“The question is, would she still be alive if we hadn’t tried to save her?” Joe and Bobby are standing in the aftermath of their child rescue side mission gone awry. The dust hasn’t even settled on the scene yet, and they’ve already figured out the whole cover story. Nothing left to do now but quietly acknowledge the violent futility of your job and get along with the next leg of it. Fire and forward momentum. Remove the byzantine build-up of psyops and special ops and clandestine geopolitical status-quo-keeping, and that’s all that’s left for Joe and the Lioness crew. And anyone else who, by bad luck or circumstance or both, ends up a servant of the gray world.
Back in Dallas, The Carrillo mansion is full of reluctant participants in a special op still dangerously in flux. Some of them don’t know it yet, but…
