On a nearby desk, a picture of who else but Alex? It seems that while he’s preparing to infiltrate Point Blanc, Point Blanc is preparing to meet him halfway. In a parting scene, we visit Point Blanc in the French Alps just in time for some foreshadowing dialogue. He’ll be living with them both in their country estate. He becomes Alex Friend, son of billionaire Sir David Friend and his wife Lady Caroline, who already have one troubled teenager - now they have another. It’s all very mysterious and presumably high-level skullduggery, hence Alex needs a strong cover identity. Scarface wants to know if he hears any mention of Point Blanc, or “of us”. Martin confirms that the North Korean lead is just a red herring. Alex Rider season 1, episode 2 then helpfully checks in on the villains. Smithers goes through the CIA footage of Michael Roscoe’s death and raises the possibility of government-level access being required to set up a complex hologram of the building’s elevator to ensure that Roscoe stepped right into it. The moral ambiguity of the endeavor is also raised again, as though there’d ever be a scenario in which an intelligence agency running a child agent wouldn’t be a bit dodgy. Jones speaks with Alex’s interrogator, who once again goes over the fact that he seems to have been trained, just in case we missed it the first time. That isn’t in the school curriculum, is it?Īt home, Jack tries to talk Alex out of his mission, but he’s resolute - for Ian, more than the DSO. Blunt, reviewing the footage, learns that Alex has seemingly been trained to withstand torture. Jones arrives and refers to Daniels as Smithers (Nyasha Hatendi). He wants to know if he passed, having obviously figured out that the whole thing’s a test. Daniels from the Foreign Office, whose help Alex once again refuses. Who should turn up during Alex’s escape than Mr. While they’re debating it, Alex is able to pick his restraints and escape. Alex’s torture heads in a new direction as he’s soaked with pouring-down water and his captors take a moral stand against the whole matter of torturing kids. Jones with international exposure if she doesn’t reveal where Alex is - though apparently she doesn’t know either. He won’t spill any beans, so it’s back to the death metal concert, while Jack threatens Mrs. Since she keeps calling Alex’s phone, she becomes the next subject of his interrogation. She gets Alex’s computer password from Tom and finds the video of the warehouse cover-up and a business card for “the bank”. Meanwhile, Jack isn’t taking no for an answer. He’s pretty well suited to this whole tight-lipped spy thing, so his interrogators lock him in a room under the harsh glare of spotlights and play death metal at maximum volume, which is pretty family-friendly torture as such things go. That’s because he’s being asked a follow-up question: “What is Point Blanc?” Alex plays dumb. She tries to get in touch with him, but no luck. Tom, meanwhile, calls Jack looking for Alex, tipping her off to the fact that he’s not where he said he was. He’ll be alright.īut will Alex? Bloodied up, he’s told by an as yet anonymous interlocutor that he’s somewhere he’ll never be found, and things are not going to be okay unless he’s truthful in how he answers the question of who his uncle Ian worked for. Speaking of which, Alex isn’t given much choice in whether to hop into the blacked-out van that knocks him off his bike he’s chloroformed and whiskey away, leaving Tom to watch Yojimbo alone. Daniels cautions him that whatever he has to do, he needs to be careful and watch his back for other “interested parties”.Īt the DSO, some pretty clear tension begins to emerge between Blunt and Mrs Jones - the former wants the latter to be Alex’s handler, and while she tries to argue that agents have handlers, teenagers don’t, she isn’t given much choice in the matter. Tom arrives in the nick of time so that he doesn’t have to. He also provides some helpful background on the Department of Special Operations, which was founded in the Cold War and has been run by Blunt as a personal fiefdom that is unlawful but has also been untouchable until now - using a schoolboy in the field is obviously illegal and could get the department shut down, just so long as Alex spills what Blunt asked him to do. Daniels, who it turns out is from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and wants to help Alex by letting him know that Blunt allowed his uncle’s execution to happen. Alex gets pulled out of class for a meeting with a grief counselor, Mr.
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