- As Marcus (Andre Braugher) and Sam (Scott Speedman) hunt for the traitor in their ranks who stole their nuclear launch key, Prosser (Robert Patrick) disobeys orders and starts a small war he can't control. Meanwhile Grace and James must work together to defuse a dangerous situation, while back in D.C. Christine is indicted as Sam's co-conspirator.—Anonymous
- "Last Resort" - "Nuke it Out" - Nov. 15, 2012
Things take a very dark turn both on the island and back at home tonight.
First up, in Washington, D.C, Kylie and Christine are thick as thieves now and the plan is to keep duping Paul to buy time and get intel on what's going on.
In the course of the episode they receive two very crucial pieces of intel:
-Kylie meets up with a government mole in an underground parking lot and is given a picture of the White House aide who was killed on the island. Apparently, the cover story was that she died in a plane crash, her body unrecoverable at the bottom of the ocean. Kylie hands this picture over to Christine who promptly goes to the press with it.
-Paul freaks out over this and confronts Christine. Kylie has gotten some serious surveilance equipment so in order to give her time to install it in Paul's car, Christine feints that she might be falling for Paul or at least her resolve weakening to the point that she would consider it. They kiss, she pulls back saying she is confused and tired and under so much pressure that he needs to be patient with her. He goes out to his car and we overhear him telling Curry he wants out, that he doesn't want to do this anymore. Curry asks if he'd like to see his son again. He would so he's stuck. So it would seem that Paul is working under duress and Kylie and Christine now will be plugged in to all his calls.
On the island it's not only the natives getting restless, everyone is because Marcus has gone wild turning the worlds on land and on the sub upside down looking for his nuclear firing key. The key to his power. He can't let anyone know what he's looking for of course, so he's violating everyone's privacy, opening and searching all lockers and bunks and even Sophie's quarters at the NATO station.
The search also turns up several crucial pieces of intel/information for Kendal,Chaplin, James, and Shepard.
-FIrst we learn that some of the sailors have been buying drugs from an islander. COB, in an unusually angry display even for him, goes and tells the dealer to lay off his men. When this doesn't happen, he gives the dealer a serious beatdown. This, of course, does not sit well with Serrat, who deduces that COB obviously had a drug problem of his own at some point. He and his men kidnap COB and in an extraordinary act of barbarism and hatefulness severely burn his feet and then injects him with painkillers and gives him more for when the pain returns so that he will have to become hooked again.
-Second, according to the black ops guy that perpetrated the BZ attack and that Kendal and Chaplin have in custody, the Colorado is seen as a symbol of resistance back home by those trying to overthrow the nefarious president and his toadying administration which is backing his fake war. The black ops guy, who it turns out is CIA and is named Booth, tries to make a side deal with Sam. Give up Chaplin, who everyone back home thinks is crazy, but stay on the island as an arm of the resistance for another six months to a year while the folks back home stage a coup. Then they can come home. Sam isn't biting at first. Booth dangles the possibility that Christine could be brought to him and tells him it's time to stop being so blindly loyal to Chaplin because of North Korea. Sam, of course is torn. That is until Chaplin goes storming into Serrat's home and turns it upside down looking for a key. One of Serrat's men does not care for this and turns one of Chaplin's female sailors into an unwilling suicide bomber and unceremoniously dumps her into the middle of a party Sam threw to build back the morale of the sailors after the demoralizing treatment by Chaplin. Grace and James defuse the bomb. (And apparently get so hot doing so that they go an boink on the beach even though just that day James had told Tani that he was basically falling for her.) When Chaplin returns to Serrat demanding justice, Serrat gives up one of his men and says he acted alone. The female sailor says he did. Then Chaplin goes quiet nuts and says this man threatened the crew and gives a nod to a sailor who shoots the man dead. Sam is aghast. Later he goes to Chaplin and asks "so we're executioners now?" Chaplin just sort of shrugs with a "you gotta do what you gotta do attitude." Sam goes back to Booth and says they might have a deal. (It is both this murder and the drug dealer beatdown that lead an emasculated Serrat-- slapped around by Chaplin in an assertion of dominance-- to torture COB.)
-Chaplin and Kendal are keeping the black op guy hostage and a secret from everyone including Grace. When James and his final SEAL buddy do the math-- the Navy buried four bodies not five-- they go to find the fifth black ops guy Booth. They bump into Kendal who gives it up that he exists but says they have it under control. James blabs to Shepard though and she is angry and confused that not only wasn't she told but Chaplin lied to her face while at the same time accusing her of being the mole during his investigation.
-Fourth, there is a mole but it isn't Grace. Booth confirms to Chaplin and Kendal that the rumors are true, the CIA has a sleeper agent on every nuclear sub in case the captain goes bonkers. That person would need a comm site somewhere on the island to communicate with their handlers and says if they can find that they'll have their mole and their key. Meanwhile, Cortez has become the life of the party. First she gets Shepard to come out with some other female sailors and have a few beers and blow off some steam. She confesses to her that she didn't trade sexual favors to Serrat during her captivity. She offered to be his eyes and ears on the sub. She says once he killed that sailor he knew the deal was off. Grace wonders if she would've done it and Cortez blows off the possibility since a traitor is pretty much the worst thing you could be and like a dog that turns must be put down. Later, she goes to Chaplin during Kendal's morale-building party-- before the suicide bomb shows up-- and at first offers her undying loyalty and then sort of hits on him after offering him a beer. He points out that they still have a code of conduct to follow regarding morals. She says she thought things had changed. He says they haven't changed much. At the end of the episode, of course, we discover that Cortez at least appears to be the mole she goes into the woods and buries Chaplin's nuke firing key under a tree.
-Finally, in the course of tossing Sophie's quarters Sam learns three things: Sophie owes a debt to Serrat on behalf of her now gone boyfriend that she is repaying by taking those mineral samples and that's why she hangs out with him, the island is worth a lot of money because of its natural resources but he can't tell anyone, and that the two of them kissed. She smooths it over saying they were on drugs.
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