‘SEAL Team’ Season 3 Episode 18 Review: Can Jason and Mandy find the man they arrested and lost?
Spoilers for ‘SEAL Team’ Season 3 Episode 18 ‘Edge of Nowhere’
Leadership comes with responsibility, war comes at a cost, and beneath every hard-shell, there's a lot of pain and hurt. Titled 'Edge of Nowhere', the new episode of 'SEAL Team' gives a taste of valiance and virtue with every scene. A show that tells the horrors and honors of Navy SEALs, it only gets better, grittier and gutsier with every new episode. Danger lurks at every corner as the mission in Afghanistan takes a new turn.
Bravo Team heads to Jalalabad to search for the missing terrorist who is orchestrating violent resistance to peace negotiations in Afghanistan. They learn that the attacks are aimed at Taliban leaders who are interested in signing a peace deal and their new task is to ensure that the attacks do not go unanswered. The Taliban leader who is responsible for these attacks has gone underground and Jason has to hunt him down with his team.
Jason, Mandy and the peace talks
There is heavy gunfire and amid the warfare, there are personal battles that need to be settled and silenced. Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz) pays tribute to his old friend Jack, who died after negotiating peace terms. In the last episode, his hands were discovered after they were chopped off his body. Meanwhile, Mandy Ellis (Jessica Paré) blatantly asks Taliban Tribal Leader Akhtar Zahed if they are trying to reinstate harmony "by cutting the hands of the person who wants to sign a peace treaty with the Americans?"
Her bold and bodacious attitude works and he finally opens up about why he wasn't there, how his nephew Murad warned him about a group named Tahara. He says the "attacks are only beginning." To get to the bottom of it, Mandy teams up with Lisa Davis (Toni Trucks) to look for Murad. They get in contact with his boss, Samin, who reveals Murad didn't show up for work with two other guys some weeks back.
Where are the relationships going?
While Davis seems to be finally settling in, Ray Perry (Neil Brown Jr) spoke to her about her newfound focus and tried to give a pep talk on "finding balance." It didn't go the right way with her, and she struck back like a thunderstorm, "Nobody ever questions when you guys are all in. Now it's my turn."
Meanwhile, Sonny Quinn (AJ Buckley) works to repair his relationship with his father in Texas and meets his childhood friend, Hannah (Rachel Boston). They hold hands and he says, "There were a lot of things I should have told you back then." Is this Sonny's new claim to love? This is all he ever wanted, to be in a safety net with someone, and when it didn't work with Lisa, will Hannah help revive Sonny in every way? On the other hand, there are Jason and Mandy's heart-to-heart conversations. He asks her about Dr Issac Craig (Paul Fox). The two seem to understand each other and feel each other's pain without words.
A lesson in leadership
With Samin's lead, the Bravo Team makes a few arrests, confiscate all cellphones and get into interrogation mode. Davis hints at a major plan that runs across several countries, something like Al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, Mandy realizes that the lowly recruit, Elham Wali, whom she released, could have had a big role to play.
As Bravo Team gets into risky business, Clay Spenser finally gets a first-hand experience at leadership. After a brutal day, when he comes back to his Bravo brothers, everyone hugs him. Jason then asks him, "Got a taste of what that means? What it takes to lead?" As the episode comes to a close, Mandy calls attention to how DIA confirmed that Wali was the main man. "We may have found the head of a snake and we just let him go?" Jason says and the gritty episode ends with a major cliffhanger.
Directed by Christine Moore and written by Rashaan Dozier-Escalante & Tom Mularz, 'Edge of Nowhere' is one of the best episodes in the series. A whirlwind of emotions takes the show ahead as the plot thickens with the peace treaty in Afghanistan. Will Clay finally get into Jason's headspace and be more cooperative? Can Jason and Mandy get hold of Wali again? A number of questions circle around your head but the next episode of 'SEAL Team' may have answers to all.