Special Ops: Lioness
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Its second season ends with another bang that hits like a diabolical whimper.
All we did was change oil prices, Cruz had told Joe at theend of the season-onespecial op.
And all they end up really doing is changing cartel bosses and improving a sitting presidents re-election prospects.
No sense of victory over the forces of old and evil.
Nobody girlbosses the shit out of the war on terror likeLioness.
Pablos brother is a threat because he fostered relationships that threatened U.S. intelligence.
And inform them when enemies reach out.
Work to eliminate their influence anywhere you could find it, Kaitlyn adds.
Pablo is keen on the idea.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
A-OK when the new boss is in the pocket of the U.S.A. Easy to forget how ugly this keeping the peace can be.
Love the cold defeatedness with which Kidman delivers that line.
Makes keeping the peace sound like the pathetic code phrase it really is.
But its not the murder of a cartel boss and the implanting of another that makes Byron sick.
What makes me sick is how little will change, he replies.
If China and Iran want to fuck up U.S. borders, were gonna disrespect yours back tenfold.
Domination is the only acceptable mode of stability for the biggest gun in the West.
Cruz and Josie both survive the crash, but Josies leg makes her barely mobile.
Mission success, mission failure its all gray, baby.
