Hey! An episode with backstory! A mysterious overboss! And another "device!" Maybe, just maybe, we're getting themes here, viewers. Let's begin.
We open with a gentleman on the streets of Dublin contacting his friend to pick up a mysterious package. It's clear this guy's going to jail. Meanwhile, in LA, Steven and Sam find Lizzy in the kitchen all bright and chipper, which makes Steven suspicious. Shaw, meanwhile, converses with the mysterious Kevin, who ominously drops hints and warnings about the REAL reason for the Blooms' reactivation. Shaw wants to tell them the truth, which Kevin vetoes. Shaw meets with the Blooms about their next assignment, which involves breaking our friend in Dublin out of prison in order to figure out where he hid a valuable CIA hard drive. Uh, Ok. Wasn't this last week's episode?
Lizzy corners Sam and asks for some money for a culinary class; Steven was right, but Lizzy gets the cash anyway. Over in Dublin, our imprisoned friend takes a drug from inside a teddy bear that induces a seizure...which leads to his escape. The Blooms arrive, and are undercover as Irish agents (...Black Irish?), and Leo's with them under the same pretense. After a bunch of cutesy dialogue, the drug the escapee used is uncovered and Hoyt's able to trace it to a gang called the Black Hand Brigade, which is a bunch of former IRA members. Hoyt creates a fake BHB tattoo on Steven, and Leo drops Sam a hint about the REAL reason she quit the CIA, and if Steven knows. She says "nope," and wants to keep it that way. Secrets, secrets are no fun, people.
Leo and Hoyt drop in on the escapee's ex-wife, and Steven and Sam swing by an IRA bar. The ex-wife apparently sent the bear, so Leo starts seducing her and tells Hoyt to beat it. Rowr. Steven and Sam quickly find the head of the BHB, who pegs Steven for a fake. There's some butt-kicking, and the head BHB'er reveals that if they could find their jailbird friend, he'd be dead by now. Meanwhile, we cut to said jailbird, who's trying to track down his friend from the cold open, but kidnaps his wife instead. Uh, Okay.
Leo sleeps with the ex-wife, which doesn't really provide much intel. The Blooms and Hoyt track the jailbird to his friend, which Leo's already gotten to. Hoyt finds a disposable cell phone and taps it. It leads them to both Jailbird and Friend. Jailbird reveals he's got Friend's wife captured. Friend turns over the key to the safe deposit box that holds the drive, and Jailbird let's Friend's wife go...only to have her SHOOT FRIEND DEAD. Screwy.
The Blooms find Dead Guy. Hoyt points them to London, and everyone's off! Hoyt susses out where Jailbird and Wife are staying, and the crew gets a hotel room above them. Steven and Hoyt watch Wife receive a package, and Leo races after her to intercept. But, the package is just an outfit to wear to the symphony that night. Uh, Okay. Again. The symphony's the drop off point, and Sam is going to be going in Wife's place.
Hoyt shows off some spy gadgets to Steven, including a tiny grenade and a tranq gun that looks like a pen. Awww. Sam takes her seat at the symphony, and is surprised to see Steven there...behind a set of tympani drums! So talented.
Then, the episode pretty much ends like the last three. There's a heated exchange, Sam's cover is blown, there's gunfire in a parking garage, the drive is recovered and the bad guys are vanquished. Oh, there's also a car bomb and the fun gadgets get used.
Back in LA, Shaw chats up the Blooms on their mission, and Steven mentions that the pair are successful because they know everything about each other via just a single look. This is both BS and the most unintentionally funny moment of the episode.
The episode ends with Sam and Steven having an exchange about their secrets; when Sam tries to come clean, Steven says he doesn't want to know. Sam asks if it's because he's got a skeleton or three in his closet, which he ensures her isn't the case. But the look on his face says otherwise...and we're done.
I want to know what's really going on here, friends. Unfortunately, ratings are dropping, and we may never know exactly how good and intricate this show can get. What do you think? Are you still watching? Sound off! Hopefully, see you in seven.
