What happened in that warehouse

Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers for Lioness Season 2, Episode 4, ‘Five Hundred Children’.

Joe McNamara and his team’s mission becomes more complicated in Lioness Season 2, Episode 4, “Five Hundred Children”, after they make a shocking discovery in a warehouse in Mexico. The Paramount+ action drama TV show created by Taylor Sheridan revolves around a CIA program called Lioness, which recruits highly skilled women to infiltrate terrorist groups or any other organizations that pose a threat to the United States. In Lioness In the second season, the CIA recruits a new secret agent to take down a Mexican cartel working with China and the Ministry of State Security.

Captain Josephina Carrillo is the new Lioness of Lioness Season 2, but after episode 3, Joe is having a hard time trusting her. Episode 4 begins with Joe discussing with Kaitlyn Meade and Byron Westfield that Josephina lied to her about not knowing Spanish or about her uncle, Alvaro Carrillo, the leader of the Los Tigres Cartel. They suggest she recruit a shadow to keep an eye on Josephina. The only person Joe can trust to get the job done and who knows the Lioness program is Cruz Manuelos, Lioness from season 1. However, before diving into the main mission, the team joins forces with another agency in episode 4.

Why the CIA had to conduct this operation in Mexico

Every US Agency Wants a Slice of the Pie

At the beginning of Lioness Season 2, Episode 4, “Five Hundred Children”, Joe notices a car following her and asks Kyle MacManus to help her. After crashing the vehicle, Joe and Kyle handcuff the man inside, Gutierrez, and discover that he works for the Drug Enforcement Agency. The DEA is concerned about the CIA’s movements in Mexico, then, Gutierrez explains that he was covering for Joe. He offers his help in the mission to take down the Chinese-influenced Los Tigres Cartel, which means it is turning into a joint task force.

The CIA has to placate the DEA, Border Control and other US organizations (everyone wants to look good and get bigger budgets) after his stunt to rescue the congresswoman in Lioness season 2 premiere. As a result, Joe and his team must help Gutierrez reach a warehouse believed to be the cartel’s staging area, just south of the US-Mexico border. Unfortunately, what they find in the warehouse at the end of Lioness season 2, episode 4 is certainly not what they expected.

Cartels are trafficking humans, not just drugs

Lioness Season 2 Episode 4 Ends With Joe’s Team Making a Disturbing Discovery

THE Lioness The Season 2 characters thought they would find drugs in the warehouse in Episode 4. Instead, they discover women and children forced into human trafficking. Joe’s team manages to break into the warehouse almost effortlessly (with a lot of help from the airborne Josephina), and they are more than shocked when they see hundreds of terrified women and children inside.

It seems that the cartel not only smuggles drugs but is also involved in human trafficking. Unfortunately, there is nothing the agents can do to rescue them. However, Joe still puts a tracker on a young girl’s shoe so another team can save her later. Lioness season 2.

Why Joe made Josephina attack the Mexican police

They were probably working with the cartel

During the mission in Lioness season 2, episode 4, Josephina is (unsurprisingly) on air, where she works best. Joe orders her to shoot and kill the Mexican police who approach the scene. Josephina hesitates, of course, but Joe insists, and she has no choice but to do what her boss says. Josephina has to prove that she is not a mole Lioness Season 2, after all.

Josephina shoots and kills them all, exactly as Joe tells her to do. The Mexican police who approached the warehouse were not Federales, meaning they were local and probably owned by the cartels. If they got to the warehouse, Joe and his team would be in trouble, which is why Zoe Saldaña’s character orders the Lioness to execute them in Taylor Sheridan’s Episode 4. Lioness season 2.

What to expect from Lioness episode 5

Will Josephina’s true mission finally begin?

Now that the CIA, DEA and others know that the cartel is dealing in human trafficking and not just drug trafficking, their mission is much more complicated than before in Lioness season 2. The cartel threat continues to expand. making Joe’s team’s mission even more dire. After four episodes of Lioness Season 2 and the arrival of Cruz Manuelos, it’s time for the operation to truly begin.

Josephina’s meeting with her father was postponed in Lioness season 2, episode 4, but the next hour will likely feature the official introduction of his family. There are only four episodes left in the season and it’s time to kick things off. However, thanks to the events of Lioness Season 2, Episode 4, Josephina’s success is somehow even more necessary than it was before.