Emma’s return from the dead forces Peter and Cohen to trust only each other as they try to unravel just how personal this conspiracy is in this week’s Dig.
Now I’ll admit, I kind of suspected all along that Emma wasn’t really dead. Her being alive answers as many questions as it does pose new ones. Not knowing what to do next but knowing that he can’t leave Jerusalem, Peter takes Emma and runs to Cohen’s place. It turns out Emma was paid to get Peter’s attention specifically, so whatever is going on, Peter unknowingly has a very personal connection to it. After finding the place where Emma was being held and escaped from, Cohen learns that the man who confessed to Yussef Khalid’s murder has committed suicide, which means Peter was right about everything (if the conspiracy wasn’t enough to churn Cohen’s stomach, Peter being right about something should).
Lynn is on the warpath, still not understanding that this is a conspiracy. And she’s still trusting the wrong people, specifically a certain U.S Ambassador who has now been tasked with killing Peter. Seriously, Lynn’s supposed to be in charge, and she still can’t see she’s being played like a fiddle? Lynn becomes so desperate that she actually calls Peter’s wife for help tracking him down. Wifey doesn’t pull any punches calling Lynn out on her affair with Peter, but still doesn’t want to see her husband in danger, so she makes the call. Peter finally agrees to meet with Lynn, only because he really has no other choice at this point. Peter ends up walking into a trap, only to be saved by a stranger who disappears into the night.
In the meantime armed with the knowledge that the key Peter found last week is to a safety deposit box, Cohen goes to claim the contents and finds a video cassette (yes, they still exist). The tape is a record by an archaeologist dating back 35 years documenting that the Order of Moriah is in fact a very real and dangerous organization. The archaeologist, Donaldson, was one of three that were part of a dig, and apparently, the team found something that wasn’t supposed to be found. With Donaldson visibly dead, and the second member, Hargrove, now a traitor, Peter and Cohen’s only lead is to find the third archaeologist. And they better hurry up, because it looks like the bad guys are still two steps ahead of them.
Debbie is determined to get Charlie back, but refuses to give up Josh without a fight. She comes up with a plan to come armed to a meet with Billingham, and then all of them will escape to California. I’m not going to lie, I thought this plan would blow up in Debbie’s face, but she’s actually very clever. Halfway through the exchange, Josh reveals that his body is wired with explosives, and Debbie’s plan succeeds. It only temporarily succeeds, as Billingham’s cronies do come after them guns blazing, killing Charlie and successfully taking back Josh. With nothing left to lose, Debbie pawns her ring in exchange for a heavy arsenal to take Josh back. If there is any bright spot to any of this, I guess I would say that it is Josh’s personality. In the beginning, he was evil Josh 2.0, but under Debbie’s guidance, he got to see how big the world could be and that he could actually be a normal little boy. So he’s not evil, he’s not even brainwashed; he’s just a normal confused pre-adolescent, albeit one that’s confused about religious matters which haven’t been resolved in thousands of years.
Is it just me, or did it seem like the storyline moved a lot faster this week without Avram’s part?
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