"She joined a terrorist group! She held a bomb in her hands!" Zoë shakes her head, just a little bit, horrified: "She stepped onto a crowded train, she triggered the bomb and ended her life, and the life of all those other people!" Daniel points out that they don't really know that for sure, but Amanda weeps and -- every bit as insistent as Joe w/r/t Tamara's still being in the Matrix, and for exactly the same reasons -- keeps insisting that it is true. Every word of it. And just like with Joe, Daniel can't help but give in, and betrays his daughter with a word, as she begins to cry.
"But not everything true needs to be announced to the Worlds on television!" Amanda cries, looping back around to how she didn't even know what she was doing, and she shakes her head, ashamed, but Daniel almost laughs at her: "You'd do it again," he says, because he knows her better than we do, so now we know her better. (Which is Thing Two again, but perfectly orchestrated.) She admits she'd do it again, and he shakes his head at her, terribly in love. She apologizes and he kisses her, offering to fix her wounds in turn. "Not a chance! I'll end up with my nose glued to my ear, are you kidding me?" They jump to the next space and he grins at her, sexy, and she offers him an afternoon frak. He points out that he's not really in shape for it, what with his gangster beatdown, but before he can really marshal a protest she's got him by the dick, like literally he just shuts off and stops talking, and they make love. And poor Zoë stands there over them and feels as awkward as it is possible to feel. (Angeli Thing Three, uncategorizably and unnecessarily uncomfortable sexual situations: Check.)
This blonde Youngblood woman with all the facial features is I guess Duram's partner, and she's loving the latest headlines about Amanda's massive frakup. Duram points out that she's probably just scared off the rest of the cell, and everybody out in the bullpen's getting very nervous and official as Director Gara Singh approaches, and Youngblood wonders what sent Amanda around the bend. Duram doesn't know, although as we know he was watching her run-in with Natalie Stark, which obviously was a contributing factor. Singh appears, scaring them both to death, and then shows them a VHS tape which he says was labeled "Starke" and not "Stark," and what's in there is an interrogation tape from last year where Youngblood actually had Ben in custody for being out after curfew, and asked him pointed questions about his backpack full of wires and detonators, which Ben says is for his model rocket club, which is why he was late home from school in the first place, and she eventually lets him go.













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