SEAL Team Recap: If You Can’t Stand the Heat — Who Shockingly Left Bravo Mid-Deployment?
The assorted tensions boiled over this week on SEAL Team, in an episode that found Bravo down a man in the end.
Coming off of exploding the fentanyl precursor factory, Bravo this week was tasked with surveilling — strictly surveilling — a Chinese citizen who might link Beijing to the drug trade, while he and his wife and kid vacationed on Penang Island, Malaysia. Thing is, the abandoned restaurant where Jason & Co. had to set up had a thoroughly busted A/C unit, meaning that the temperature literally rose while the friction between various team members overheated in turn.
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Left to do nothing but watch their target on hidden cams, Bravo’s stakeout turned into what Friends‘ Ross might call Truth Day. Everyone learned, from Ray, that Jason offered to give up his trident in trade for the rest of Bravo coming off the bench. Ray discovered that Sonny went to bat for Ben, the vet who played a role in Clay’s death. Omar called out Jason for going soft and making questionable calls, and Ray for being a less-than-stellar “coach” ahead of retiring. And Sonny joined in the Bravo 1 pile-on after learning about the whole trident thing.
But the blistering, rat-a-tat-tat round of name-calling and getting up in one another’s grills came to a halt when Drew — doing right by Bravo for once, if not 100% on purpose? — finally owned up to his past trauma. Yes, as Sonny armchair-shrinked, Drew escaped his wealthy family to seek out a new one, as an operator. And Drew found that family, on Echo team. Yes, that Echo team, which we learned midway through Season 1 had been ambushed in Jalalabad. Drew wasn’t with his team that fateful night, so in one fell swoop he lost his newfound family. Hence, his hesitation to bond with a prospective new one.
Bravo’s surveillance mission took a turn when an anticipated storm knocked out their video feed, just as some cartel baddies who had shown up at the target’s vacation home got to torturing him and his wife for information. And then their kid, sleeping down the hall, woke up. Bravo was already locking horns with one another, wanting to intercede on the waterboarding but told by Davis to stand down. But with the video feed out, Jason made the call to breach the home after killing the lights, and taking out the goons.
Amid all the stakeout drama, Jason also was dealing with sat-phone calls from his son’s hockey coach, saying that Mikey had been injured. After returning from the Malaysia op to their Thailand base, Jason received another message from the coach — and then informed Ray, Sonny et al that whatever was next with this DEA team-up, they’d be doing it without him. Because, completely contrary to something Ray had told Drew earlier, Bravo 1 was heading home, mid-deployment, to be with his son as he got surgery for a torn ACL.
What did you think of Bravo’s in-fighting this week, and Jason’s decision?
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