Cleopatra is the ninth episode of the second season of Quantico.
Synopsis
The recruits are schooled in the art of seduction, which Alex sees as a perfect opportunity to get closer to Owen, but will it threaten her relationship with Ryan? In the future, Alex finally gets the answers she’s been looking for about who and what the terrorists are on.
Plot
Past
Owen and Angie tell the recruits about seduction. Each recruit is tasked with sleeping with another person. In the process, Sebastian meets a redhead woman who works as a senator's aide, Carly Klapp. Dayana later develops with a person named Kareem Johnson and knocks him unconscious. She then urges León to help her clean up the body. León, suspicious of Shelby, confronts her and asks if she is lying to him. However, she softens up to him and he leaves, spotting Nimah Amin, who walked into the house. Dayana later called someone and told that person that León is weak.
Present
Alex is freed and taken back to the FBI office for interrogation. Interrogated by Ryan's ex wife, Hannah Wyland, she tells her about the terrorists, the hostage crisis, the hostages, her time at the Farm, and the AIC. Narrating her time back at the Farm, Alex also tells Hannah about Ryan, Harry Doyle, Leigh Davis, Jeremy Miller, Angie, and Surabaya.
Hannah, refusing to believe Alex, has Shelby find something that supports Alex's narrative. Shelby later finds out that the CLF is not the AIC, they are trying to take down the rogue group. In addition, she finds out that Dayana and Mike Murray (who was killed by the CLF in LCFLUTTER) were AIC agents who killed a CIA operative in Surabaya. Miranda later kidnaps Alex at gunpoint and admits that she is a terrorist.
Cast
- Priyanka Chopra as Alex Parrish
- Jake McLaughlin as Ryan Booth
- Aunjanue Ellis as Miranda Shaw
- Yasmine Al Massri as Nimah Amin
- Johanna Braddy as Shelby Wyatt
- Russell Tovey as Harry Doyle
- Blair Underwood as Owen Hall
- Pearl Thusi as Dayana Mampasi
- Aarón Díaz as León Velez
- David Lim as Sebastian Chen
- Eliza Coupe as Hannah Wyland
- Candi Boyd as Angie Reynolds
- Paige Patterson as Carly Klapp
- Alexandra Turshen as Samantha
- Laila Robins as General Katherine Richards
- Jason Tottenham as Jason Bowling (uncredited)
Trivia
- The title of this episode, Cleopatra is a CIA cryptonym for an undercover agent trained to use seduction techniques in order to extract information from intelligence targets.
- In the episode, Hannah Wyland is reinstated to work again as an FBI agent. Previously, she was suspended for instigating an incident in Clue.
- During Alex's interrogation scene, Hannah revealed that Owen Hall is currently serving his sentence at a federal prison.
Promo
