at the top of his class. He could have used his degree and “gotten out”. Arnaud points out that it was different from the U.S. In France, a person was either French or not French and they had fewer opportunities if they were Muslim. Despite his education, he may have always intended to become the leader of Muslim extremist activities?
Hanin’s uncle Fahi has procured some passports for Hanin and her children to leave the country. Suleiman discovers them in her hiding place and he burns them. Hanin is devastated but still determined to leave and she escapes with her daughters in a car left for her son. Her son Samir made a decision not to go with them but to stay with his father.
In an entirely different plot line, Victor Polizzi was working as a drone a pilot in Nevada. He killed a target in Syria and another drone pilot gave him a dollar bill. He collected many dollars, numbered them and hung them on his wall. Victor decided to take his dollars to a casino and play roulette. He seemed lucky and quickly turned them into $30,000. Victor feels he was wrong to kill the Syrian target but he was under orders to fire. 5* (I really liked this episode.
TV movie, action directed by Patricia Riggen and Daniel Sackheim with John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Ali Suliman, Dina Shihabi, executive producers Carlt Cuse, John Krasinski, Morten Tyldum, Graham Roland, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, March Ross, Mace Neufeld, director Patricia Riggen, writer Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland.
Note: tveskimo.com 8* out of 10*, Amazon 4.1* out of 5*, Metacritic Season 1 66 out of 100 with 38 critic reviews 6.7* out of 10* with 146 user scores.
Special Note: Background of director Michael Bay. He had an incredibly successful commercial and music video career. The he made some of the biggest, loudest and highest-grossing movies of all time. While he certainly made a lot of money for his studio bosses, Bay earned considerable scorn from critics and other detractors. It was because they deplored his testosterone-fueled action vehicles that were full of incessantly moving camerawork and frenetic editing. They were also short on story with three dimensional characters.
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