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Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6 dropped on Sunday, November 24, 2024, on Paramount+, bringing more chaos to the Lioness team and their missions. The latest episode of the spy thriller raised the tension as the team dealt with the aftermath of their botched operation at the border, which left the team with serious complications.
Lioness season 2 episode 5 ended with a dumbfounded Joe after the Mexican human traffickers blew themselves up with a suicide bomber. However, not being able to save the children wasn't the only consequence the team faced in episode 6. On the way home, Joe realized that she was injured from the explosion, and it quickly became a matter of life and death for her.
Meanwhile, chaos ensued at the Carrillo estate as Josie tried to get her father to work with the CIA against his brother. With two exploding missions and one of their own facing life and death in episode 6 of the espionage thriller's second season, the rest of the Lioness grappled with a way forward, and discovering that there was a mole amidst didn't help.
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Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6. Reader's discretion is advised.
Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6 sees Joe injured from the explosion
The end of Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 5 set up the storyline for episode 6, especially where Joe was concerned. She was in the middle of a mission gone wrong in Shatter the Moon. The Lioness team, headed by Joe, tried to intercept the Mexican human traffickers at the border to help bring the children they found at the warehouse in Lioness season 2 episode 4 to safety.
However, everything turned bloody when a suicide bomber emerged from the group of traffickers, blowing the entire group and the children into smithereens. While Joe looked mostly unharmed, she was visibly shaken after the explosion, as seen at the beginning of Paramount+'s Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6.
No one from the traffickers and the children who were held hostages survived, and Joe began to second-guess her decision of trying to intercept the group at the border. She even asked Bobby if the girl could have survived had they not tried to save her.
After hearing what happened in the mission, Byron instructed Joe to return home, and it was when things took a turn for the worse for Joe. On the plane, Two Cups called on her personal phone, and when she reminded him that it was not a secured line, her fellow Lioness informed Joe that he couldn't contact her work phone. After hearing this, Joe checked on her other phone, which she found was broken.
Following this, she started to suspect that something wrong happened, and that was when she realized that something was wrong with her. She took off her vest to find that she had a gunshot wound. Joe then called Kaitlyn to update her about her injury and asked for a surgical response team, saying that there was no exit wound and that she suspected the bullet had clipped her liver because of the darker-hued blood.
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The co-pilot suspected that the bullet had also clipped a lung as her blood pressure and pulse were low. He then helped Joe do a needle decompression—inserting a needle into her pleural space to remove whatever air or fluid was trapped in there compressing her lungs. After the emergency procedure, the co-pilot excused for a bit, and then Joe called Neal, who was watching Charlie's soccer game. But when the co-pilot returned to check on Joe, she was unconscious.
At the end of Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6, Joe's fate after sustaining the serious injury looked still up in the air. Kaitlyn revealed that the bullet penetrated her liver, some of the fragments entered her lung, and that there was still no prognosis. At some point in episode 6, Kaitlyn said that she might lose her friend.
Chaos ensues at the Carrillo estate in Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6
As Joe dealt with the aftermath of the explosion from Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 5 and fought for her life on the way home, the second Lioness team was dealing with another mission that was not going their way.
At the Carrillo estate in Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6, Captain Josephina Carrillo, aka Josie, decided it was time to confront her father. But when she told her father that "they" knew about him and what he does, the Carrillo patriarch started slapping her. Cruz, who was with Josie at the estate intervened and laid all the cards on the table. Meanwhile, the rest of their group on surveillance started to intervene as well.
They round up everyone who was at the house, who, at the time, was only Josie's father and a maid. Two Cups then discover that the maid was wired and that she has contact with someone at the DEA—Gutierrez, the same agent working with Joe and the Lioness team from Lioness season 2 episode 4.
Now, that their cover was exposed, new security was going to arrive soon as the shift changed. They needed to act quickly and reinvent and execute the new plan. Meanwhile, Josie and her father ended up in a stare-off just before Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6 ended.
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Did the Lioness team discover a mole in Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6?
Still at the border, Kyle told the remaining Lioness team about his suspicions that Agent Gutierrez was a mole, to which Bobby replied that she wasn't surprised to hear it. When Tucker questioned him what he wanted to do, Kyle revealed that he wanted to bring the DEA agent with them back to the base, adding:
"I want to beat the truth out of this motherf**ker."
That's exactly what the team did—got him with them in the car back to the base. En route, the Tracer and Tucker unarmed him while Kyle talked about a law enforcement getting caught flipping. Meanwhile, at the base, they started torturing Gutierrez to get him to speak about his connection to the Carrillo estate and the maid.
While the DEA agent remained unfazed, Kaitlyn arrived at the base and started threatening his family, giving him a picture of what would happen to his wife and kids if he didn't cooperate. At the end of Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6, he revealed that the maid at the Carrillo estate was once his oldest son's nanny. He implied that he'd been surveilling Pablo Carrillo for years but discovered nothing that could implicate him or prove that he had a connection to the Mexican cartel.
While the team was forced to work with him in the past, they were not ready to take his words for the truth, especially because he was partly the reason why Joe was seriously injured. At the end of Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6, Kaitlyn instructed Kyle to polygraph Gutierrez to find out if he's telling the truth. If he failed the polygraph, she ordered them to throw Gutierrez in the river.
Catch Special Ops: Lioness season 2 episode 6, streaming on Paramount+. Previous episodes of the American spy thriller can also be watched on the platform with a subscription, with new episodes coming weekly on Sundays.
