Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers from Lioness season 2, episode 4, “Five Hundred Children.”
Joe McNamara and her team’s mission gets more complicated inLionessseason 2, episode 4, “Five Hundred Children,” afterthey make a shocking discovery in a warehouse in Mexico.The Paramount+ action dramaTV show created by Taylor Sheridanrevolves around a CIA program called Lioness, which recruits highly skilled female operatives to infiltrate terrorist groups or any other organizations that are a threat to the United States. InLionessseason 2, the CIA enlists a new undercover agent to take down a Mexican cartel working with China and the Ministry of State Security.
Captain Josephina Carrillo is the new Lioness inLionessseason 2, but after episode 3, Joe is having a hard time trusting her. Episode 4 opens with Joe discussing with Kaitlyn Meade and Byron Westfield that Josephina lied to her about not knowing Spanish or her uncle, Alvaro Carrillo, the leader of the Los Tigres Cartel. They suggest she recruits a shadow to keep an eye on Josephina.The only person Joe can trust to do the job and who knows the Lioness program is Cruz Manuelos,season 1’s Lioness. However, before diving into the primary mission, the team joins forces with another agency in episode 4.
Every U.S. Agency Wants A Slice Of The Pie
At the beginning ofLionessseason 2, episode 4, “Five Hundred Children,” Joe notices a car tailing her and gets Kyle MacManus to help her. After crashing into the vehicle, Joe and Kyle handcuff the man inside, Gutierrez, and learn he is with the Drug Enforcement Agency.The DEA is concerned with the CIA’s movements in Mexico,so, Gutierrez explains he was providing cover for Joe. He offers his help in their mission to take down the Chinese-influenced Los Tigres Cartel, meaning it’s turning into a joint task force.
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The CIA has to placate the DEA, Border Control, and other U.S. organizations(who all want to look good and obtain bigger budgets) after their stunt to rescue the Congresswoman intheLionessseason 2 premiere. As a result, Joe and her team must help Gutierrez hit a warehouse believed to be the cartel’s staging area just south of the U.S./Mexico border. Unfortunately, what they find in the warehouse at the end ofLionessseason 2, episode 4, certainly isn’t what they were expecting.
The Cartels Are Trafficking Humans, Not Just Drugs
Lioness Season 2, Episode 4 Ends With Joe’s Team Making A Disturbing Discovery
TheLionessseason 2 charactersthought they would find drugs in the warehouse in episode 4. Instead, they discover women and children forced into human trafficking. Joe’s team is almost effortlessly able to break into the warehouse (with a lot of help from Josephina in the air), and they are more than shocked whenthey see hundreds of terrified women and children inside.
Thanks to the events ofLionessseason 2, episode 4, Josephina’s success is somehow even more necessary than it was before.
It appears as ifthe cartel is not only smuggling drugs but is also involved in human trafficking.Unfortunately, there is nothing the agents can do to rescue them. However, Joe still puts a tracker in a young girl’s shoe so that another team can save them later inLionessseason 2.
They Were Likely Working With The Cartel
During the mission inLionessseason 2, episode 4,Josephina is (unsurprisingly) in the air, where she works best.Joe orders her to shoot at and kill the Mexican police approaching the scene. Josephina hesitates, of course, but Joe insists, and she has no other choice but to do what her boss says.Josephina has to prove she isn’t a mole inLionessseason 2, after all.
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Maria Carrillo
Josephina shoots and kills them all, just like Joe tells her to do.The Mexican police approaching the warehouse were not Federales,meaning they were local and likely owned by the cartels. If they got to the warehouse, Joe and her team would be in major trouble, which is why Zoe Saldaña’s character orders the Lioness to execute them in episode 4 ofTaylor Sheridan’sLionessseason 2.
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Will Josephina’s Real Mission Finally Begin?
Now that the CIA, DEA, and others know the cartel is dealing in human trafficking, not just drugs, their mission is far more complicated than before inLionessseason 2.The cartel’s threat just keeps on expanding,making Joe’s team’s mission all the more dire. After four episodes ofLionessseason 2 and Cruz Manuelos' arrival, it’s time for the operation to truly begin.
Paramount+ releases new episodes ofLionessseason 2 drop on Sundays at 3 am ET. Season 2 consists of eight episodes, meaning the finale is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, December 8.
Josephina’s meeting with her father is delayed inLionessseason 2, episode 4,but the next hour will likely feature the official introduction of her family. Only four episodes remain in the season, and it’s time to get the ball rolling. However, thanks to the events ofLionessseason 2, episode 4, Josephina’s success is somehow even more necessary than it was before.
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Cast
Special Ops: Lioness is a Paramount+ original series starring Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman. The series centers on a marine and a CIA agent who work together with the daughter of a dangerous terrorist group to destroy the organization. Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone co-creator) and Jill Wagner created the series, which was directed by Paul Cameron and Anthony Byrne.
