In the first two episodes, Joe’s sociopathy was established, with the team, with the boss, Kaitlyn Meade (Nicole Kidman), and with the family. She remains focused, cool, and on constant alert because lives depend on her, on her subordinates most immediately, but also on the country. She has the unqualified support and understanding of Kate and her husband, Neil (Dave Annable). While Kate does some of the work, Neil and Joe’s connection is very strange. Whether they have an open marriage arrangement is up to them, but the way they treat their family makes them the worst parents in recent TV culture. The practicality they treat their teenage daughter is almost worse than Kate’s (Hannah Love Lanier) irritating rebelliousness. That Joe is a terrible mother because he is more connected to his career is one of the interesting elements of the character, but Neil’s coldness is sociopathic.

The latest episode of the Operation: Lioness series seemed overly stuck in the same dramas, but we can judge that it’s building to something for an upset. In a world where distrust carries the same weight as alliances need to form, it’s especially challenging for Joe (Zoe Saldaña), the leader of Operation Lioness. She is especially tough on the brave but fragile Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira) who is most at risk.

Therefore, returning to the couple, Kate suffers a car accident and barely escapes with her life, but it will hardly save the baby it is not clear that even she was aware that it existed. Neil’s lack of affection and tact sharing in one fell swoop that she lost the baby (or will lose), that her friends died doesn’t even come close to the fact that maybe Kate won’t walk again. But he finds in the midst of this chaos the way to put the blame on her shoulder: ‘See? Didn’t follow our rules? now pay the price. Whereas this whole piece of history will still make sense for us to be following along – for now, it doesn’t – it’s an example of how Joe and his practicality work. What Kate also manages is to disrupt her mother’s mission because Neil called Joe in the middle of a risky operation, but more on that later.

Aaliyah (Stephanie Nur) continues to coddle Cruz in the Hamptons. In addition to a chat on the beach, where she confesses that she didn’t want to get married, the young woman takes the agent to a lively club where, of course, there is a fight, and the two separate. We expected more from a supposedly upscale Hamptons place. I hope that one of the surprises of the story is in the apparently innocent Aaliyah who so far, even with all the balls out of Cruz, plays the misunderstood. She ‘bought’ the car accident from her friend who appeared all bruised, she didn’t suspect that Cruz knew karate to escape a rape inside the house and now, in the club, ‘disappears’ out of nowhere after falling into a ‘good night Cinderella’. Perhaps Aaliyah is sure that Cruz is not an agent precisely because it is so obvious, after all, as Kaitlyn sang, if Cruz fell for the spiked drink so easily, she certainly isn’t ready for the mission, but Joe insists.

I think Aaliyah is more than aware of who Cruz is. Your frequent question for that uncle in Dubai who always has an elusive answer. She directly asked about the arrangement of marriages and the answer was that of a modern woman: she is not on her mind right now, she wants to finish school, have her own life, etc. “You’re so American,” Aaliyah responds in a way that I found more mysterious than someone who believed what she heard. I still believe in that twist ahead. Another tip? It is Aaliyah who chooses the club, which for a few moments seems empty but she warns that it is the place where everyone will go when they are hungry. Bingo. She is always ahead of others. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, Joe has domestic and professional problems. His team was involved in an operation that (almost) went wrong and she was exposed. But Cruz manages to convince everyone that it is indeed necessary now. She’s already figured out where the wedding will be (in Dubai) and pay attention to what Cruz warns: “That’s where Aaliyah wants to get married (in Dubai) and she always gets what she wants.” I would be afraid of that statement, but, for now, it keeps Cruz in the game and we are anxious

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