Keira Frost (Andrea Pavlovic) walks through the woods amidst armed men. Her wrists are bound. She is forced to her knees and a gun is placed against her head.
Keira remembers her abusive stepfather. She remembers running away from home, becoming a petty thief with Stevie (Michala Brasseur), and sitting at a briefing run by Ryan Drake (Derek Moran). Drake did not have a high opinion of her, or so he intimated. The mission was to recover some nuclear material at an abandoned Cold War site, but it went badly. Keira was captured and suffered waterboarding. And now she was to be shot.
The action is mediocre. As most of the action is from Frost's point of view, it should have been shown only view the headset cams that she was watching from the van, but that would have really limited the screentime of the other actors. As with the last outing, Drake and his team don't come off as professionals.
This half-hour short is an origin story for Frost. She appeared in Rogue Elements (2024), so this is a prequel. It is strange that we have an origin story for a support character before there is one for Drake himself. As for her background, it was too run-of-the-mill. Oh, she had a hard family life, dabbled in criminality, joined the Army where she was a problem soldier, and now she was on an elite black ops team. Okay. Typical girl. Not the background I expected for her. The conversations between her and Drake are bland and cliche.
There is a twist that makes the episode worthwhile. Just okay.
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