Written by John Edward BetancourtTHIS IS THE EMERGENCY SPOILER ALERT SYSTEM...YOU ARE ADVISED TO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK...Sometimes the big reveals that we all crave as fans when it comes to our favorite television shows, downright backfire. Sure we are blessed with the answers we have been dying to know, but when it comes to a solid thriller like Designated Survivor, learning about all the facts can prove dangerous to the characters we know and love and that's precisely the issue that came about from Hannah uncovering the details about the grand conspiracy in last week's episode. Because armed with the knowledge that Nestor Lozano survived the FBI raid, Hannah became obsessed with discovering how he managed to pull such a feat off and the result of her hunt, led to quite a few amazing things in last night's episode, making 'Lazarus' perhaps the most tense episode since the season premiere and it was a story that also managed for the first time ever to put President Kirkman on the back burner for a change. Granted there was still a story to follow for Tom, in that a smear campaign was coming together to bring down Speaker Hookstraten mere hours after the President made the personal choice to start moving her through the Vice President process. But while it was nifty to see Kirkman and Kimble maneuver through the quagmire created to end her career, Hannah's hunt and everything that came out of it was far more powerful. Case in point, by digging deep on who was actually killed in the raid, Hannah managed to uncover a brand new person of interest and uncover who the White House Mole is, in rapid succession. Sadly, she's not aware of the latter part of that just yet, but let's talk about that new POI first. As it turns out, the man that died in the raid that night was a former beneficiary of Browning Reed's charity in that the organization bought his mother a wonderful new home, leading Hannah to meet and speak with the former CEO of the company, a Mister Patrick Lloyd. Lloyd was of course dismissive of the questioning, but the fact that he more or less quoted, verbatim, verses from the Pax Americana manifesto that Hannah discovered last week, has her suspicious that Lloyd's ties to the whole mess go far deeper than he is leading on, and perhaps the most intriguing part of meeting Lloyd is the fact that he still feels slighted by the United States for ending the deal with Browning Reed and sending his company into bankruptcy, certainly making it feel as though this man has quite the motive to topple and reinvent the nation. As for how she inadvertently exposed the mole to the audience, it all goes back to her investigation since she asked an NSA agent that works the White House detail to assemble a video diary of Nestor Lozano's actions the day of the assassination attempt. While that may seem unimportant, and off the cuff, it turns out from a quick reveal in the final seconds of the episode, that this man is not only the one feeding Abe Leonard all kinds of juicy information for his story, but our mystery man is also aligned with Lozano's people and that should make things interesting going forward because he no doubt had access to information on Hannah's temporary residence allowing for Nestor to kidnap her and who knows what dangers await her and the nation from here on out. When all is said and done however, wow. The show is no longer messing around with the conspiracy. As the old saying goes, when it rains, it pours and the floodgates are clearly open. If anything it looks like the conspirators are working hard to keep on schedule for the next wave of attacks, which means Browning Reed has plenty of munitions elsewhere to accomplish this and that means it's imperative they find Hannah as soon as possible, since she's really the only one with complete knowledge and understanding of the matter and Kirkman may have to make some tough decisions to protect the nation if by chance she cannot be found in a timely manner. Either way, the clock is ticking, the tension is rising and I cannot wait to see what next week has in store for us. Until then.
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