OA had himself one awful day, did not he?
First, it was his new girlfriend, Gemma, on FBI Season 6 Episode 4.
Then, it was a wild card of a Muslim FBI agent who served as a funhouse mirror for Omar.
Let’s begin with the latter first, because it was the extra intriguing of the 2 storylines.
We can all agree that Gemma is a mistake that OA hasn’t acknowledged but.
Hassan, performed by English actor Elyes Gabel (Scorpion), had a chip on his shoulder. He felt that he needed to do extra simply to be accepted by the WASPS within the FBI.
As OA defined to Hassan, he noticed himself as an FBI agent, not a Muslim FBI agent.
They’re each seemingly fooling themselves.
OA cannot ever escape the truth that others will view him as Muslim. But there’s at all times going to be a place for somebody akin to Hassan who can go undercover as a Muslim at a second’s discover (though perhaps he should not have been utilizing his precise identify.)
Neither of those Muslim FBI brokers was at their finest on this case.
Thanks to Gemma, OA was in a temper from the beginning. It did not assist when the witness to the capturing described the shooter as having an accent like a terrorist when he meant Arabic.
Omar was appropriate when he identified that, even the rising home pressure.
Yes, having a Muslim terrorist has turn out to be a TV trope over the previous 20 years. But it was needed for this storyline involving OA and Hassan.
Still, OA did not need to be so intense to Hassan’s accomplice Jessica, who occurred to be Maggie’s outdated good friend from Quantico, who sadly was launched and largely ignored for the remainder of the episode. Why hassle with that storyline?
Oh, nicely. It wasn’t an episode that includes up-and-coming white feminine brokers. So, into the background they went.
It might have been worse. They might have been Scola, Tiffany, Jubal, Isobel, or anybody within the JOC who solely had a scene or two.
That’s the draw back of highlight episodes. They concentrate on one character to the detriment of everybody else.
Hassan might function a cautionary story for OA. If every thing hadn’t damaged proper for him, he too might have been that cliche of a Muslim secret agent making an attempt to infiltrate a terrorist cell.
Yes. Hassan was an object lesson of what to not do. For occasion, do not draw consideration to your self by staring on the visiting FBI brokers after which operating away as an alternative of fading into the background as a custodian ought to. Could he have acted any extra suspiciously?
Then, slightly than sharing all of the intel he had, he held again info, pretending to not know who Adil was after it turned clear that the teenager had killed the choose.
Hassan had good cause to be elusive as a result of he radicalized a shy, awkward child and transformed him into a zealot and a assassin.
Then, he tried to play the Muslim brother card and make Omar his accomplice in misadventure. OA allowed Hassan to redeem himself, however he stored making unhealthy selections.
Like placing that gun to his chin and pulling the set off to show himself to the cell mastermind. Sure, he might say he knew it wasn’t loaded the entire time, however that was nonetheless reckless, even when it did get him the positioning of the next assassination.
How did Asghar turn out to be a terrorist chief when some man off the road tricked him into revealing his plans?
And how might Hassan presumably assume that Adil would give up to him? Hassan made him a true believer and he obtained winged for his efforts.
Then, to seek out out that Hassan put the homicide weapon in Adil’s hand. That was the ultimate straw.
As OA identified, Hassan could not use his Muslim heritage to excuse his failure to rise throughout the bureau. He simply needed to work smarter. But it is seemingly too late for that now.
Now, again to Gemma. Everyone likes brilliant, shiny issues. But Gemma is somebody OA is woefully outfitted with whom to deal.
Yeah, opposites appeal to, however these two are too reverse. She’s uptown glitz and glam, and as a lot because the Egyptian boy from the borough desires to maintain up together with her, he is not outfitted to. He’s out of his depth.
Omar poorly dealt with Cate being killed on FBI Season 6 Episode 3. He wanted to offer Gemma a heads-up as quickly as she got here to the membership that they had underneath surveillance so she might make an excuse and depart.
Then, as quickly as attainable, he wanted to be the one who advised Gemma about Cate’s loss of life slightly than letting social media care for that. That’s no manner for her to seek out out about her good friend’s passing.
Now that she was already upset with him, he selected that minute to badger her about whether or not she makes use of medicine. He could not maintain that powerful discuss for an additional day?
It can be superb if this relationship had been someway repaired. OA must attempt tougher to seek out somebody he is extra simpatico with.
What do you consider philosophical OA?
Did Hassan have any good factors, or was he making excuses for his conduct?
Should OA try to patch issues up with Gemma, or ought to he transfer on?
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