TV Review: Undercovers - "Jailbreak"

This week's target for our Undercovers Agents Bloom (Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Bodjoe) is travelling to Ireland and England to recover a CIA hardrive in danger of falling into enemy hands.

Before talking about the mission itself, let's focus at Sam's sister, Lizzy. As in every episode, we can see the action moving to the catering company that Sam and Steven own as part of their cover. There, the couple find Lizzy working hard at 7 a.m. which seems really suspicious for Steven. We know that Lizzy is a bit of a troublemaker and always has second intentions. Steven has the right to be suspicious and he even has the guts to joke about Lizzy's past alcoholism in order to understand why she's working in the business that early in the morning. Steven, don't be bad! There's a reason she's there; she needs money for her cooking classes! Do you believe that? I don't! Steven doesn't help her, and warns Sam that Lizzy is going hit her up for money. In the end, Sam, always the very nice and supporting sister, gives $700 to Lizzy with the promise to pay them back soon.

So are we getting a bit of mystery in this week's episode? The answer is yes but just a little! We see Agent Shaw (Gerald McRaney) speaking on the phone with an unidentified male about the Blooms and the need to be careful or else they will find out the true reason of their reactivation. Nice way of teasing us but we want to know what's behind!! Please, try to be more specific!

Another hint is dropped during the mission when Leo (Carter MacIntyre) asks Sam why she hasn't told Steven her true reason for leaving the agency five years earlier. So, does this mean that Leo knows the real reason? Does that reason involve him? Still, we have to thank Leo because at least, we got to know something new about the Blooms. It turns out Sam and Steven made a pact about not talking about their past. Whoa!  

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Olga Parera is a graduate student in English and in Translation & Interpretation at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She's currently working on her MA on Audiovisual Translation. She enjoys cinema, music, literature, writing, TV, languages, fashion and photography. …

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  • 1 - Grace

    Oct 15, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    I'd like to see more of GERALD MCRANEY in each episode!

  • 2 - Olga

    Oct 16, 2010 at 12:34 am

    Hey Grace!
    I think that if the show deepens on why Agents Bloom were reactivated, his presence on-screen will increase

  • 3 - Ray

    Aug 01, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    nothing like Ireland, totally stupid, no chance a big black guy can get a tattoo and walk into and irish bar and make ppl beliieve he is in the IRA

  • 4 - Keith

    Aug 02, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Very weak accents and idont know were guard cars have an f licence plate.and finally since when do prison guards have shotguns . very poor

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