Flashforward 13 (spoilers)

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So, Aaron was a jailbird for 30 months. The arc leading to his campaign against James Erskin and Jericho is mostly well done: his conversation with Mike in the truck is brilliantly menacing. But there are a couple of weak points, to my mind. The first is the ease with which Mike tricks him into revealing Tracy’s location. The second is that he needed to: surely if Jericho can send someone to dupe Aaron, they could keep an eye on his house and therefore find Tracy without needing any trickery in the first place.

Finally the very episodic structure of the whole series has somewhat betrayed this development in Aaron’s character. Instead of drawing out his prison past and development from uncontrolled, ineffectual rage to tightly focused infiltration and violence, it’s all dropped on his within the space of a single hour.

Nice bit of lighting in Aaron Stark’s kitchen, though.

I was thinking right at the beginning that Noh ought to have personally melted down Benford’s gun, so really it wasn’t all that surprising that it turned up missing by the end of the episode.

Marshall Vogel (new guy on the team) is as bent an arrow as the rest of them. I suppose being in the (televisual l-) CIA will do that, but it appears to have scrambled his metaphors as well - “Be warned, we will be off the reservations, so if things go sideways, there’s no cavalry”.