A USAF drone pilot Vincent goes to drastic lengths to deal with the guilt that goes with his job, while Hanin's plans to take her children and run hit a dangerous roadblock.
Tropes
- Artistic License – Military: When Victor blows away Yazid when he tries to rape Hanin, his supervisor tells another serviceman to get an MP. This being the Air Force, he'd need the Security Forces.
- Hidden Badass: Sandrine calls Jack a "wolf disguised as a sheep."
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Hanin insists that God will protect her and her daughters, as long as they keep moving. Later on, Victor, guilt-ridden from the numerous people he has killed as a drone operator, witnesses Yazid attempting to rape Hanin, and decides to kill him despite orders not to engage. Hanin dusts herself off, gathers her daughters, and reiterates her previous statement that God would protect them. Victor, on the verge of being arrested for his actions, is given a reprieve as his commander receives another phone call, implied to be the kill order for Yazid. Divine intervention, or just Victor's atypically good luck?
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Ali is instructed to kill the family he's staying with, but can't bring himself to do it so he defies orders and leaves them alive. Because of this, Jack hears the son complaining about a video game Ali left in the machine, which leads to his uncovering how Ali and Sulemain are communicating.
- Plot Parallel: The A plot has Ali refrain from killing against orders, while the B plot has Victor blow up Yazid against orders. Both act out of mercy; Ali for the family who are hiding him, Victor for Hanin.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Victor defies orders and shoots Yazid because he's about to rape Hanin. His co-pilot is firmly on his side, expressing outrage when they're expected to just sit back and let it happen.
- Shout-Out: The couple Victor meets at a casino call themselves Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois.
- Spotting the Thread: When the house where Ali hid is being searched, Jack hears the child and his friend complaining about the game that's in the console, which neither of them seem to have put in. Investigating, he realises the game's forum is how Sulemain and Ali are communicating, which leads to the revelation that Ali is en route to meet someone from the terror cell.
- Springtime for Hitler: Victor spends much of his subplot in episode 3 trying to get rid of the 104 dollars he earned through dark bets as to who could score a kill in his group before their shift was up (in single increments per kill. Do the math). Trying to gamble it away doesn't work, as he inexplicably manages to win over $39,000 at roulette. When it looks like he's about to be robbed by a high-roller couple who are into cuckoldry, they just leave him with his blood money after they're done fulfilling their fetish. Ultimately, he makes peace with his many impersonal murders when he uses the drone to hit Yazid, accepting his new dollar with grace.
