"The Brink" Recap: "Sticky Wicket"

Written by Scotty

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Zeke has been recognized by the warlord’s son who was going to take care of Martin’s leg injury, but now the Navy pilot is going to have to fight for his life.  After harmlessly knocking out the smaller man, Glenn comes up with a plan to stall their impending doom and after the two friends continue to beat the heck out of each other, they see an opening and are able to secure a weapon.  

But the warlord’s men are not afraid of dying and are ready to pull the trigger on the Navy men when an unexpected group raids the village.  Thinking that the Taliban has found their hiding spot, the warlord and his men flee for their lives, but what they do not know is that this group is much more dangerous since it is Interpol.  Searching for Vanessa and Martin, the Interpol group is happy to rescue the downed pilots as well and return them back to their ship.

Alex Talbot is trying his hardest to find a way to get the girls out of the embassy without anyone finding out.  Smoking weed with Rafiq, Alex tells him about his hidden tunnel that he has used to sell weed to his friend at the Chinese embassy.  Traveling through the depths of the city to find the door, Alex’s friend agrees with the deal and is ready to take all of the credit for freeing the Pakistani girls before the mad general can do so.  Relaying the message to Fareeda, Alex is starting to be seen more as a selfless man than the pompous man that was his first impression.  Rafiq is starting to believe in him now as well and although the two were somewhat friends going into this, they have become best of friends and will do anything for each other, or so they think.

With a new pilot taking over his travel arraignments, Walter Larson has to come up with a plan to confront Raja before getting back to the United States.  Faking a problem with his emergency surgery, Walter is able to get the plane to land in Switzerland.  Bypassing the trip to the hospital, Walter heads to the hotel where Raja was last seen and is able to find out the general’s room number.  Having a one on one talk with Raja, Walter is able to convince the future leader of Pakistan to move forward with the plan that they had devised, but everything has to come with a price as Walter finds out that Alex’s negotiation skills need much refining.  Being able to convince Raja to return to his country, Walter is feeling sound about his plan, but when he walks into the war room he sees that the coup has been cut short as a smart bomb has just annihilated the President's Palace.

With all of attempts to get things done the right way, they have all fallen to pot in this episode.  Alex was trying to do the right thing by getting the girls to safety before something bad happened to them, but after receiving a call from Walter, he is forced to keep them there.  Walter is able to convince his old college buddy Raja to move forward with the coup, but when Raja takes over the country, he is killed in a military strike that was meant for his half-brother.  Now with Zaman safe and sound, he will probably still retain his power of Pakistan and who knows what he will want to do next.  Zeke and Glenn will be safe on their carrier once again, but not knowing that his new baby’s momma called his ex-wife in his absence, Zeke will be getting an earful from both women, as he said earlier, he will never be Batman.  It is hard to look away from this series since things continue to get worse and we are all waiting to see what will happen when the bombs start to fall.

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