History Series / SpecialOpsLioness

* GroinAttack: A serial rapist is on the end of one after drugging and trying to rape Cruz. Joe and the team stop him before he rapes her and Joe stomps on his groin, then takes his drivers license and threatens to kill him if he says anything. They then take multiple [=DNA=] samples.

* TooDumbToLive: In "Bruises Like a Fist", three of the QRF team extract an informant who is the target of a drug cartel. After an extraction, using an EMP device that takes out two vehicles filled with bad guys and a semi that crashed into them, the remaining members in a third truck thinks it's a good idea to chase them down. A burst of fully-automatic gunfire from two rifles into their windshield sends them into a rollover crash.

* SpottingTheThread: How the last Lioness' cover gets blown when her mark spots a tattoo of a cross under her armpit while bathing. During the debrief, Joe says that the undercover claimed that she had no tattoos. The CIA Director tells her to "check every inch" of next recruit to ensure that there are no tattoos, not merely take her word for it.

* SpottingTheThread: How the last Lioness' cover gets blown when her mark spots a tattoo of a cross under her armpit while bathing. During the debrief, Joe says that the undercover claimed that she had no tattoos. The CIA Director tells her to strip search the next recruit to ensure that there are no tattoos, not merely take her word for it.

* TooDumbToLive: In "Bruises Like a Fist", three of the QRF team extract an informant who is the target of a drug cartel. After an extraction that takes out two vehicles filled with bad guys and a semi that crashed into them, the remaining members in a third truck thinks it's a good idea to chase them down. A burst of full-automatic gunfire from two rifles into their windshield send them into a rollover crash.

* SpottingTheThead: How the last Lioness' cover gets blown when her mark spots a tattoo of a cross under her armpit while bathing. During the debrief, Joe says that the undercover claimed that she had no tattoos. The CIA Director tells her to strip search the next recruit to ensure that there are no tattoos, not merely take her word for it.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Season 1 ends with Cruz successfully killing her target, the target's son-in-law-to-be and getting away alive. Joe makes it home and breaks down in her husband's arms. But, Cruz's heart is broken and quits. Aaliyah is left to pick up the pieces and may (or may not) seek revenge. The [=US=] Government's leadership laments how it likely set relations in the Middle East back 40 years. It's also strongly implied that killing the target was as much about taking out a terrorist as it was profiting from a drop in oil prices.]]

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler:After Cruz kills the target and escapes, she punches Joe in the face (twice), explains how what they did not only didn't change anything but have made things worse, gives her a TheReasonYouSuck speech, and quits.]]

* TrainingFromHell: Joe subjects Cruz to a simulated SERE training in order to learn what can ''break'' her in case her cover is blown in an actual operation with beatings, loud music blaring 24/7 and being hosed with high streams of water, followed by waterboarding. One of the interrogators pin her down from the back, [[DarkAndTroubledPast suggesting that Cruz was sexually assaulted in the past]].

** The QRF team finds out the simulated SERE op on Cruz was sanctioned by Joe in "The Beating". And they were told to take it up with her if they don't like it. It doesn't save the people who performed the op from getting a beat down by the QRF team and Cruz.

** "Wish the Fight Away" has Aaliyah and Cruz get close. Really, really close. [[spoiler:And it starts to conflict with Cruz.]]

* GroinAttack: A (likely) serial rapist is on the end of one after drugging and trying to rape Cruz. Joe and the team stop him before he rapes her and Joe stomps on his groin, then takes his drivers license and threatens to kill him if he says anything. They then take a [=DNA=] sample.

** Later on, Joe recruits Cruz to investigate the daughter of Aaliyah Amrohi, daughter of businessman Asmar Ali Amrohi, who's said to have ties to terrorists in Iraq. The op starts in Kuwait since Aaliyah can only go there to spend her money, though it later turns out that her family has access to a mansion in the US.

** "The Lie is the Truth" has the op to capture or kill Asmar Amrohi as Operation Yellow Jacket.

** "Wish the Fight Away" has the op launched against Asmar Amrohi as Operation Yellow Jacket. Meanwhile, Aaliyah and Cruz get close. Really, really close.

** The QRF team finds out the simulated SERE op on Cruz was sanctioned by Joe in "The Beating". And they were told to take it up with her if they don't like it. It doesn't save the people who performed the op from getting a beat down by the QRF team and Cruz.

** The QRF team finds out the simulated SERE op on Cruz was sanctioned by Joe in "The Beating". And they were told to take it up with her if they don't like it.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The SAC is tasked to assist Joe in field operation.

** The QRF team finds out the simulated SERE op on Cruz was sanctioned by Joe. And they were told to take it up with her if they don't like it.

''Special Ops: Lioness'' is a 2023 SpyFiction show streamed online through Creator/ParamountPlus. Created by Creator/Taylor Sheridan, it stars Creator/ZoeSaldana, Laysla De Oliveira, Creator/DaveAnnable, Creator/MorganFreeman and Creator/NicoleKidman. The first episode premiered on July 23, 2023.

** Later on, Joe recruits Cruz to investigate the daughter of Aaliyah Amrohi, daughter of businessman Asmar Ali Amrohi, who's said to have ties to terrorists in Iraq. The op starts in Kuwait since Aaliyah can only go there to spend her money.

** The Lioness program itself as it look for female recruits who are experienced and have specialist skills.

* ShownTheirWork: WordOfGod says that the Lioness program was inspired by actual US military protocol on using female soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan when they interact with female civilians to avoid bad situation when male soldiers are involved such as interrogating and searching female civilians (and terrorists).

''Special Ops: Lioness'' is a 2023 SpyFiction show streamed online through Creator/ParamountPlus. Created by Creator/Taylor Sheridan, it stars Creator/ZoeSaldaena, Laysla De Oliveira, Creator/DaveAnnable, Creator/MorganFreeman and Creator/NicoleKidman. The first episode premiered on July 23, 2023.

''Special Ops: Lioness'' is a 2023 SpyFiction show streamed online through Creator/ParamountPlus. Created by Taylor Sheridan, it stars Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable, Morgan Freeman and Nicole Kidman. The first episode premiered on July 23, 2023.