Lioness Season 2 Episode 2 recap: A new lioness has a dangerous past

As if almost getting killed during a trip to Mexico wasn’t enough, even bigger trouble awaits Joe in Lioness Season 2, Episode 2.

All systems are already in place Lioness season 2. We’re only one episode in and Joe (Zoe Saldaña) has already dealt with a kidnapping of a congresswoman that almost endangered her own life.

The new TV program won’t stop there either. It has a two-episode premiere to kick off Taylor Sheridan creation, and episode 2 goes some way to explaining why this is important.

Consider the stakes higher this time: a new lioness is involved against Joe’s wishes. But the choice may bring more danger than success… here’s a full recap of Lioness Season 2, Episode 2. Warning: Spoilers ahead!

Lioness Season 2 Episode 2: Fort Liberty wants fresh meat

We continue the action on Lioness Season 2, Episode 2, with Joe and Kaitlyn traveling to meet their superiors at Fort Liberty. At a board meeting, they discuss plans to bring a new Lioness to the team. They have a shortlist, but are in the process of deciding. This sends Joe into an absolute rage, claiming that only she gets to decide the team.

Kaitlyn catches up with Joe after storming out of the boardroom and confirms she has a new mission that “everyone will be watching.” Joe asks for three months to complete it, but she gets three weeks. On the way home to say goodbye to her loved ones again, she becomes equally concerned when her youngest daughter, who is giving away drawings on the side of the road, is led into a van by two strangers.

Joe goes to confront them, but the situation is seemingly harmless. At home, her eldest daughter Kate confronts Joe about the news report we saw in episode 1, with Joe reluctantly confirming that she saved the congressman. When Kate asks why Joe does the work she does, Joe tells a story about her grandfather at Pearl Harbor before replying, “So you don’t have to learn Chinese or Russian.”

Husband Errol admits this is the biggest concern he’s ever had about Joe’s work. She’s staying in the US this time, which only tells him something more serious is going on. She tries to comfort him before leaving and shares a tender moment in the shower.

Los Tigres’ goals are getting closer than ever

Back at Bliss, the full mission is revealed. Higher-ups are trying to figure out how to take down the Mexican drug cartel Los Tigres, which we met in Episode 1. It is run by a man named Alvaro, whose brother Pablo works as a lawyer in the United States. Pablo’s daughter Josephina just happens to be an American military wife… so who better to recruit for the Lioness team and take them out from within?

Annoyingly for Joe and the team, Josephina is stationed in Iraq, and Joe is tasked with going there and taking her on board, no matter the cost. The plan can only work if Josephina agrees to a public cover, which would result in her being completely discharged from the military.

If someone were to investigate internally, there may be no holes, but it would ruin the exemplary career that Josephina has built.

This is all to reach the real target, a Chinese agent “pulling the strings” of Los Tigres. Kaitlyn, Edward, and other leaders reconvene to address the dangers of the plan, with Edward ultimately signing off on it as the right thing to do.

The first meeting between Joe and Josephina is explosive

However, on the ground it is not easy. Joe arrives in Iraq and is immediately ambushed by local soldiers, ending with a dead American soldier and many wounded. When they finally arrive at FOB Sykes – where Josephina is located – she and Joe are immediately at odds. Josephina scolds Joe for not communicating the “amateur behavior” to the people on base, while Joe reveals her true identity.

She considers them the “highest-ranking person on whatever base she’s at” and needed a much more robust escort, and the entire team would have to be afraid of her being there.

Josephina suspects something bigger is going on and is pulled into an office to be questioned about her background. She claims to have never met Alvaro, but is only vaguely aware of her father’s ties to the cartel. When she finds out that Joe is leading the Lioness team, she is not happy.

Josephina is happiest on the field and claims she is not trained enough to be a lioness. However, they don’t want her due to lack of training – it’s all about her connections, besides the fact that she can fly a helicopter. When she refuses, Joe begins an awkward back-and-forth conversation about whether Josephina “loves her country.”

Holding out as long as she can, Josephina is exhausted in outwardly professing her love for the US, and so agrees to become a lioness. In the final scene, we see Joe asking Josephina to prove she doesn’t have tattoos – which is what got Joe in trouble in Season 1, Episode 1.

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