Citadel Season 2 Episode 4 starts with Nadia bleeding on the floor. It becomes obvious that her injury was a prearranged ploy, the agents left to their own devices so she could escape while Hutch obtained the information they had come for.
Inside the facility, Hutch realizes that he has forgotten the password to the server room and is forced to brute-force his way in. He successfully downloads Edison’s files using the fingerprint of one of their previous targets. When he is finished, Bantam and Cash show up, but Hutch manages to trap them behind one of the facility’s movable walls and escape.
With the intel secured Hutch re-unites with Frank, Nadia and Celine and the group makes their escape in a waiting car. Cash almost gets the two but Hutch shoots him in the leg and Bantam continues the chase on his own.
Their escape takes an unexpected turn when they are forced to stop due to a road accident. Bantam has a great shot but stops when he sees it’s Frank. But it turns out that Bantam was also one of Frank’s marked targets and Frank has compromising photos of him with a prostitute in a hotel, dangerous leverage for a married man.
In the meantime, the team discovers that Edison is actually Yoo Ha-joon, one of the richest men in South Korea, and a former hacker who vanished from the public eye after making his fortune.
They think their next assignment will be Seoul, but Frank has a different destination in mind. Ha-joon and his wife are hosting the Greenpeace Annual Gala in Windsor in two days’ time, so it’s the perfect time to get in touch with them.
They finally meet at the rendezvous point, facing their shared history together. Orlick says Mason betrayed Citadel, while Mason blames Orlick for his father’s death. Orlick tells how a failed mission with false coordinates resulted in the deaths of 342 U.N. workers. “I did work with Dahlia, Mason admits, because the agency kept me from my wife, but I never intended for the agents at Citadel to be slaughtered.”
The clash lays bare their essential difference. Orlick confesses to terrible errors in trying to save others, but reminds Mason that his act was an act of vengeance that cost thousands of innocent lives.
They have a history but they agree that beating Braga has to come first.
Braga spends his time in France teaching chess to his son, and emphasizing the importance of protecting the king, a lesson that clearly echoes his larger strategy.
Meanwhile Frank is back in England and leaks Ha-joon’s real identity to Aparna. Orlick then explains the operation: they will kidnap Ha-joon before Braga can get to him.
The mission assignments are done. Hutch and Celine will extract the target, Mason and Nadia will extract him. Orlick and Frank will take care of it.
As you’d expect Braga gets the intel and immediately decides to go to the gala.
Mason and Nadia arrive at the event posing as a married couple; Hutch and Celine go undercover as waiters. Celine reveals her guilt of having a big secret about Ha-joon, and the tension builds as Hutch reveals she’d be in danger if she told.
Inside the gala, Mason and Nadia disappear into the crowd. Mason kisses Nadia to disguise them when a photographer almost catches them in a photo. Seeing Ha-joon brings back old memories and Mason admits he still has feelings for her.
Meanwhile, Frank and Orlick arrive in the tradesmen’s entrance disguised as caterers.
As the operation gets underway, Hutch and Celine work to slip a sedative into Ha-joon’s wife’s champagne, while Braga distracts Ha-joon from the crowd.
Then comes the biggest twist of the episode: Edison is not Ha-joon at all – Edison is actually his wife. This is the secret that Hutch and Celine have been hiding from the team.
Aparna ambushes Hutch and Celine in the washroom before they can finish the extraction, overpowers them and grabs Ha-joon’s wife and immediately contacts Braga.
At the same time Orlick admits he knows Frank has been feeding information to Braga. Orlick bribes him to become a double agent, rather than punishing him.
The mission falls apart when Braga kills Ha-joon. Nadia and Mason try to stop him but Mason betrays Nadia again. He tasers her unconscious, lies to Orlick that he has Ha-joon, and runs off with Braga and Dahlia.
Review of the episode
“Unreasonable” gives us one of the season’s best emotional twists when Mason’s latest betrayal of Nadia sends their relationship over the cliff.
And just a couple minutes after admitting his feelings, Mason goes back to manipulation over loyalty. This reaffirms all that Nadia’s ever thought about Mason. That love is a weapon, not a trust bond.
Their scenes at the gala are especially effective, as the mission requires them to act as husband and wife, while looking at the ruins of their real relationship. The chemistry is still there but so is the damage.
It also examines the destructive nature of revenge. Both Mason and Orlick attempt to justify the blood on their hands, but their confrontation reveals one thing: whatever their motivations, duty or vengeance, the decisions they have made have left permanent scars.
By the time the final scene arrives, “Unreasonable” has left every alliance in tatters and every relationship in question, setting the stage for what could be the season’s most explosive chapters yet.
