CIA Season 1 Episode 10 Wants Us to Believe Something Way Too Obvious

Critic’s Rating: 3 / 5.0

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When the mole storyline started on CIA, I hoped that the show would deliver something unique.

There was an opportunity to tell the story of Bill learning that he enjoyed the grey shades of police work.

Yet, it’s only been in CIA Season 1 Episode 10 that we’ve seen him do some real spy work, and that’s only because he is quick to believe Colin isn’t the mole.

On top of that, the series is very quick to make us believe one of the most obvious choices for the mole, and with how disappointing the writing has been, I’m starting to believe it’s true.

Finally Getting to See Colin and Bill Work Together

While the case of the week is somewhat disappointing in that it’s easy to guess, it was good to see Colin and Bill actually work together.

It all starts with Bill noting that they need to do things the FBI way, and it’s the “good old-fashioned police work.”

Colin doesn’t even argue about it.

While so many TV shows would show animosity in a working relationship. After all, the CIA and the FBI are notorious for not working together.

We’ve seen it plenty of times on FBI: International and NCIS, where the different federal and secret organizations have wanted to take full control.

Yet, from the beginning of CIA Season 1, Colin has known he needs to work with the FBI. That’s the only way the CIA can operate on American soil.

However, there have been some standard comments about how the FBI will operate in a grey area rather than the CIA.

During this episode, the CIA doesn’t even argue back. Bill proposes they investigate the FBI way, and they all agree that’s the way it needs to be done.

When it is clear that the CIA needs to take over, Bill steps back.

He allows for the darker shades of grey to tackle the problem, and he even gets involved in the mystery.

This should be a view that Colin and Bill are working together well, but with the mole storyline in the background, it just shows they’ve started working on another project.

For the mole in the Fusion Cell, this hints at something bigger.

Now, I would have loved to see a case that wasn’t quite that obvious.

As soon as there was a mention of the NSA agent’s erratic behavior and that his wife and daughter had no sort of activity for six days, it was clear how the entire case would play out.

However, this hour wasn’t about the case, and I do believe it was more about seeing how Colin and Bill can work together, so I’ll take it.

I’m Starting to Believe the Obvious on CIA

Speaking of the mole in the Fusion Cell, this arc is finally ramping up.

It’s taken too long to get to this point. I still expected Bill to try to do a few things on the sly, only to get caught or raise some suspicions.

Instead, it’s taken Bill figuring out that Colin knows something for the whole storyline to push toward a conclusion.

And of course, the series is pushing the most obvious end — that Nikki is the one behind it.

Can I just say that Bill believed Colin way too easily about not being the mole?

I felt that at the end of CIA Season 1 Episode 9, but this installment has reinforced it.

There were no hard questions about Colin’s involvement with Sarah and Pyramid Securities.

We got some sort of half-assed explanation that the mole isn’t just one person and dates back to Toni’s death, but there’s nothing to really back that up.

Bill doesn’t once ask for any sort of proof.

He takes a spy by his own word, a spy who has already openly lied.

It’s not like the two have spent enough time together for Bill to pick up on some of Colin’s tells, so the entire opening of the episode quickly grows frustrating.

Then we get the conversation between Nikki and Gina about the Montana cabin.

It’s clear that nobody in the office really trusts anyone else, yet Colin had previously said the Fusion Cell needed trust to work together.

Gina wants to report the breach on her own computer, while Nikki is doing her best to get Gina to ignore it.

Topped with Gina asking Nikki about going to Tehran in a previous episode, it’s clear that CIA Season 1 is setting up Nikki as the mole.

Usually, I would say this isn’t the way the story will end.

We’ve seen these types of storylines over and over again, and usually, there is some sort of twist.

If the twist is that it’s actually Gina, it doesn’t make sense. That is, unless Gina knows that Colin is onto her and she’s trying to get him blamed.

But overall, Gina being the mole no longer makes sense after this installment.

Nikki is the only one who makes sense at this point.

She knew immediately that Colin had tested Gina, indicating he was looking for a mole.

Then she went to see Jubal about Bill, making it clear that she knows he knows something about this whole situation — and Jubal really needs to learn to lie better!

And sadly, with how disappointing the writing has been throughout the series and how disjointed the storyline has been, I’m starting to believe that the mole is the obvious person.

Colin and Bill had just two episodes to get to the bottom of it all, so there is a little bit of time to give us one more twist.

That murder board is sure to give some sort of clue to Bill, who is now looking at it with fresh eyes, but I do have to question the timeline.

If Colin and Toni knew that there was some sort of mole situation in the Philippines when Toni was killed, why did Colin only start his murder board after that?

Why didn’t he have some sort of board beforehand?

I don’t believe he would have trusted everyone to have only some sort of investigation going on at the Fusion Cell, especially now that he’s running a whole moonlight operation.

So, it doesn’t quite sit right. But at least he’s pulling Bill in, and that allows for something thrilling to happen.

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