Okay so this episode started off rather strangely; It starts in Stockholm, Sweden, with the appearance of a load of red-masked identical-looking guys carrying identical briefcases. It was a beginning that brought a confused look to my face, not exactly expected. The camera’s main focus, however, is a woman, with her eyes closed and headphones in. She follows a group of the men to a train and, whilst the train is moving, disables the lights, takes one of the briefcases, and escapes. It just so happens that she managed to know which one of the suitcase contained diamonds, adding to the total thirty million pounds worth of diamonds she had stolen. But how could she know when all of the people and cases they carried were identical?
Back at the plane, the team find out, via hacked video footage, that Amador has a camera in her eye that lets her have a kind of x-ray vision, something that has not been seen on such a small scale and astounds Leo and Jemma, and also that she can revive messages and instructions, and is actually being controlled with no free will. It is discovered later on in the episode that if she does not do as she is ordered then the fail-safe in her eye will kill her. And from there the team work out a plan to find Amador and help her escape from her controller’s grasp and find out who it is controlling her.
However this week’s episode surprised me. It was a lot more comfortable to watch, the story was well thought out and thorough, with enough action and also the odd wisps of humour every so often. I also liked the fact that they left the ending open so they could continue with the story at some point but also had the ability to cut it there. Although the story was quite straight forward it wasn’t all plain sailing for the team which makes it not quite so simple. Pascale Armand Is great in her role of Armador, cool and collected despite the situation that she has been put in, and perhaps may make a re-appearance if the team decide to try and find out who is behind the whole scheme of controlling people to do their dirty work.