Of partnership and teamwork
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shallownessCountdown - 1.6 A Needle or a Bullet
The Belarussian head of the consulate came to Volchek and told him to knock it off and return to Belarussia, where things could be smoothed over for him. I thought the fact that he’d come himself made him look weak, Volchek said he wanted revenge. The taskforce would later wonder why the consulate head hadn’t reported the American incursion back home. After getting details of the consulate head’s routine (bad habit), Volchek used the intel to root out a rat among his henchmen. Obviously, it wasn’t the right hand man who’s been along for many years now.
As for the taskforce, they were following up the Gallagher clue. (I was making weak Liam and Noel jokes.) Shepherd found them a man named Gallagher who’d been a cellmate of the deceased Timur one time. His place was empty of everything but traps - his neighbour and AA sponsor said he’d got involved with a Doomsday cult. This led to this epsiode’s big action scene as Meacham volunteered to go first into the trailer he was holed up in, then they were all blindsided when the truck it was attached to started moving as Gallagher bolted. Meacham went all action hero, clambering onto the roof of the trailer, jumping on the truck and getting into a fight, the others stopped the still moving truck with a pincer movement with their vehicles.
In the interview room, Meacham and Oliviera pretended to be, like, Maga anti-deep-state types, despite being cops, to get in with Gallagher and then learned he knew nothing about the Belarussians. Blythe tended to agree after trying different methods. Bell (still not grasping he’s not the main character) lashed out about whether Meacham really had seen the name Gallagher. Blythe reprimanded him privately after, and urged the team to keep digging.
In the midst of all this – interviewing a hopeless parole officer, showing off his marksmanship skills – Meacham had had to accept that he and Oliviera were partners now. Inevitably, she noticed that things were very off with him, and accused him of being on drugs. She even opened up about how she’d briefly got addicted to heroin (I think), got clean, but still felt the call. He gave her a half-truth, claiming he had started getting migraines. She accepted this enough to get him some painkillers.
We had one shot too many of the logo ‘Gallagher’ on the trucks that, all unknowingly, were delivering something bad (possibly the nuclear material) to Volchek’s warehouse of nefarious doings (just after he’d shot dead the henchman who’d been informing on him to the consulate head.) The show really doesn’t think much of its viewers intelligence.
The Belarussian head of the consulate came to Volchek and told him to knock it off and return to Belarussia, where things could be smoothed over for him. I thought the fact that he’d come himself made him look weak, Volchek said he wanted revenge. The taskforce would later wonder why the consulate head hadn’t reported the American incursion back home. After getting details of the consulate head’s routine (bad habit), Volchek used the intel to root out a rat among his henchmen. Obviously, it wasn’t the right hand man who’s been along for many years now.
As for the taskforce, they were following up the Gallagher clue. (I was making weak Liam and Noel jokes.) Shepherd found them a man named Gallagher who’d been a cellmate of the deceased Timur one time. His place was empty of everything but traps - his neighbour and AA sponsor said he’d got involved with a Doomsday cult. This led to this epsiode’s big action scene as Meacham volunteered to go first into the trailer he was holed up in, then they were all blindsided when the truck it was attached to started moving as Gallagher bolted. Meacham went all action hero, clambering onto the roof of the trailer, jumping on the truck and getting into a fight, the others stopped the still moving truck with a pincer movement with their vehicles.
In the interview room, Meacham and Oliviera pretended to be, like, Maga anti-deep-state types, despite being cops, to get in with Gallagher and then learned he knew nothing about the Belarussians. Blythe tended to agree after trying different methods. Bell (still not grasping he’s not the main character) lashed out about whether Meacham really had seen the name Gallagher. Blythe reprimanded him privately after, and urged the team to keep digging.
In the midst of all this – interviewing a hopeless parole officer, showing off his marksmanship skills – Meacham had had to accept that he and Oliviera were partners now. Inevitably, she noticed that things were very off with him, and accused him of being on drugs. She even opened up about how she’d briefly got addicted to heroin (I think), got clean, but still felt the call. He gave her a half-truth, claiming he had started getting migraines. She accepted this enough to get him some painkillers.
We had one shot too many of the logo ‘Gallagher’ on the trucks that, all unknowingly, were delivering something bad (possibly the nuclear material) to Volchek’s warehouse of nefarious doings (just after he’d shot dead the henchman who’d been informing on him to the consulate head.) The show really doesn’t think much of its viewers intelligence.
