Espionage

CIA – Fatal Defect

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  • Title: CIA – Fatal Defect
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The second episode of CIA continues the odd couple dynamic of Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss) and Colin Glass (Tom Ellis) working uncover the true purpose of a foreign intelligence officer (Melinda Michael) smuggled into the United States. We get a few twists and turns along the way before the episode ends with the pair preventing another attack. Along the way Bill gets more close-up evidence of Colin spinning lies to suit the occasion (although only the audience partakes in the reveal of how much the man has lied over the course of the episode).

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Butterfly – Busan

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  • Title: Butterfly – Busan
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With all members of David’s (Daniel Dae Kim) safe, for the time being, the third episode of Butterfly begins filling in information about the pasts of its characters. Not only do we get flashbacks to David being burned in the field, the ambush that killed his men, and his decision to become a ghost, but thanks to a little interrogation David and Rebecca (Reina Hardesty) also learn that Juno (Piper Perabo) was behind it all. We also see more of Juno’s double-dealings being looked into putting her even further on edge as she sends an assassin after both David and Rebecca to kill them and retrieve her son.

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Butterfly – Daegu

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  • Title: Butterfly – Daegu
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While still shell-shocked that her father is alive, Rebecca (Reina Hardesty) leaves with him but keeps the door to Juno (Piper Perabo) open, not yet ready to throw her life away. The most notable aspects of the two episodes involve David (Daniel Dae Kim) and Rebecca struggling, and failing, to establish trust, the pair working together to get around a police checkpoint and later working together to save David’s wife and the young daughter he hadn’t gotten around to telling Rebecca about just yet.

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War 2

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  • Title: War 2
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A direct sequel to 2019’s War, although other films within the shared YRF Spy Universe take place in between, War 2 returns Hrithik Roshan as Major Kabir Dhaliwal who, by all appearances, has been working as a mercenary for hire while only his longtime friend Colonel Luthra (Ashutosh Rana) knows is still putting India first even if it is no longer as an official member of the R&AW. The first thing you notice from the film, in an extended action sequence in the mountains of Japan, is how much sleeker and polished it looks compared to the first film (having more than double the budget than the original War).

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Butterfly – Pilot

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  • Title: Butterfly – Pilot
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Based on the graphic novel of the same name, our story opens with a spy (Daniel Dae Kim) hunting an assassin (Reina Hardesty) in South Korea on the night she kills an American ambassador. The twist? These characters are revealed to be a father and daughter who haven’t seen each other in nine years when Rebecca believed her father was killed. Adding more intrigue to the proceedings is Piper Perabo as Rebecca’s boss Juno, in charge of the private covert organization which David helped found. Revealing its secrets slowly, the first half of the “Pilot” follows David attempt to arrange a meeting following Rebecca’s successful hit and, when that fails, the remainder of the episode involves him setting up a new meeting that unfortunately puts his anonymity at stake.

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