This follow-up to three of the show's highest-rated episodes (a self-contained trilogy) feels like a new beginning - even the intro is different. Reese is still trying to deal with Carter's death and takes a trip to Colorado (his hometown), so Shaw takes center stage. And this actually makes the action more realistic, not less: with Reese you have a superman that you know will always come out on top; with Shaw there is a sense of real danger to the mission. And then there is the final plot twist: the show has already done this "Usual Suspects"-type of twist at least twice before (with Elias and Root), but the reason it works again here is that they throw a big red herring your way (Vigilance), so even if you suspect that something is not quite right with the wife (as I did, when Shaw said "everyone I trust is in this room"), you probably won't suspect who she REALLY is. A very good episode. *** out of 4.
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