The net sum of this episode is 0, all things considered. At the beginning of the episode we are on a high-tension point and Sam manages to convince the hijackers to land the plane. He has another one of his schemes, this time involving the copilot of the plane who has been pretty sidelined the last few episodes. By some crazy coincidence, the copilot is fluent in Hungarian, which is the next country KA29 is supposed to fly over. Sam manages to get a message to the doctor in the back to convince the hijackers that they need to land to save the injured hijacker who is breathing through a pen. The most unbelievable part of the episode is how Sam is allowed to just wander freely throughout the plane with basically no consequence. He's handcuffed with zip ties, but earlier he was tied to the door and it's crazy that the hijackers have not tied him down at this point because he's such a wild card. He is able to deduce that the leader and the injured hijacker are brothers, and uses that to manipulate the leader.
Meanwhile on the ground, the Home Secretary enters the situation room, and it's not clear what's going on with the Foreign Secretary, but he treats her like a schoolchild rather than a peer Cabinet Minister. The hijackers are demanding the immediate release of two individuals believed to lead an international crime group. We have yet to hear anything from the mysterious PM so we have no idea how capable she is, but the Foreign Secretary is constantly treated like a joke. Speaking of jokes, Detective Daniel gets hoodwinked by the elderly mother of the hijacker leader and his younger brother. After detaining her, she tells him she "wants a tissue" and manages to give him, a veteran policeman, the slip. And this was the guy who identified the hijackers in the first place! We finally return to Dubai where a neighbor of the security lady calls the police when her son isn't able to call her daughter out to play. Turns out the "professional cleaners" just left the bodies in the bathroom! And they claimed that the bathroom was "easier to clean" earlier. More ominously, we see cleaners entering Sam's house, where his son is waiting for him to arrive. The good thing is that he does notice the gun so hopefully he has some sort of a plan like his dad. One thing we did not see in this episode was Sam's ex, she was nowhere to be found and not mentioned. In Hungary, we see troops massing to storm the plane and end the hijacking. But onboard, we see a different situation playing out where the other hijackers warn Sam that landing the plane would put all the passengers' families and the hijackers' families at risk. It's kind of ridiculous to think that this group has the capabilities to target over 200 families in the UK and other countries and not be detected, but that's what they want us to believe. Sam has a comical reaction "Why my family?" That feels more like a parody. Even the Home Secretary reads out the demands so oddly, it's more like a caricature. In the end the injured hijacker commits suicide to stop the emergency landing, and that's what happens. So at the end of the episode, we've had no movement. We may as well have skipped over Hungary and just shown the hijacker dying or killed him offscreen like that passenger earlier.
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