EPISODE

8. Welcome to the Occupation

When a covert CIA operative and friend of Joan's gets caught up in a hostage crisis in Mexico, Annie and Joan are sent to assess the situation under the cover of being a news team. But when Arthur decides that they need additional backup, he sends Ben Mercer to assist them.

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Joan receives a distress text message from her old partner ( Sonya Salomaa ), who is in deep cover as an oil executive in Central America. She goes back into the field with Annie and Ben to rescue her by posing as a television crew to investigate a hostage situation in a corporate skyscraper that has been taken over by eco-terrorists in Mexico City. Meanwhile, Jai learns of his father's ( Gregory Itzin ) link to Liza Hearn ( Emmanuelle Vaugier ).

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