'Designated Survivor' Recap: 'The Final Frontier'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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​It’s always a wonderful moment when you realize that everything that’s been introduced in one of your favorite television shows, is starting to come together. It means that a grand plan was put together from the get go, one that will reward the audience for their time and their patience and it just so happens, that last night’s episode of Designated Survivor, ‘The Final Frontier’, brought forth that storytelling epiphany since this particular tale started to blend together everything that season two has brought forth thus far.
 
And, as an added bonus to that little treat, for the first time, in a long time, there was a grand conspiracy at the fore front of the story, by way of a hack that disabled the International Space Station and NASA and Roscosmos as well, putting Hannah on the case, with Damian’s help because he had information on said hack, and who might be responsible for it. This led them on the quite the chase around town until they were finally able to find a proper lead on the hack and its code, and while they weren’t able to bring in the people responsible, they were able to get the fix for this mess to the White House so that the Station could be fixed and resupplied before the situation became grim in space.
 
However, that turned out to be quite the difficult task, since the Russians were not exactly cooperative. They wanted to avoid having any American engineer take a peek at their code and their designs, which meant that Kirkman had to bring in his diplomatic big gun, Cornelius Moss, in order to pick his brain on how to resolve this mess, before eventually letting Moss help out in the matter and that’s when the episode dropped quite the bombshell in our lap. Because Moss cut a deal when it comes to the Icarus investigation without the President’s permission in order to save lives and well, such a move did not sit well with Kirkman.
 
In fact, it led to quite the confrontation between Cornelius and Tom wherein Moss flat out called the President to the carpet in regard to his inaction and indecisiveness over the past few weeks, and while Moss’ intentions were noble, Tom saw it as insubordination through and through, and asked Cornelius for his resignation and well, this was shocking to say the least. It goes to show that Tom really isn’t one hundred percent ready to sit in the chair, and he’s pushing himself harder than he needs to and that may lead to trouble in the weeks to come, if not sooner seeing as to how the video of his conversation with the man who killed his wife found its way onto the internet.
 
So, that’s what we are left with at the end of this episode, a President in crisis since he’s clearly struggling with his duties as Commander-in-chief, and now, new threats are coming to the surface and really, when all is said and done, I love that everything is finally starting to come together. After all, everything in regard to Damian’s double-crossing ways was revealed in this tale and while he isn’t telling us everything just yet, one has to wonder if Patrick Lloyd somehow played a part in this as well, and really, everything will now revolve around Alex’s death going forward, because if Tom cannot get over that pain…well then disaster will surely follow. Until next time.

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