SEAL Team Recap: If You Can’t Take the Heat — Who Made Bravo Leave Mid-Deployment?
Mixed tensions came to a head this week on SEAL Team, in an episode that finally saw Bravo take down a man.
After destroying a fentanyl precursor plant, Bravo was tasked this week with surveillance — intense surveillance — of a Chinese national who could link Beijing to the drug trade, while he and his wife and kids vacationed on Penang Island, Malaysia. The problem was, the abandoned restaurant where Jason & Co. had to set up shop had a completely broken air conditioning unit, meaning the temperature really rose while the friction between the various members of the team was too hot.
Left with nothing to do but watch their target on hidden cameras, Bravo’s surveillance turned into what Friends’ Ross might call a Day of Truth. Everyone learns, from Ray, that Jason offered to give up his trident in exchange for the rest of Bravo getting off the bench. Ray finds out that Sonny has been protecting Ben, the vet who played a role in Clay’s death. Omar criticizes Jason for being too soft and making questionable decisions, and Ray for being a poor “trainer” before he retired. And Sonny joins the Bravo 1 fight after learning about the whole trident thing.
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But the round of bitterness, finger-pointing, and mutual criticism comes to a halt when Drew — for once, if not 100% intentionally, to Bravo — finally acknowledges his past trauma. That’s right, when Sonny became closed off, Drew fled his wealthy family in search of a new family, as an operator. And Drew found that family, in the Echo team. That’s right, that Echo team, which we learned about mid-Season 1, was ambushed in Jalalabad. Drew wasn’t with his team that fateful night, so he lost his newfound family in one fell swoop. So he’s hesitant to get attached to a promising new family.
Bravo’s surveillance mission takes a turn when a storm that was supposed to ruin their video feed, just as some of the gang’s bad guys show up at the target’s motel and begin torturing him and his wife for information. And then their baby, who was sleeping down the hall, wakes up. Bravo locks horns, wanting to intervene in the water torture but is told by Davis to stop. But when the video feed goes missing, Jason decides to break into the house after turning off the lights and take down the thugs.
