2-3-4 Challenge Book Discussions #2 discussion

The ATF team wanted to continue the rescue without identifying Mercy as being an FBI agent. Did that make sense or was it illogical?

I thought the entire rescue attempt was not well planned and that their humanity was hiding somewhere apart from their brains.

I could see where they were coming from if the people in the compound hadn't figured out that Mercy wasn't an agent, then they shouldn't bring it to their attention. They didn't know the circumstances of Chad's death. Maybe he broke too many rules and Pete decided to get rid of him. Mercy bought the story about Chad waiting to pick up another vehicle and not coming back for a couple of days until she saw his clothes at Beckett's supply house.

At this point, I didn’t think it mattered. In fact, I believe she was safer with them knowing she was an agent. Once Chad was taken out, she was connected and expendable. Chad hadn’t done anything that merited being killed so I naturally assumed his cover had been blown.

I was confused with the rescue. It didn't make sense to hide the fact that Mercy was FBI. They killed Chad because he was ATF. Mercy couldn't be his girlfriend she had to be another undercover agent.

The rescue felt like a lot of equipment was on site but they didn't use it to their advantage. It didn't feel like Mercy was anyone's priority except Truman. Even Jeff and Eddie let me down.

I didn’t want to say that earlier because I was unsure if I’d captured it right but I was disappointed in Jeff and Eddie, too. They didn’t fight hard enough for Mercy’s interests.

Yes, this was a bit of a plot weakness, if the group had identified Chad as undercover there was no doubt they would have been on to Mercy. So hiding her identity was a mute point. Although maybe it was on the chance that somehow this hadn't happened, they maybe didn't know who the group was in outside contact with.

Definitely Jeff in particular should have fought harder for Mercy. But it made it more traumatic for the plot for Truman to be the one who found her. I'm sure in a real scenario the FBI wouldn't have given up so easily, they would have got the extra dog themselves and continued searching until they knew one way or the other what had happened to their operative.