Did we meet another of The Voice’s unwilling servants tonight, or did we get our first glimpse at who might be behind all the terrorist plots on Quantico? Check out our review of Quantico season 1, episode 20.
We are inching ever closer to finding out who is behind all the chaos that has had Alex Parrish running around NYC like a crazy person. Quantico season 1, episode 20 revealed more than ever before as to whom may or may not be behind the bombings in New York. Check out all the details below and let us know in the comments who you believe is ultimately pulling all the strings.
Present Day
Alex Parrish
She and Shelby are working together flawlessly… sort of. Shelby told Alex that Will was in the ICU (not dead like we thought, yay!), and it led Alex to check the ICUs around the city for another John Doe. They check out a lead at a different hospital and walk into the John Doe’s room to find Drew suffering from what looks to be radiation burns.
After chatting with Drew for a bit (which you can read all about in his section below), Alex and Shelby concoct a plan to get Alex into’s Ryan’s office to check his computer for suspicious information. Drew has accused Ryan of being the traitor, and Alex needs to know. She and Booth have quite the confrontation, which ends in Alex escaping after using some incredible moves on him, including a swift kick to the face.
During her desperate escape, Alex gets a phone call. Drew’s voice is on the other end and he leads her out of the building and directly into major trouble.
Drew Perales
Drew plays a convincing victim to Alex and gets her to take a flash drive straight to Ryan’s computer and effectively frame him for everything that has gone on with the terror cell. He appears to have been used by The Voice after he was sent pictures of his younger sister and her friends, threatening him in the most effective way possible.
Was that an act? Is he being blackmailed into action just like Alex? Or is he an active participant in this terror cell?
His behavior at the end of the episode makes it seem that the latter is more than likely true. He doesn’t seem reluctant at all to drive Alex straight to Ryan Booth’s truck, which has a nuclear bomb strapped to the passenger side floorboards. He mentions that it was either Alex or Booth that was going to go down for this, and since Alex refuses to let Ryan take the blame, it seems that she will be The Voice’s ultimate victim.
Ryan Booth
Ryan is either the most completely innocent party in all of this, or the smartest double agent in the history of spy thrillers. His innocence would be thrilling, since he is definitely a character we’ve been rooting for since we met him in the pilot, but his guilt would be completely unexpected.
Ryan’s role in this episode was to act innocent and naive about everything that has gone on with Alex. It may be true. He may not know anything that she’s talking about, including how Natalie died. However, if he does know things and has been working right alongside Drew to frame Alex by trying to get her to frame Ryan, it would be a stroke of pure genius on the show’s part. Plus it would make us look pretty damn smart for predicting it a few weeks ago.
Back at Quantico
Nimah and Reyna Amin
Nimah and Reyna are given a specific assignment for their day at the field office. While everyone else is shadowing agents and working in the file room, they are told that they have a contact in the Richmond office, and they need to identify him or her and make plans to rendezvous in order to put into the field.
The girls don’t pass with flying colors. They keep their cover fairly well, although Reyna needs to beef up her flirting, since Nimah is so damn good at it. They manage to do their hand-offs well throughout the day, and no one actively discovers their mistakes until it comes time to initiate contact. They believe the man they were assigned to was their contact, and Nimah goes to his office to confront him and pass the assignment, while Reyna is confronted by another agent in the stairwell who identifies himself as their contact.
Nimah revealed herself and her sister to the wrong agent, and this mistake could cost them. She agrees to go out with him that night to talk her way out of him calling their handler, and something happens that we aren’t privy to.
When she returns from her date, Nimah complains of not feeling well, and lays in her bed blankly staring at the wall. Something awful happened to her while she was covering their tracks, and the horrified look on her face has us thinking the worst.
Caleb Haas
We all know that Caleb has been lying to Shelby about her parents. He is doing it for all the best reasons, but it’s still wrong. Unfortunately for him, Iris is majorly anti-Caleb at the moment and goes on the warpath against him. She tells Shelby about Caleb’s duplicity and Shelby is pissed beyond belief. It would take a miracle to get her and Caleb back on the same page again.
After her big admission to Shelby, Iris seems to calm down about the anti-Caleb rhetoric. It’s like she suddenly realized that not everything he has done is for the worst.
Ryan Booth
We learned an awful lot about Booth’s history in tonight’s episode. Thanks to the agent that Parrish, Fletcher, and Chang were supposed to be working with, we found out that Ryan abandoned his post during that sting operation in Chicago that went horribly wrong. While the agent, Jordan Kent, wants Ryan to go down for this, making him out to have willingly left his post and wanting that cell to succeed in their objective that night, Ryan tells us a different story.
You see, Ryan wasn’t the weak link in the FBI chain that night. He messaged Liam, who was supposed to relieve Booth during that chapter of the sting operation, only Liam never showed to replace Ryan, which made it appear that he abandoned his post. Liam was the weak link, and Ryan has covered for him ever since.
Least trustworthy NATs based on the events of this episode
- Drew Perales:
- Ryan Booth:
- Shelby Wyatt:
WE KNEW IT! Well, okay, we don’t actually know anything yet. It definitely seems like he is pretty well entrenched in whatever terror plot Alex has been trying to stop all this time. We’re pretty sure that he’s not going to be exonerated when this is all said and done.
Okay, so at the moment, Ryan is looking clean as a whistle when it comes to the blame game, but it’s his blameless nature in all of this that has us eager to find him guilty. He’s too good, too innocent, and too easy to pass off as just another piece in the game.
This might be a bit of a stretch, seeing as she is wholeheartedly working with Alex in the present timeline at the moment, but her full-throated defense of Drew puts her into question. When Drew tried to point the finger at Booth, she came to his defense, and did everything she could to convince Alex to go to Ryan’s computer and do as Drew instructed. If Booth and Drew are in fact working together, maybe Shelby was being used by them. It wouldn’t be the first time.
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