In a move that can't possibly make Daniel happy, Hector and Lena remain at the service station while he drives off with the explosives to the drop point.

Hector tries to talk to Lena, but she can't stand him.

Valerie gets a call from an excited Joseph. He has a speech ready and is counting on Gerhardt not showing up.

Daniel is getting ready to deliver the goods and makes a great spectacle of the explosives for proof of their power.

When Hector tells Lena the money has to actually arrive at the other end, Lena leaves the station. Otto plans on stiffing the team. Hector looks at the laptop, calls the team and tells them to get Daniel out of there NOW.

Lena is calling her dad. She doesn't know what to do. They were stiffed. There is quite a car chase out there with pileups all over the road. Valerie is worried about Joseph, but Esther wonders if Joseph wasn't the one who warned Gerhard off payment in the first place.

Surprisingly, Hector takes Lena with him when he goes. She tries to give him money to make things even, but that's not what he wants. She's worried for her life, rightfully.

Everyone is piling up at the location of the van. Daniel admits to Otto who he is. Otto knows he's fucked. Otto didn't want to be feared anymore. He wanted to be respected, and that's what Gerhard promised him. She was the perfect politician.

Hector has Lena at the scene. He's telling her to run far and fast to get herself out.

Daniel is such a good person. He tries to talk Otto into testifying against Gerhard. He's so close, too.

Outside the van, Robert asks Esther to give Daniel more time. The police are itchy, trigger happy.

Daniel tries to use Lena to talk Otto into working with him. Hector has Lena on the phone. While Robert tries to stave off the German police from firing, Lena begs him not to do it. Otto wants Daniel out of the van so he can die. Daniel desperately wants Lena to live a life free of the carnage Otto himself suffered, and Otto was so close.

Hector grabs and attempts to comfort Lena who just saw her father die. Daniel walking out, aching with the failed attempt. Ester is disgusted to see Gerhard just bought herself another 5% of the polls.

Robert goes back to the office to find BB there, blaming herself. It was herself that the op went off the rails because she read Haynes into the op.

She says it was her intention to save their jobs, or Robert's job. Robert says he's too tired to be angry, but he's really disappointed.

When Robert gets home, Steven is there. He's not alone. He brough with him a top secret file for Station Chief eyes only. Who fucked up the operation? It wasn't Haynes. It was Steven. He translated into plain English and he's happy about it, telling Robert he did the right thing.

BB wants to know from Haynes exactly how far he'll go to protect Gerhard.

Joseph is waiting for Valerie in the stairwell of her apartment building. He wants to apologize.

Hector introduces Lena to Daniel and then introduces himself as Hector. CIA and ex-CIA. She doesn't realize the lengths they've gone to for her nor her father, but she needed to cry and lash out.

Steven wonders why the name of the arms dealer sounds so familiar. Robert tells him it's Hector. Amazingly, Steven has some good ideas about who might be funding Gerhard. A fishing scheme in Norway. Wanna take a trip?

Daniel doesn't want what Lena has been through to ruin the rest of her life. The two of them list the three letter organizations after her and how far they're willing to go to protect her.

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She's a woman who feels deeply and passionately, and after a horrendous accident took away the man she loved, she threw herself into her work.

What better way to remain solitary than to burst into a station, clean up a mess, make enemies in the process and blow back out of town just as quickly as you arrived?

But for what would seem to be a first for BB, she's opening up again.

Even though she coldly brushed off Robert both personally and somewhat professionally when he asked for her help with Noah, working closely with him and then finding her way to his bed had a far more profound effect on BB than she expected.

She spent the better part of a day whisked back to her past in memories she found very difficult to recall, and they weren't brought up because of similarities to the case they are working.

No, the feeling she is recalling is how well she worked with a partner, someone who understood her and on whose level she worked so well her work and private life felt as one entity. All I can see is working with Robert is having that same effect on her.

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Even though they haven't been together long, they understand and support each other with a high degree of trust. It's a natural relationship, and those don't come often in jobs like they have.

Meeting Steven Frost and feeling his desperation (yes, I said it again and will continue to say it) at wanting back into the game, so much so that he'd support whatever Ambassador Haynes wanted to do even if it meant seeing his former second in command shipped away if BB failed, clarified Robert's position to her.

He might have had something special with Steven, but even Steven didn't have the confidence in Robert that BB has in him in such a short amount of time.

BB's refusal to speak in front of a civilian about CIA business tickled me, and her chat with Steven to stay out of business he not only has no right any longer to be in but not enough information to weigh in with any amount of understanding also pleased me.

BB: Stop trying to play the good guy. You don’t do it nearly as good as you think.

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Steven is only standing on Haynes coattails because he wants to be relevant again, not because he cares about what's happening or the people who are currently fighting the battle. That was evident in the way he flippantly told Robert to ask his boss why he wouldn't be taking her place if she got shipped back to Langley.

His attempt to rip holes in their relationship didn't work, though.

The way Daniel and Hector are working Lena and Otto is admirable. 

Daniel: Your father doesn’t teach you? He keeps a weapon but doesn’t teach you how to use it. He plans an attack but doesn’t let you in on the target. Your father doesn’t trust you.

