Titled: “Leah”
Taken may finally be getting it together, right before the end.
The ODNI team, especially Bryan and Christina, got emotionally involved with a Mossad agent with a big problem in Taken Season 1 Episode 8.
Leah, the Mossad agent, was certainly an interesting character, one worth bringing back if Taken survives beyond this season, a very unlikely possibility.
Leah was a secret agent being robbed of her best weapon – her brain – by early-onset Alzheimer’s.
There were none-too-subtle hints being dropped through the first third of the episode, topped by having her Iranian asset ask her if she was feeling OK.
Then came the question of which country’s spies were trying to kill her: the Iranians or her own.
Frankly, although that did go on for quite a while, that answer was pretty simple. Only the Israelis could be damaged by what Leah might spill in her altered state.
The Iranians were too busy trying to blow the Israeli prime minister out of the sky to be much concerned by one Mossad agent.
And, my, what a tiny diversion that assassination attempt was. It probably took longer to find the farm in Virginia than it did for the quartet of ODNI agents to squash that plot.
Bryan made a serious face at one of them long enough for him to spill his guts. I think for once Bryan’s face was more the focus than his muscles.
Leah’s condition was more of a cautionary tale for Christina.
What happens if that lump in her brain ends up being something serious? Will people in the intelligence community seek to eliminate her, as well?
Probably, because it’s already pretty clear that she has pissed off a lot of important people along the way. That’s what happens when you do the right thing in Washington, D.C. That’s why…..
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