Last night’s Undercovers gave some more insight into the separate pasts that both Samantha and Steven are trying to keep in the dark. We also get Shaw discussing the state of the Blooms’ reinstatement back into the field with the elusive Kevin. Oh, and there was another CIA device to retrieve.
Dublin
A man named Sean walks down the rainy streets of Dublin from the cops. He calls a friend named Brian to inform him to pick up a package that they both need to get to some investors. It is clear that Sean knows he’s going to jail.
Los Angeles, California
Steven and Sam are shocked to find Lizzy in the chef kitchen bright and early in the morning. Sam feels that her sister is taking her job seriously. Steven thinks Lizzy just wants some money, or a raise, which he knows for a fact Sam will break down and give her. Meanwhile, Shaw talks with the mysterious Kevin about the Blooms possibly finding out about the real reason behind them being reinstated into the CIA. Kevin balks at Shaw’s suggestion to control their discovery and to get them on the agency’s side. Kevin gives a firm no, which Shaw obliges. I’m intrigued.
Shaw later meets the Blooms to fill them in on their next assignment, which involves Sean Cullen, the guy from Dublin. Seems that Sean was in fact put in prison, and the Blooms must go interrogate him to find out where he hid an important CIA hard drive. The hard drive contains locations of CIA Black Sites, top secret agency detention centers that hold terrorists, and needs to be retrieved immediately. If only it would be that easy!
Before they leave, Sam gets stopped by Lizzy to ask for some money to take a culinary class. Sam is shocked at how right Steven was, but still loans her sister the $700 dollars on the condition that Steven never finds out. But this is Steven, who can smell the exchange a mile away.
Dublin
While in prison, Sean Cullen takes some narcotic that was stuffed in a teddy bear to fake a seizure and escapes. The Blooms get there under the disguise of Irish agents. They find Leo there under the same disguise, but as the “Chief Inspector” to the Blooms’ “Junior Inspectors.” After some wit and banter, the trio discovers the powder Sean used and has Hoyt trace it. The trio finds out that the bear came in the mail and that Sean belongs to a gang called the Black Hand Brigade, which consists of former IRA agents.
While Hoyt paints a fake Black Hand Brigade tattoo on Steven, Sean Cullen gets a new look. Meanwhile Leo takes time out to ask Sam if Steven knew about her real reasoning for quitting the CIA. She says no and would like it to stay that way. These two just have secrets galore it seems!
Leo and Hoyt decide to check out Sean Cullen’s ex-wife named Fiona, while Steven and Sam infiltrate a bar housing IRA criminals. While talking with Fiona Leo and Hoyt discover that the bear found in Sean’s cell is from Fiona’s shop. Leo decides to get more info out of Fiona by wooing her and shooing Hoyt away to get started.
At the bar, Steven and Sam act as a couple of badasses and demands to talk to Sean. The bartender sends Steven to the head of the Black Hand Brigade, who quickly sniffs out that Steven is a fraud. After kicking the Head BHB’s goons’ asses, Steven demands info on Sean Cullen. The Head reveals that if he knew where Cullen was, the guy would be dead right now since he’s made enemies out of just about everyone in the Irish crime underworld. The Head does drop a name: Brian Murphy. Elsewhere, Murphy’s wife, Maria, is abducted by Cullen after leaving a tutoring session.
The Blooms have Hoyt check the name Brian Murphy and debate Steven’s self-claim of being a “human lie detector” as well as how he still knows Lizzy wants money from Sam. Too bad his ability can’t pick up Sam’s reaction to the Lizzy situation. Meanwhile, Leo gets info out of Fiona by bedding her. She reveals that her marriage with Cullen didn’t last due to her ex-husband’s partnership with Brian Murphy, but that little intel isn’t worth tracing since she has no ties with Cullen anymore whatsoever.
The Blooms and Hoyt find Brian Murphy’s name matches connections with Sean Cullen and the trio trace Murphy’s address, which Leo has already beat them to. After some sparring words about Leo’s sex as a weapon skill and Steven’s human lie detector spiel, Hoyt discovers that Murphy left behind a disposable phone package and uses it to tap his next call and trace his location. When the call is made, Cullen gives a rendezvous point for Murphy to meet him at. The Blooms, Leo, and Hoyt make their way there to intercept them.
