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At the Meadows academy, the headmaster Leo Garner teaches the students about "face and trigger." This phrase denotes the teamwork between partners with an unsuspecting female working in tandem with a trained killer.

The combination of the two friends will ensure success in the most difficult espionage assignments. Working with her partner Clara, Hanna participates in a daring escape plan from the Meadows at 10:00pm sharp. Unfortunately, the plan implodes.

Marissa has invested considerable energy in enabling the escape. She is working with a confederate with the code name of Vesuvius in the overall goal of learning who is behind the operation of the mind control program. But Marissa's ex-husband John Carmichael refuses to reveal any details.

A bad sign is when Clemency (Clara) informs Sandy of the escape plan. By that time, Clemency had decided to sell out her friend Hanna, newly named "Mia Wolf." The brainwashing program has convinced Clemency that she now finally belongs to a family and that Hanna can do the same if she remains in the program.

By the close of the program, the prospects have never appeared more bleak for Hanna and Marisa, who are now captives at the Meadows.

Well, that plan failed very quickly, and miserably. And all because of Clara. She just couldn't keep it to herself. But I don't think it's entirely her fault. If I'm not mistaken, the implant in her arm is making/keeping her loyal to them by releasing a drug into her system, constantly, which is resetting her personality or something, or by drugging her some other way. I mean, maybe not to that extent. She still seems the same, just not completely, you know?

I'm pretty sure something like that was displayed in the first season with what the implants are for. I think the implants make the trainees more docile and compliant to where they're more inclined and likely to go along with everything, unconsciously or consciously. Either that, or she's falling for what they want the trainees to fall for, or a little bit of both. Because you'd think she'd react some sort of way once she realized Sandy told on her, specifically Hanna, but instead, she was on the side of the other trainees, all of which, including her, looked to be under some kind of hypnosis at the end of the episode.

Of course, Hanna is most likely going to get through to her, eventually. Considering that the main storyline of this season seems to relate to Clara being captured and being taken to The Meadows, The Meadows itself, and Hanna rescuing her, and how Hanna already got to The Meadows in the previous episode, the third episode of the season, I don't think that will happen in a few episodes. I think it'll happen closer to the end of the season.

I think it would be cool if all of the trainees end up on Hanna's side and all of them take out everyone else at The Meadows. That's a possibility that I can see happening. At the same time, there's a part of me that feels like that won't be what happens. At the very least, Sandy will probably be "turned" by Hanna and be on her side or will be on her side by her own volition. And I think that could result in Sandy and Jules fighting, probably in a life or death situation, as I don't think Jules will end up on Hanna's side, even if Sandy does.

Also, there must be a purpose for why we're still seeing (and hearing Sandy's voiceover) messages to her "family". Like, it made sense when that started. But for it to continue being shown to us after that, there's going to be more to it than to convey what kind of person Sandy is, what she's feeling. Maybe it'll be used in a way to where when Sandy is starting to have misgivings or starting to "break free" from what's supposed to happen and all the pathways she's been "programmed" and predicted to act, that will be conveyed by having her stop messaging her "family" or start being more self-aware and asking specific questions. Even then, I don't see what the point of going through all of that just for that would be. But I hope there will be something bigger at play with that.

Ultimately, not much happened in this episode. All that I already said pretty much covers the highlights. But despite that, it was more interesting and "enjoyable" than the previous two episodes were, for me. I hope this is a sign that, from this point to the end of the season, will gradually get better and better, at least from an enjoyment standpoint. I still won't be holding my breath for that to happen, but I will hope that it does.