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...things get a lot more interesting. And while there's some gaping great holes in the way certain characters are treated (or would more likely have been), overall, this episode is as taut as a snare drum.

It's difficult to write this review without giving too much away and I guess most people would've been watching the series so, unlike a full length movie, these bite sized pieces (episodes) mean we're all aware of the premise. Well hey, it's in the title.

There's just enough cliché regarding non negotiation with terrorists to think it's all going to even more shit than it already has but the flip on its head suggests, but we're yet to know for certain if the 'jackers are actually victims of their past poor choices.

Then there's that annoying woman with the bad wig and the glasses, who I think is going to end up having a significant part to play but so far, this is the first episode she's ever actually spoken in.

The semi home circus continuing on the plane and on the ground with the same flow, realism, logic and arguably good acting overall.

The better out there in the episode was the co-pilote speaking Hungarian with a serious face tainted with dread and transpiration.

What is continuing to happen among the hijackers is just sad, illogical and hair pulling. That young hijacker woman should have been the head since the beginning and the outcome and continuity on the plane would have rolled more smoothly and been a brighter page of their "experience".

The way some of the captives and especially the main hostage character "is" strolling all over the place from nose to tail is just enough to make you crazy even if it's for the greater good with his wide eyes and foxy-sharp ears.

A special note to the very cute and smart dog on the ground that captivated me with his brief appearance more than many human characters.

Recognition as well to the Hungarian SWAT team that didn't get to fire one bullet, to show their skills and looked at the plane flying away with disbelief for the lost opportunity to show their professionalism and training.

Heading to London, hope to see more jets scrambled. At least six for a more nail-biting experience.

Screenplay/storyline: 7 Development: 7 Realism: 7.5 Entertainment: 7.5 Acting: 7.4 Filming/cinematography: 7.5 VFX: 7.5 Music/score: 7 Depth: 6.5 Logic: 5.5 Flow: 7 Drama/thriller: 6.5 Ending: 6.5.

The net sum of this episode is 0, all things considered. At the beginning of the episode we are on a high-tension point and Sam manages to convince the hijackers to land the plane. He has another one of his schemes, this time involving the copilot of the plane who has been pretty sidelined the last few episodes. By some crazy coincidence, the copilot is fluent in Hungarian, which is the next country KA29 is supposed to fly over. Sam manages to get a message to the doctor in the back to convince the hijackers that they need to land to save the injured hijacker who is breathing through a pen. The most unbelievable part of the episode is how Sam is allowed to just wander freely throughout the plane with basically no consequence. He's handcuffed with zip ties, but earlier he was tied to the door and it's crazy that the hijackers have not tied him down at this point because he's such a wild card. He is able to deduce that the leader and the injured hijacker are brothers, and uses that to manipulate the leader.

Meanwhile on the ground, the Home Secretary enters the situation room, and it's not clear what's going on with the Foreign Secretary, but he treats her like a schoolchild rather than a peer Cabinet Minister. The hijackers are demanding the immediate release of two individuals believed to lead an international crime group. We have yet to hear anything from the mysterious PM so we have no idea how capable she is, but the Foreign Secretary is constantly treated like a joke. Speaking of jokes, Detective Daniel gets hoodwinked by the elderly mother of the hijacker leader and his younger brother. After detaining her, she tells him she "wants a tissue" and manages to give him, a veteran policeman, the slip. And this was the guy who identified the hijackers in the first place! We finally return to Dubai where a neighbor of the security lady calls the police when her son isn't able to call her daughter out to play. Turns out the "professional cleaners" just left the bodies in the bathroom! And they claimed that the bathroom was "easier to clean" earlier. More ominously, we see cleaners entering Sam's house, where his son is waiting for him to arrive. The good thing is that he does notice the gun so hopefully he has some sort of a plan like his dad. One thing we did not see in this episode was Sam's ex, she was nowhere to be found and not mentioned. In Hungary, we see troops massing to storm the plane and end the hijacking. But onboard, we see a different situation playing out where the other hijackers warn Sam that landing the plane would put all the passengers' families and the hijackers' families at risk. It's kind of ridiculous to think that this group has the capabilities to target over 200 families in the UK and other countries and not be detected, but that's what they want us to believe. Sam has a comical reaction "Why my family?" That feels more like a parody. Even the Home Secretary reads out the demands so oddly, it's more like a caricature. In the end the injured hijacker commits suicide to stop the emergency landing, and that's what happens. So at the end of the episode, we've had no movement. We may as well have skipped over Hungary and just shown the hijacker dying or killed him offscreen like that passenger earlier.

This episode was full of factual errors. I was quite excited to see how they'll involve Hungary and it was a major letdown. Györ, that airport where they wanted to land is not suitable for an A330. TEK waited for them at Budapest anyway, based on the scenes. Why were they not aiming for Budapest? The Hungarian pilot's hungarian was tragical so she's clearly not a hungarian, but the actors on the ground had no accents, so at least that was correct. By the way, hungarian ATC does speak english professionally.

The air traffic control parts were incorrect from episode 1, but as a hungarian this episode was truly painful to watch.

I knew that the show was going to get political or have a government conspiracy involved somehow not just because that is how programs like this always go, but because they needed to find a way to prolong the drama here. This episode seemed to go a little too far over the top and tease some shadowy group that could kill anyone at a minute's notice, so we had to bend the knee to them, but it was not all bad.

The drama is high here, no pun intended, on the plane, but we also had some with the break-in at Sam's house as well. Just hope they can find a way to wrap this show up in a satisfying way.