When Murphy arrives he comes strapped, which is a good thing since Cullen has a gun pointed at him as well. Cullen ups the stakes when he reveals Maria and threatens to kill her if Murphy doesn’t comply in dropping his gun and turning over the safety deposit key to the hard drive. After Murphy hands over the key, Cullen lets Maria go free, but Maria turns on her husband and kills in him in cold blood. Now, that’s messed up!
After the Blooms and crew find Murphy dead, they try figure out Cullen’s next move. After Leo tells them to run Cullen’s alias, George Best, into the systems, they discover that Maria and Cullen are making their way to London. Great, I love London!
London, England
Team Hoyt and Leo make their way to Cullen’s hotel, but they bicker over who’s going to woo the hotel clerk the best. When Hoyt wins out, not only does he get rejected, but he manages to successfully extract the entire hotel registry through his cell phone. His secret? “Reverse rejection.” Ha!
While the Blooms and crew set up shop in the room above Cullen’s, Maria is being schooled by Cullen on making the exchange with the buyer of the hard drive. He clearly tells her to text him a blank message when its safe to make the exchange. Meanwhile, Leo and Sam discuss marriage, which prompts Leo to point out that Sam is hiding behind the CIA’s policy of not disclosing past cases with other agents. Sam looks perturbed at this. Something is most definitely up.
Steven and Hoyt watch surveillance of Maria receiving a package. Thinking it’s the money drop, Leo bolts out the room to intercept the exchange. Sam and Steven follow him to Maria’s room where they discover that the package is really an outfit to wear to a symphony later that night. Steven quickly deduces that the symphony is the drop off point. While interrogating Maria, they ask her what was the text supposed to say. She says “Beatrice.” Liar. Sam asks Maria her dress size, which means Sam is going in undercover.
Later that night, Hoyt introduces Steven to some spy gadgets: a pen sized tranquilizer gun and a mini concussive grenade. When
Sam sits down at the symphony, she is shocked to see Steven enters on the stage as one of the musicians, a timpanist. This man is a jack of all trades!
While Leo holds court on the ground floor, the buyer shows up to make the exchange with Sam, who is posing as Maria. The only problem is that Cullen is nowhere to be found. When Sam sends the text with “Beatrice” in it, Cullen, who is in the parking garage, knows something is up. He sends Sam a text, which says “A-40.” Hoyt and Leo think A-4o means a seat in the audience, but it’s actually the garage parking number. The buyer has gotten impatient and has pulled out a gun on Sam, forcing her to take him to Cullen. Steven takes out the buyer with his tranq gun, which frees Sam to run after Leo to catch Cullen.
Leo is captured by Cullen and gets in the middle of a standoff between Sam and Cullen. Sam declares that she will not negotiate with terrorists, which is CIA policy, meaning that Leo is toast. Uh-oh…
Steven places the mini concussive grenade in the briefcase with the money. When he gets to the standoff, Steven gives Cullen the briefcase despite Sam’s protests. Leo agrees, but Steven assures him that he knows what he’s doing. Cullen takes Leo as collateral, but warns the agent that he will kill him once they are in safe distance. Leo begins to notice the briefcase and his mind finally starts to work against his panic. At almost the last minute, Leo lunges from Cullen’s car and runs like mad. Steven detonates the bomb, stopping Cullen and possibly blowing one of Leo’s eardrums in the process.
Los Angeles. California
Again, Shaw debriefs the Blooms on their accomplished mission, but asks Samantha if she knew Steven had the bomb in the briefcase, or was she covering for husband’s breach of protocol. After Samantha lies, Steven boasts about how their communication is “second nature” and that they know everything about each other just by one look. That’s the most laughable thing in the entire hour.
In the kitchen, Steven stops Lizzy and ‘attempts’ to pay her for dog and housesitting. Lizzy declines the money, confirming Steven’s suspicions. Later that night when Steven talks to Sam about Lizzy, she admits to loaning the money, but she has something else on her mind: their respective pasts. When Sam tries to reveal hers, Steven declares that he doesn’t want her to. Sam asks if this is because Steven has something to hide in his past, he swears that’s not the case.
But the look on his face as they hug tells a whole different story. Too bad we probably won’t ever get to know what those secrets may be…
I am still holding out hope for this show and in NBC to keep it on. Undercovers has the potential to be something great. I personally think it is great, but I don’t decide what stays and goes in the world of television. While a huge part of me is begging for the show to continue, I am (unfortunately) preparing myself for the worst.
Hopefully, I will see you next week. If not, then it’s been a great short ride. Let’s hope that it’s the former…
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