When the border guard notices Charlie’s nervousness, he checks the trunk and discovers … a case of bootleg moonshine (and promptly confiscates it, completely missing the much more explosive contraband hidden deeper inside the car). She drives the Mercedes across the border into Yugoslavia, and eventually into Austria.
Given the two hours of buildup to this moment, it’s almost anticlimactic when Charlie’s first big mission goes off nearly without a hitch. “Episode 3” begins as Charlie drives off alone with the Semtex, which will serve as the bait in a trap intended to snare Khalil. Has Kurtz given any indication he would jeopardize his all-important mission out of compassion to agents from the other side?īut in the moment, she seems to buy it, which means Charlie’s inevitable disillusionment will need to wait. And while her grasp on global politics has been revealed to be somewhat unformed and naïve, I refuse to believe she actually thinks Salim will be freed or put on trial. Even after all of Kurtz’s head games, I’m not fully satisfied that she would have agreed to this mission so readily. The problem, I suspect, is that the show wants to make sure we’re fully immersed in Charlie’s point of view, even as it twists her into knots to move the plot forward. What is surprising is that the show seems to think we’ll be surprised by this decision. So it’s really no surprise that The Little Drummer Girl’s third episode ends with Kurtz and his team staging Salim and Anna’s deaths in a fiery car explosion that will undoubtedly be written off as an accident.
We’ve spent the past two episodes watching Kurtz maneuver all his chess pieces into place now, it seems, it’s time to start knocking a few over. There was always going to be bloodshed, right? This is a series that began with the bombing death of an 8-year-old boy, and the Israeli spymaster Kurtz vowing to punish the people who were responsible.
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