Who is behind Joe’s kidnapping? ‘Lioness’ Season 3 Episode 6 ending explained as brutal threat emerges
The latest ‘Lioness’ Season 3 Episode 6, titled “Sugar Land,” finally revealed who kidnapped Joe (played by Zoe Saldaña). However, her team is still unable to pinpoint her exact location, as the kidnappers have been moving her to different locations. The episode took an unexpected turn when Operation Treasure led to 37 arrests. Witnessing such drastic changes, Joe and her team were under the impression that whoever attacked her at her home previously was also among these individuals. That’s why she told her daughters they would return home. However, she was unaware she would be kidnapped soon after that. That was one of the moments from the flashback; in the flash-forward, which is now present, Kyle McManus (played by Thad Luckinbill), along with Joe’s team and her bosses, has been trying to find Joe.
It had already been 6 days since Joe was kidnapped. Kyle somehow manages to find Ukrainian double agent Oleksandra Balakin (played by Elizaveta Neretin). Since she revealed critical information and shared it with Joe’s team, she was granted witness protection. According to Kyle, she might have valuable intelligence, which is why he tracked her down while she lived under a different identity. After learning about Joe’s kidnapping, Oleksandra shared a potential theory about who might have taken Joe and where she might be kept. According to Oleksandra, Iran might be behind Joe’s kidnapping. “The greater success her operation had, the more motivated Iran would be to act against her.” She added, “Iran’s foreign policy is revenge and perception of strength. If you burn Iran bad enough, Iran is gonna want to burn back.” Based on her theory, Joe’s boss, Kaitlyn Meade (played by Nicole Kidman), tasked her team with going to various locations.
One team, including Tex (played by Jonah Wharton) and Randy (Austin Hebert), went to Texas, hoping to find Joe before she transferred via international airspace. The two arrived at a Russian safe house, 1117 Hudson. Because the place seemed as if no one was there from the outside, the two radioed Army Commander Amber Whalen (played by Dawn Olivieri) and asked permission to check out the place. But since they had many safe houses to check, and this one seemed particularly empty, the commander told them to visit the remaining houses and then work their way back to check each one thoroughly. “We’d rather work ‘em over one by one, know they’re clean before we move on,” said Tex. But the commander disagreed. To viewers' surprise, it was the house where Joe was held.
The episode ended with an individual, Babat (played by Kamyar Jahan), an Iranian operative, threatening Joe about what would happen to her. “I’m here to take you to your death.” Later, Joe also noticed him ordering his men in Farsi. Things turned intense when he cut off Joe’s toe after she seemed unbroken and insulted him. Soon, Babat and his team got ready to move Joe while her team was combing the area.
