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Legends: Episode 4 Review, Betrayal

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Tonight’s episode wraps up the VX gas storyline, with just a moment or two of the “who is Martin Odum” plot. More than any other episode so far, this was a straight action hour, without the mystery of Martin’s identity included, but this storyline really needed to be finished! While we shouldn’t expect a new legend every week, three weeks may have been too long for Dante Auerbach. The hook for this show is that Martin is having flashes of uncertainty; someone knows more about his real identity than he may at this point, and has now killed two people (the hooded man and Bobby, the DCO tech) to keep the secret. This episode only briefly touched on the murder of the hooded man – and only through Tony Rice’s investigation. Next week’s teaser promises more in the identity storyline – I hope so! While the legend and crisis plots are interesting, if that’s all there is to this show, it becomes your standard spy offering.

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“Dante” buys what he thinks are canisters of VX gas. At the exchange, the FBI comes in and arrests The Colonel; Martin grabs Ana and pulls her into his car, when he tells her that she too is under arrest. The “nerve gas” turns out to be hairspray, meaning that the real VX is still unfound. Ana refuses to cooperate; The Colonel tells Crystal that he wants to be put on a plane in exchange for calling off an impending VX attack. Of course, she refuses -and a bag is left on a city bus that sprays the gas and kills all aboard.

Tony Rice, still investigating Martin’s role in the homeless hoodie man’s death, finds the man’s friends on the street. One man tells Rice that he saw a woman come up to the man on the subway platform and stab him, then saw Martin run up. Not what Tony was expecting!

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Ana had told Martin that The Colonel had adopted her out of a Chechen orphanage, but once in custody, Martin reveals to Ana that it was The Colonel who had actually killed her mother and made her an orphan. Martin and Crystal get Ana’s reluctant cooperation in locating the VX gas in exchange for a light sentence. Nelson proposes that they give in to The Colonel’s demands to be released, and The Colonel and Ana are taken out of the prison, but on their way to what they think will be a plane taking them to Havana, the convoy is attacked, several FBI members are “killed,” and Martin, still in the Dante Auerbach legend, arrives in a helicopter to pick them up. He tells them that they picked the wrong man to doublecross. After he beats the crap out of The Colonel, he tells him to call off the attacks and that he wants the gas. The Colonel makes the call, but Martin isn’t done – he stabs The Colonel through the hand. Martin is decompensating, unable to control his angry impulses. Of course, The Colonel did force him to kill a man with the gas.

Crystal tries to tell Martin that he’s doing a good job; he shrugs off her “managing” and tells her that people died today because he misread the situation. They put Ana in with the Colonel, who finally admits that he had killed her mother, but adopted her as a way of atoning for his sins. She convinces him to give the gas to Dante; they are taken to a bank where the gas is stored in a safe deposit box. Martin insists on being the one to open the vault, and a smoke bomb explodes when he does, giving The Colonel time to grab the keys, open the box below, and try to run out with the gas. While “Mexican standoff” isn’t completely appropriate here, that’s where they end up, but with Ana aiming at the Colonel, who she then shoots. When she won’t lower her gun, Crystal kills her. And Martin has a quick disoriented flash…

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I’m happy to see that Crystal has kept her clothes on in the last two episodes. I was concerned that she was only around for her sex appeal; can’t say I really care for her character much, as her main facial expression seems to include eye rolls at Martin’s activities; but not every episode should have her as a stripper or otherwise using sex as a weapon. Maggie’s role was minimal tonight, which meant that we didn’t have to be afraid of her hairstyle for very long… oops, I mean that we weren’t subjected to more unrealistically fast use of digital technology.

This is completely Sean Bean’s show. None of the supporting players really comes close to his dynamic portrayal of the tortured agent. Morris Chestnut as Tony Rice is interesting, and provides some much-needed energy to the rest of the cast, but his investigation – an FBI transportation agent becoming obsessed with a much higher ranking and important undercover agent – feels like a train heading right to unemployment. But I’m still interested – who, really, is Martin Odum? Now I need to know.

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