The Breakdown
Ellen tells her family that running away was a bad idea and that they need to cooperate with Duncan and his team. When Duncan leaves the room Brian asks what was that all about. Ellen tells him that she feels she needed to say that even if she didn’t mean it. A woman gets out of a cab and knocks on the Sanders’ door. It is Ellen sister, Duncan pulls a gun on her. Ellen explains to her that Duncan is secret service and is there to protect them while she is on the job for the president. Sandrine asks Duncan for the money again and he says he will get it. Kramer offers to help with the money. Ellen is called to the secret service HQ about Angela’s murder where Duncan is waiting with Hoffman awkward!
When Morgan leaves the doctor office the doctor calls someone to report possible child abuse. Sandrine is about to walk when Kramer comes up to her about a way to make the 50k she needs. They plan to rob a high stakes poker game that has a bunch of rich players. Being that the team is short they take Jake as collateral while they go to the poker game. Ellen’s sister sees Brian in the bathroom with his huge scar and asks what happened. He tells her he had a cyst removed and it got infected. Sandrine goes to the poker game looking hot, while Kramer has Jake tagging along for safekeeping. Ellen tells Brian that the only way out of this may be to kill Duncan.
Duncan proclaims that he made it up and Archer is a confidential informant working for him and that he couldn’t blow his cover in a room full of people. Ellen goes to the friend’s house and finds the gun and leaves. At the poker game Sandrine gets the security code to the house. Later on Kramer comes up and sticks up the game for the money. He takes Sandrine as hostage and tells everyone that he will kill her if anyone follows him. Outside the man Sandrine owes money to comes up to her, Kramer pistol whips him and they leave.
The Analysis
Sometimes these episode feel like they should be a half an hour. This one was filled with so much filler it doesn’t make sense. Last week we had a good episode and this week this one just seemed to drag on. The Ellen’s sister angle was dumb but I thought that the way Duncan got her to leave was actually funny rather than sad, which was how the writers painted it to be.