The Endgame unleashes its second episode this week and “Fairytale Wedding” was anything but a fairytale. As Val continues to try to understand Elena’s plot, things heat up at one of the banks she has seized and secrets come to the surface. Let’s dive in!
Let the Games Begin | The episode begins with a flashback to Elena (Morena Baccarin) and Sergey (Costa Ronin) on their wedding day, with Sergey’s mother giving Elena a family heirloom- right before the church where the wedding is taking place is blown up, killing the mother. Present day, and one of the robbers in the second bank is downloading a video file onto a flash drive, as a man named Jensen is kidnapped by Elena’s men. A live video of Jensen strapped to a bomb ends up in the interrogation room feed as Elena proudly tells one of the interrogators, Joan Bradbury, (Jenna Stern) that she has her son captive.
After Flowers (Jordan Johnson-Hinds) suggests to Val (Ryan Michelle Bathe) that she ask Owen (Kamal Bolden) if he has anything to do with Elena, he finds the car seen on the security footage of Jensen’s abduction parked outside a cemetery- the same cemetery where Val’s mother was buried. They search the crematorium and find Jensen tied up in the basement and need a code to deactivate the bomb. After several failed attempts, Val types in the name Isaac Bigby, which undoes the bomb vest seconds before it explodes out of harm’s way. Val later tells Flowers that Isaac Bigby was the man who murdered her mother, but escaped prosecution and died years later.
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Pain and Loss | Doak (Noah Bean) spots the manager of one of the banks being held hostage having a cardiac arrest and plots to find a way to help him. Bradbury confesses to Val that she pulled some strings to get Jensen out of jail for a drug arrest, but denies any wrongdoing besides that. Val once again interrogates Elena and demands to know how Owen is involved in her plot, but Elena fires back by telling her that Bigby may not be dead or missing.
Flowers finds a trunk full of Elena’s clothes stashed in the trunk of Val’s squad car, just as Doak manages to get the sick manager out of the bank as well as get a voice sample of the bank robber to identify. The EMT checking on the manager removes a patch on his arm planted by the robber that immediately cures his ailment and also removes the stolen flash drive from underneath his boot. Val catches the EMT and arrests her and Doak cracks open the flash drive to see the video.
In a Bind | Val brings the video to her superior Rogelio Real (Mark D. Espinoza) and it reveals that Bradbury has been working with a drug cartel to steal millions from their operation and that the cartel framed Jensen for drug use to get her to negotiate. Bradbury insists that she can’t be arrested because it would look bad for the FBI if more than one agent was found guilty of capital crimes, but Real arrests her regardless.
Flowers finds a photograph in Elena’s trunk of her, Sergey, and Owen meeting at a restaurant. Obviously, Elena won’t tell Val jack about that but insists to Val that she’s working a bigger angle. Val finally goes to see Owen in prison and demands answers, but he simply hands her a clover plucked from the ground and walks away. He sees Sergey afterward and tells him that he told Val nothing. Sergey then retreats to his cell and texts something on a cell phone that translates to Morse Code on one of the computers outside Elena’s cell, which she laughs at.
The Endgame airs Mondays at 10pm on NBC.
