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And that's why I love episodes like this.

Some people will be p*ssed off because it shows a real world problem that doesn't touch them (at the moment) so their antipathy and selfishness gets fully displayed.

Because mental health care is just as important as physical health care, and we see that in this story, but just at the end. Because the attacks aren't aimed at the politician with the progressive ideas (which is a very real world problem nowadays, and not only in the US), but they are really aimed at an aide who had an accident a year ago where a kid got killed, and the father blames that aid, although the police investigation showed it was just a horrible accident. The father spinned mentally out of control and tried to kill said aide. Nice that the politician showed his principles and told the public that it was also a clear indicator that health care matters.

2 point detraction for the stupid love thingy between the protagonist and the politician. Wasn't necessary, and distracting.

Once again Hollywood thinks it's necessary to attack conservatives and push an agenda. Poor writing and obtuse manipulation without addressing any of the real underlying issues. And of course using people of color to do it all in their good old stereotypical fashion.

It's drivel like this that's causing the divide in our nation ever wider. Nothing but headlines and talking points but no substance. It's one-sided and biased and really hurts the otherwise good premise of the show.

The writers are even misrepresenting the agenda of the WEO as goals of the right and outright lying to their audience.

Just keep in mind this show is for entertainment purposes only, has absolutely no bearing on reality, and in many cases is the exact opposite.

I'm torn about wasting my time writing a review for this episode. It's just so hackneyed. On the one hand, you can count on hollywood writers to be consistent, on the other hand, it's because their writing is consistently bad AND predictable: It's yet another episode that portrays a liberal (a Congressman) as a shining beacon of hope, and the conservatives who oppose him as idiots (and called "morons" by one of the agents investigating them). They immediately leap to the conclusion that it's the conservatives who are trying to set off a bomb to kill the politician. They come up with 4 white suspects: a male "anti-government conspiracy theorist," a male "with ties to (a) far-right militant movement," and 2 women who are "radical conservative influencers"

No loaded language there!

They finally figure out that it's someone else entirely, with a completely different motive. But they still manage to make conservatives the bad guys in an unrelated attempted kidnaping. But this sort of technique has been used before, I remember an FBI episode which similarly allowed the show's writers (and the agents therein) to trash conservatives up front, only to later discover the villain is someone else. Oops! Sadly, to be fair, this show probably contains the most accurate portrayal of FBI agents we've yet seen on the show. Unfortunately, the news has shown us that many FBI personnel hold half the U. S. population in contempt.

Oh, and when they are not dealing with the episode's actual subtle-as-a-sledgehammer plot, they waste lots of time on the agents' personal relationships (Rookie Simone & the politician and Rookie ex-TV star & the techie). It just shows how little time the writers put into thinking about the plot since all this relationship stuff doesn't leave much of the show's 43-minute running time for a well-developed plot. It's all so sadly predictable.