shutuprob says:

I just finished watching season 1 of Quantico on Monday — let me say, I had figured out that the real terrorist was Liam by about episode 3 (it’s all about access, access, access to everyone involved and the only other person with that kind of access to everyone was Miranda, and it was never gonna be her), which was why I started falling behind in the second half of the season after — and I wasn’t pleased by Alex being recruited by the CIA. The show had already hung a lantern on the fact that she could no longer go undercover meant that she was less desirable to the FBI than she used to be — so being recruited by the CIA just defies logic to me because, again, she’s so high profile that such a move by the CIA doesn’t make sense even from a double-reverse hide-in-plain-sight perspective. She can’t be an Annie Walker, an intelligence-gatherer and because she’s the public face of American honor, American anti-terrorism efforts and whatnot, she’s a prime target. IMO, the only real jobs that make sense are her working her way up in an FBI field office, preferrably under Miranda or working at Quantico itself. It strikes me that she could be in a similar position to Mystique in X-Men: Apocalypse or Mark Watney at the end of The Martian, as a hero to the new generation entering their respective fields. With the only other realistic option being OPR — the Office of Professional Responsibility aka Internal Affairs. I suppose that *if* the CIA is recruiting her specifically to a project to root out who Claire Haas might actually be working with/for, I’d buy it, but short of that, if she’s being recruited for regular CIA work, this will just destroy its credibility faster than you can say “Prison Break,” or “Scandal” or, umm, “How To Get Away With Murder.”