“Lazarus” (Season-1;Episode-18;aired-04/26/17)

POTUS & Hookstraten

Finally, the gun control bill is signed, and in part due to Hookstraten’s help. As promised, the president “remembers” this and wants to bring her on as V.P. She’s for it and the vetting process begins.

As seems to always be the case in government, the vetting process turns up a possible entanglement: alleged bribes for favors.

The leak of this information seems to be the pesky Senator Bowman (come on Montana, you’re better than that!) He says it isn’t him, and after some investigating, Hookstraten finds out it is Liam Price, a guy who used to work for her. Turns out 12 years ago, he stole some stuff and Hookstraten was going to allow him to resign. He didn’t, so she fired him. Now, with an axe to grind, he (supposedly along with many others), wants her out. Ever the clever person, Hookstraten saved all her old files on him and threatens him with it.

After discussions with POTUS and Emily, it turns out that revealing that might not have its desired effect, as she is viewed as “old school” government, and with the death of many government officials, the newly elected are viewed as “the rising generation” and she’s toxic to them.

Hookstraten assures POTUS that everything was on the up-and-up, but regardless, the Ethics Committee opens an investigation.

POTUS wants to stick with Hookstraten even though Emily suggests it’d be better to move on.

Hannah & Atwood

Turns out the chopper guy is Lozano and not the person I thought Hannah was involved with who died at the capitol (although, with how many politic figures are involved, that could still be a possibility, right?).

But, wait, if Lozano isn’t dead, who was killed? Dun, dun dun.

Despite being found out Hannah & Atwood get away although Atwood takes a bullet to the arm.

Disturbed to think Lozano is alive, Hannah starts looking into it. An autopsy reveals it wasn’t Lozano, but rather a decoy (poor sucker!) who in his living days was a former Browning Reed employee with ties to CEO Patrick Lloyd via a home loan. After the attempted sniper shooting, Lozano never left the building until the next day while the decoy was actually followed and killed by a grenade (undetermined whether on accident or on purpose).

Hannah knows Mr. Lloyd is guilty of being involved, just like MacLeish was, but her boss indicates it’ll be difficult to ‘prove’ said guilt and that they’ll have to catch him with dirty hands.

Hannah pays Mr. Lloyd a visit with her boss, but doesn’t get far since Mr. Lloyd is one smart cookie and answers all her inquiries with plausible lies. One odd thing about their conversation is that he ends up quoting something from the odd Pax Americana book: We won’t allow the U.S. government to become a system of oppression.

She leaves and soon after arriving at her motel, she’s kidnapped in a white van, whose driver is none other than Lozano.

Press

After waiting for 3 hours as part of a “test”, Abe Leonard is tipped off that the White House has been lying about the attack. He’s told to look into Atwood. When he catches up with Atwood, he’s nearly beaten up for pushing the line asking about his dead son.

When he finally meets his source, it’s a government person who is connected to Lozano. Appears we have found yet another mole within the government. Who exactly is this guy?

Questions?

How many decoys will there be?

Why is Hannah staying in a random hotel? Wouldn’t the FBI have a safe house or somewhere else she could stay?