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The following recap contains spoilers for Invasion S3E4, “The Mission” (written by Glenise Mullins and directed by Sylvain White)
Invasion S3E4 cuts back and forth between two storylines, but I’ll take them one at a time.
The episode begins with Aneesha (Golshifteh Farahani) in FBI custody. She’s given a chance to phone home, but she doesn’t get to tell Clark (Enver Gjokaj) much beyond where she is because she’s only granted 60 seconds to talk to him. An FBI agent actually cuts off the call when this time is up for some reason. Aneesha hasn’t even been charged with anything, so I doubt this is standard practice.
Regardless, the FBI does have suspicions related to Aneesha’s previous association with The Movement and the fact that they found her at an Infinitas house. There were, of course, a bunch of other people at that house, but they seem to have only brought one other person in—Verna (Erika Alexander). For example, her nephew (Ashton Sanders), who is called Professor in the subtitles, was there, but he comes looking for Verna like Clark and Jamila (India Brown) come looking for Aneesha. Trevante (Shamier Anderson) was also there, but seems to have been transported across the globe real quick (more on that later). As for everyone else… Don’t think about it too much! This is Invasion!
Professor insists that his Aunt Verna has a heart condition, and he gets the FBI to bring her meds. When she takes them, she goes into anaphylactic shock, and since Aneesha is a doctor, she tries to help. It turns out, though, that the whole thing is a ruse to secure Verna’s escape. Aneesha, Clark, and Jamila end up in the ambulance with Verna, Professor, and the fake EMTs (who are actually working for Infinitas). And, in classic TV fashion, the feds discover that Verna is Infinitas right as all of this goes down.
It’s not entirely clear why the FBI views Infinitas as a threat to the extent they seem to. They fire bullets at the ambulance as it drives away, which is pretty extreme. It makes sense that they’d be keeping an eye on these message boards and monitoring any potential threat, but it makes me wonder if Infinitas has done something in the past that we don’t know about yet.
Across the world, Trevante is in the custody of the WDC and is joined by Mitsuki (Shioli Kutsuna) and Nikhil (Shane Zaza). They did, indeed, get away from the alien we saw attacking them in last week’s episode, and from the portal base where that alien popped up, but it’s only for Nikhil to take Mitsuki back to the last place she’d ever want to go—the WDC base where they cut open her brain after the events of Season 2.
They’re shuffled into a room where Trev has been impatiently waiting for some time. Hollander (Eric Lange) and General Bryant (Aaron Pearl) follow in short order and let Trev know that they totally believe him now because the aliens are definitely back and the situation is Very Bad. They’re sprawling out of all of the portals, nukes don’t work, the neural darts no longer work, and humanity will be dunzo in about 30 days if they don’t figure something out.
Trev still doesn’t remember everything that happened when he was on the mothership, and Mitsuki doesn’t really understand what she went through in Season 2 either. But since they are the two people who understand the aliens the best, they’re being tapped to go on a mission into the Dead Zone (along with Hollander and a group of soldiers) in order to set off a shard bomb in the heart of the fallen mothership, because that will surely work. Nikhil also has to come for some reason.
We still don’t know where Luke (Azhy Robertson) found the shard that proved to be such an effective weapon against the aliens, though Season 3 has informed us that Nikhil has been mining the material from the fallen alien ship in order to make bullets. I’m not sure it makes sense that the aliens would build ships out of a substance that can kill them, but I guess it’s a real hair of the dog situation. (It’s also funny that people are referring to the material as “shard,” but I digress.)
As Invasion S3E4 ends, the military team is approaching the Dead Zone when the helicopter carrying Mitsuki and Trev is knocked down by a long alien tentacle that comes out of nowhere. I’m sure they’ll be fine, somehow.
Given that we’re not quite halfway through the season, it’s hard to imagine this mission is going to be a success, but I’m curious about where Invasion goes from here.
See you next week.
