This was a decent episode, but with a really bad gun fight. When Jocelyn and Owen get ambushed at the safe house there are several hundreds rounds fired (at close range) and at least half a dozen shotgun blasts, but Owen is the only one to get hit. Only one hit after that many rounds are fired is just too unbelievable.
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The Art of War
Prismark1014 March 2019
Quantico is reaching its conclusion with a run of episodes featuring IRA bad guy Conor Devlin. He has killed family members of Quantico and the British security service wants him to be extradited to Ireland.
Devlin also receives a visit from Garrett King, the former government contractor who nearly drowned Alex earlier in the series. He has nowhere to turn to and wants money from Devlin.
The key to this episode is Sun Tzu's famous book "The Art of War." Which Quantico members seems not to have read.
Harry promises to protect his sister who promptly disappears. No one reckoned that Devlin would have another bite of the apple.
The Quantico team are attacked by King with Owen severely injured. It was a nice shootout as Jocelyn fails to hear the gunfire as Owen is on his own returning fire.
It is Devlin who promises to help the team catch King in exchange for being sent to a prison in Ireland. However can he be trusted and is he simply dividing his enemies?
Despite the thrills, the episode felt flat to me. Given the ineptitude the special ops squad have shown so far, I would not give them a job to be night a watchman in a 7-11 store.
Devlin also receives a visit from Garrett King, the former government contractor who nearly drowned Alex earlier in the series. He has nowhere to turn to and wants money from Devlin.
The key to this episode is Sun Tzu's famous book "The Art of War." Which Quantico members seems not to have read.
Harry promises to protect his sister who promptly disappears. No one reckoned that Devlin would have another bite of the apple.
The Quantico team are attacked by King with Owen severely injured. It was a nice shootout as Jocelyn fails to hear the gunfire as Owen is on his own returning fire.
It is Devlin who promises to help the team catch King in exchange for being sent to a prison in Ireland. However can he be trusted and is he simply dividing his enemies?
Despite the thrills, the episode felt flat to me. Given the ineptitude the special ops squad have shown so far, I would not give them a job to be night a watchman in a 7-11 store.
Very unrealistic writing, amateur tactics, stupid mistakes
chris_patx1 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
As one other reviewer mentioned, the gun fight in the loft is very unrealistic, with assassins who can't hit anyone and FBI agents who can't hit anyone. One agent can't hit anyone even with a shotgun. There are no guards on any of the family members even though they simply put the head of the enemy in jail and they know he is capable of communicating with his troops outside from jail. In a search for people against time, they used four people instead of bringing extras to search. An FBI agent enters a room where everything is obviously shot up, yet never pulls his gun. Agents handle their guns with extreme lack of care. The lack of detail and authenticity in this story is like a 4th grader wrote it.
The writers act like the FBI is the most sorry bunch of law enforcement officers since Barney Fife.
The writers act like the FBI is the most sorry bunch of law enforcement officers since Barney Fife.
Good grief
BuffyLeBuffs17 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Despite being far from perfect I quite enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, and I've been very patient with season 3 but we're coming to the end here and the writing is fast becoming completely inept.
Look, put it this way, I've read The Art of War and I just work in IT. For a bunch of spies and special agents to be referring to it as 'some old library book' like they've never even heard of it is just... I have no words.
Clearly geography and politics were not on the curriculum for the writers either, as the entire Ireland storyline from these episodes would only make sense to someone whose sum knowledge comes from stumbling half-drunk through a St Patrick's Day parade.
Despite being wanted for treason, which has surely got to make him #1 most wanted, King manages to effectively evade the entire US intelligence and law enforcement communities while waltzing in and out of maximum security prisons cunningly disguised as himself. He then kidnaps Doyle's sister, and he and his three - yes, just three - remaining henchmen also locate and take out the loft.
This is in no small part all made possible by the fact that, after Devlin organised to kill them and their families from behind bars last episode, the team are now resting easy because he's behind bars and therefore can't get to them. Oh and they have agents watching 'all his people'. But not him. Or their relatives.
Our intrepid if not well-read heroes - those of them not getting themselves shot - are in what isn't so much hot as tepid pursuit all the way, finally cornering King even as Devlin gets the extradition to Ireland he wanted. Doyle recues a load of girls from a shipping container but - plot twist! - his sister isn't among them, being held in a different container elsewhere. Parrish, who has been thoroughly chided throughout for wanting revenge on King for her assault and the death of her unborn child, takes the moral high ground by not killing him, but then he grabs her gun and... I dunno? He shoots himself? She shoots him in the struggle? Who can tell. It's all a bit rich anyway considering they were all practically cheering Turner on 5 episodes ago when she murdered the baddie in cold blood.
With Owen down, Doyle's sister still missing, Devlin on his way to Ireland (or Northern Ireland, or Wester Britain, or wherever the heck the writers think Irish people are) and the loft compromised, we head into the penultimate episode. I only hope newly-returned Deep and his many degrees can save them because otherwise, based on the rest of the episode, they haven't got a chance.
Look, put it this way, I've read The Art of War and I just work in IT. For a bunch of spies and special agents to be referring to it as 'some old library book' like they've never even heard of it is just... I have no words.
Clearly geography and politics were not on the curriculum for the writers either, as the entire Ireland storyline from these episodes would only make sense to someone whose sum knowledge comes from stumbling half-drunk through a St Patrick's Day parade.
Despite being wanted for treason, which has surely got to make him #1 most wanted, King manages to effectively evade the entire US intelligence and law enforcement communities while waltzing in and out of maximum security prisons cunningly disguised as himself. He then kidnaps Doyle's sister, and he and his three - yes, just three - remaining henchmen also locate and take out the loft.
This is in no small part all made possible by the fact that, after Devlin organised to kill them and their families from behind bars last episode, the team are now resting easy because he's behind bars and therefore can't get to them. Oh and they have agents watching 'all his people'. But not him. Or their relatives.
Our intrepid if not well-read heroes - those of them not getting themselves shot - are in what isn't so much hot as tepid pursuit all the way, finally cornering King even as Devlin gets the extradition to Ireland he wanted. Doyle recues a load of girls from a shipping container but - plot twist! - his sister isn't among them, being held in a different container elsewhere. Parrish, who has been thoroughly chided throughout for wanting revenge on King for her assault and the death of her unborn child, takes the moral high ground by not killing him, but then he grabs her gun and... I dunno? He shoots himself? She shoots him in the struggle? Who can tell. It's all a bit rich anyway considering they were all practically cheering Turner on 5 episodes ago when she murdered the baddie in cold blood.
With Owen down, Doyle's sister still missing, Devlin on his way to Ireland (or Northern Ireland, or Wester Britain, or wherever the heck the writers think Irish people are) and the loft compromised, we head into the penultimate episode. I only hope newly-returned Deep and his many degrees can save them because otherwise, based on the rest of the episode, they haven't got a chance.
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