3.5 Razors

Citadel – Infinite Shadows

  • Title: Citadel – Infinite Shadows
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The theme of trust and secrets slowly being revealed makes up the majority of Citadel’s third episode. “Infinite Shadows” offers a flashback into the first meeting between Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) on a mission in the Alborz Mountains to retrieve a deadly virus a decade ago. Now ten years later, in one of Citadel’s former safehouses, the questions of trust the spies asked each other years ago are as relevant today as they were then. Meanwhile, Manticore tortures Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci) for information and access into Citadel technology. 

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The Lazarus Project – Episode 2

  • Title: The Lazarus Project – Episode 2
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While the interrogation of the prisoner captured in the last episode does weave into the end of the episode, “Episode 2” primarily deals with two separate storylines. The first is George (Paapa Essiedu) being rocked by events involving Sarah’s (Charly Clive) accident. The other, coincidentally taking place on the same night George and Sarah met, are the repeated attempts of Anjli Mohindra (Anjli Mohindra) and her former partner (Brian Gleeson) to stop the end of the world. This helps explain her attempts to ease George’s pain based on her own loss and provide some interesting insight in how many of the reset timelines in which George and Sarah didn’t get together, or even meet, at a party the same night the world ended.

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King – The ACM Kid

  • Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King – The ACM Kid
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Wayback Wednesday takes us to 80s Washington, D.C. and the unusual partnership between a housewife and a spy. Witnessing a kidnapping and the gunning down of an agent by spies, Lee (Bruce Boxleitner) discovers a single witness to the crime in the kidnapped couple’s teenage son Aleksei (Meeno Peluce). However, Aleksei proves difficult to control. Soon in over his head with the boy, who neither he nor the agency know is the wiz kid the spies were after this entire time to break into the computers of a secure facility involved in the launch of a new satellite, Scarecrow enlists Amanda (Kate Jackson) for help.

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The Vigil #2

While the second issue does carry on the theme of introducing  Nia Saha to the world in which The Vigil operates, much to her shock, and we do get a couple of the other members out on other missions, the main focus of The Vigil #2 is on a single member of the team and how his current mission ties into his tragic past.

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