The investigation in Paris turns up a promising new lead, but a mishap in following it leads to disaster. Jack makes progress in his relationship with Cathy, but Sulemain's next move throws Paris into chaos.
Tropes:
- Angry White Man: One of the French cops turns out to be Islamophobic who thinks that Muslims are taking over the country and trying to force their ways on the French people. Finding out that the guy he is riding with (Greer) is a Muslim makes him shut his mouth.Greer: It's a tasbih. I use it when I'm unable to pray. Or when I need Allah to grant me restraint.
- Anyone Can Die: Both Ali and Sandrine are developed characters who were in at least one previous episode, and both die before the end of the episode.
- Bystander Syndrome: Although people are standing around the station forecourt when Sandrine is shot, and Ryan yells at someone to call her an ambulance, she bleeds out with no sign that anyone has tried to administer basic first aid to save her.
- Call-Back: Sandrine encourages Jack to text Cathy, reminding him that he's a "wolf."
- Defiant to the End: After shooting Ali in self-defence, Jack begs him to tell where the attack is taking place. Ali just grins at him as he dies.
- The Dog Bites Back: Sulemain relies on this trope to increase his following. He goes to buy some kidnapped doctors from another ISIS leader, but gives the money to the guy's followers instead, stating it's because he heard they haven't been paid for months. The followers turn on their leader and follow Sulemain instead.
- Foreshadowing: Early on, the plan to follow Ali to his meeting is endangered when he's pulled over by a gendarme. That situation is contained, and Sandrine orders all other gendarmes cleared from the road. When they stop to refuel, Jack notices a gendarme car in the forecourt. The presence of this gendarme causes huge problems and gets Sandrine killed.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: When Ali flees the firefight, Sandrine is on the floor with a bullet wound. Jack stops to help her, but she yells at him to go after Ali. Take a Third Option is averted; although Jack tells someone to call an ambulance before running after Ali, Sandrine dies before Jack can return. To make matters worse, he didn't manage to take Ali alive either.
- Friendship Moment: Returning to D.C. after losing both Sandrine and Ali, Greer advises Jack not to "take it home" with him, and to call Greer if he needs to talk. This advice leads him to call Cathy and go on that date.Greer: But you'd better really need to call me.
- Meaningful Funeral: The attack is revealed to take place at the funeral of the priest who was murdered previously. Three members of Sulemain's cell bar the doors and set off canisters of poison gas to kill everyone inside.
- Nice to the Waiter: Played With. Jack takes Cathy out on a date to a restaurant. Her glass is slightly chipped, so Jack calls the restaurant's owner over to complain. Things quickly escalate and it looks like the two men are about to start throwing punches. Cathy is quite unimpressed by Jack's macho posturing over damage to a wine glass. Then it is revealed that the restaurant owner is actually an old family friend of Jack's and the two men are actually just teasing each other. Jack introduces Cathy to his old friend and she is very amused by the entire situation.
- Poor Communication Kills: A gendarme unconnected with the case just happens to be in the station where Jack and Sandrine stop to refuel. When Ali proves to be there also, a shootout occurs in which the gendarme mistakes Sandrine for a criminal and shoots her, getting shot himself. Both of them die.
- Shipper on Deck: Sandrine encourages Jack to be proactive with Cathy, telling him to text her back and arrange a date. Once he's done so, she playfully backtracks that it might not work that way, because "American women are so uptight."
- Spotting the Thread: While waiting for Sandrine outside the station, Jack notices a car with frost on the bonnet, with a large melted patch in the centre (so it was recently parked for long enough to get frost, and not driven enough since to melt all of it). Looking inside, he sees it's been hotwired. He realises it's Ali's new car moments before Ali appears, spots him and starts shooting.
