'NCIS' Season 17 introduced us to Sahar's psychopathic terrorist streak and it poses the biggest threat
This article contains spoilers for Season 17, Episode 2.
NCIS' Season 17 Episode 2 called, 'Into The Light,' was supposed to be tricky. The official synopsis had already warned us a week in advance that "With their lives in danger, Gibbs and Ziva’s rogue investigation takes an unexpected turn when a possible terrorist plot is revealed.” But things really got tricky and all kinds of messed up in the second episode this season, thanks to one Sahar, whose mysterious motives managed to leave us shaken because she looks like a borderline psychopath.
After much convincing from Gibbs, Ziva finally decided to not kill Sahar, whom they had cornered by the end of the last episode. Instead, they decided to turn Sahar to the authorities, with Ziva's only condition being that she gets reunited with her family: Tony, and their daughter, Tali. But of course, Sahar had games to play, and she toyed with them, by threatening that if she dies, a senator will die too, but not revealing which senator. It is however during this interrogation that Sahar's backstory is explored, and she is established as a person who was more than her captors had given her credit for.
As they tried interrogating and attempted to break her, Sahar's staunch determination of not spilling a single thing led them to find out that she was close to taking over at Hamas - the Palestinian Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist militant organization. Given that women are still not allowed a fair chance at rising to power in the Middle East, Sahar must have really struggled her way through the bias and stigma - making her all the more dangerous than they had assumed previously.
It was only after America's involvement that Sahar's throne was toppled and that caused her to resort to being a POW in Syria. The torture and treatment she underwent there nearly got her killed, and that could explain her thirst for revenge now. And she does that by orchestrating a team of suicide bombers into a meeting with around 30 senators present. Of course, our unit is able to get things under control by ordering a lockdown and even killing off a bomber right before he detonated. But the way Sahar maintained her stance throughout - almost as if she is enjoying the chaos and subsequent massacre to come, made her all the more terrifying in today's episode.
NCIS season 17 air on Tuesdays at 8pm/9 c only on CBS.