With one episode to go, there’s still a decent bit of plot left to cover. For one, there’s an incredibly lethal chemical weapon in the hands of some seedy characters intent on killing as many people as they can. Even if our heroes manage to stop them, there are lots of other loose ends.
Jacob, a businessman who treats people as pawns and sells dangerous information to the highest bidder, is still out there with Peter in his pocket. Peter still doesn’t know about his preexisting connection to Catherine, who investigated his father. And we’re all dying to know whether Rose will go back to California.
But “Cultural Exchange” does begin the work of wrapping up this season, especially when it comes to the Iranian characters. Early in the episode, Javad goes full mask-off villain, threatening to get the ambassador in trouble with the foreign minister after he let Noor steal the list of dissidents. First, his priority is to track down Noor and stop her.
By the time he catches up with her at the Hagan rally outside the U.N., though, she’s already been in and out, and the French delegation has the list.
Javad can’t keep track of Noor for very long, and he’s forced to return to the mission. And in the time he was gone, Abbas has already made moves against him, arranging for his impeachment by framing him as Noor’s coconspirator. From the outside, it seems believable; there’s footage of Javad flirting with Noor (a.
k.a. “information gathering”), and Javad’s ch.
