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Shashank

Great reaction. I love that you’re enjoying the changes in the team dynamics. I like how slowly they’ve build up and the changes mostly make sense given where each character is. Sometimes procedural type shows get in a rut, with each character always doing the same thing, this show avoids that by letting the characters develop, struggle and change in relation to the overarching plot. Olivia is very unsettled if not quite unhinged. A person who was all about control, competence and being empathetically attuned to those around her is losing all those centering points. She can’t trust her mind half the time, she can’t trust her memories, her body in injured and unreliable [an injury whose cause is a mystery], she has some sense of being told something important but can’t recall what, she know she’s been experimented on as a child and is somehow caught up in ridiculously complicated plot by nefarious people and in some ways with people she works with [Walter being involved in the experiments]. She is less attentive to those around her because she’s caught up in her own stuff. So yeah she should be unsettled, and I think her pulling the gun was a way to make sure the audience realizes she isn’t just a bit off or tired, she is really on edge and doesn’t like losing control. Still the scene feels a bit off and out of left field, I think they could have done a better job of relating the same info about her struggle but make it more in line with her character, it doesn’t really feel like something Olivia would do even if unhinged. Peter was kind of a reluctant part of the group at the start of s1, now he seems fully invested in his relationship with his father, and has some level of affection for Olivia. It’s also been indicated that much of his life he’s worked in a morally grey area at best. Working on these cases and actually saving people and stopping bad guys seems to be causing some kind of new found satisfaction…he appears to be invested in the mission more as this episode really shows. Also with Olivia struggling, which he tries to bring up with her multiple times this episode, he comes forward to fill the initiative void that leaves in the team. It’s also great that Astrid isn’t just there now, but is starting to get some actual good scenes and lines, particularly her interactions with Walter. Even Broyles mainly talked with Olivia last season and she managed the “team”, with her more distracted or missing at times [epsiode1], he’s beginning to interact with Peter and Walter more and they with him which makes for great scenes and at least a beginning of actual relationships between those characters. All in all, things they are a changing.....

Anonymous

With Liv pulling the gun on Sam, I think it was just mainly to show us the progress she's making in her physical recovery. But if you think about how obsessive she is about solving everything, and given that this particular mystery directly affects her, I give her a pass. She's been bottling up her frustration about not getting better, patiently waiting for Sam to 'fix' her, and she hasn't seen any results. And to be fair, what little he had been doing with her, did seem like bullshit. She just had enough and lost it. In her situation I would have too. It showed us a flaw in her character and just how deeply this is affecting her. It was out of character, they could have done in a different way. But given the extraordinary nature of the circumstance, I can see even someone as controlled as her, losing their shit.