Lena: You don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Daniel had a feeling Lena wouldn't be able to hurt anyone with a gun she didn't even know how to use, but for a second there, I had visions of things going horribly wrong when she had the defunct gun aimed at a guy. If he'd lunged at her, she could have found out the hard way how worthless a gun could be.

But Daniel is a good judge of character and bet correctly. He saved her from herself, let the guy walk, and gained a bit more trust in Lena along the way.

Lena was incredibly confused. She didn't feel she had the trust of her father but still wanted to know the plan. Daniel was tearing her in two directions. You don't want to be a part of this, but damn, your dad is cruel for not telling you about his plans.

Otto was getting similar treatment from Hector, who called him out on his treatment of Lena as a not only a non-trusted source but no better than a dog. I was wondering what the hell was going on with Otto, too, but apparently, he just wanted to save his girl the grief of knowing ahead of time death was coming.

It's an odd state for a man ready to kill so many to think so kindly about his daughter, so thoughts like that never cross my mind. But having those thoughts and being so close to Lena makes for a far more complex villain and one more interesting than a one-note character and killing machine.

With the news delivered that the first and second blasts would be delivered by way of a bomb on a bridge that would kill everyone on it (from what I could gather), Daniel and Hector had enough news to report back to BB.

And BB, finally, could stop lying about what they were doing and let Haynes in on their operation. He could have been pissed, but BB handled it well. Hey, dude, you said we couldn't touch the election. What was I supposed to think? Or something along those lines.

She was right. Maybe the right back home wanted the right in Germany to do whatever it took to get the job done. BB even left making a move to stop the bombings in Haynes' hands. By this point, he's letting her hold it in hers. If it all falls apart, she's out of there sooner rather than later.

BB had already come to her conclusions about Robert and let him back into her world. She stopped giving him the cold shoulder after they slept together and even met his son as Robert's boss, making things much easier between Robert and Noah.

So when Haynes gleefully said if it all fell apart BB would be on the first plane back to Langley, she said Robert is off the table. I need a gif of her spinning on her heel and walking away instead of shaking his outstretched hand to seal the deal.

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I'm not numb to the fact Valerie went off book to shred Emmerich's file and get a little closer to the man, but I think it's to keep him on a short leash. They don't know for sure he's clear of the action based on what April learned, nor do they know he won't be a key figure going forward. 

He's into Valerie, and well, Emmerich is an attractive man who isn't afraid to treat Valerie well while she's on the case. Is it wrong to get so involved? Yes. But I'm not ready to slap her hand away quite yet. Not until I see it going too far. 

What do you guys think of everything that went down? Were you surprised to see it was love that drove BB to her station whisperer reputation? Is Valerie in trouble? Will Otto successfully plant the first two bombs before they stop him?

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She fears separation, abandonment, and loss. It doesn't seem possible that whatever the woman does will cure her fear so simply, but I recognize the actor clanging on the triangle who calls BB a very special leaf.

She falls while running and sees a big eye painted on a wall. Everyone is watching.

Haynes and Steven are talking. BB approaches and the two station chiefs meet for the first time.

Haynes is pissed off because BB isn't following his orders. Steven is more than happy to do whatever Haynes says, but BB has no interest in speaking in front of a civilian, especially one who was forced out of his office.

Steven's head pops up, though, when Haynes threatens to send BB home with Robert right beside her.

Daniel meets with Esther about the sale and gets a call from Lena. They have a problem with the buyer.

BB meets with Steven to tell him to stop trying to get his foot back into the door by crushing whatever they're doing. He balks and has no intention of stopping.

While at the track, Hector is discovered and urged to go with a fellow.

Daniel tells Lena Otto doesn't trust her, and she gets irked.

While Emmerich has been helping Valerie, he's getting antsy about going to quite the lengths she's asking.

BB was working a case trying to get a cult leader. When they test their beads communication, he asks her to marry him after promising he'll never leave her.

Hector was brought in by Esther.

Daniel couldn't bank on Lena not shooting anyone, so he took the coil out of her gun. When it came time to kill, she couldn't do it, so he replaced the coil and pretended to do it for her.

She realizes she probably needs a way out of her situation.

Emmerich wonders what Valerie found in her background check. She tells the truth: Her background check found nothing. She doesn't admit to what April might have found with him leaving his phone outside.

Valerie attempts to cut Emmerich loose, but when that's placed on the table, he asks to see the card reader again.

Robert wonders why BB has been laying into everyone, and she tells him about Frost. Robert is surprised, but BB wants to push through so they come out on top making Frost look like the pile of shit he is.

Robert's kid got into trouble at school. He's having trouble accepting his dad's job responsibilities. BB says she can't help.

In 2010, when BB is in another session, the woman cuts too close to home. BB cries when the woman says she hides behind a childhood nickname. The woman says she must stop hiding behind the lies or the darkness will follow her. Their plan goes into motion and BB switches the beads, but part of it is true…

When Lena confronts her dad, Hector wants a word with Otto. Hector doesn't want Otto treating Lena like a dog. She's either in or she's out.

Joseph successfully gets the card read and wants to know when he'll see Valerie again. She's quiet as April is beside her. What's she thinking?

Steven is at Robert's place when Robert gets home with Noah. The two argue about where things stand at the station. When Robert calls him a corporate shill and a has-been, Steven walks out and tells Robert to ask his boss why he won't be taking her place when BB is sent home.

BB remembers a terrible car crash that killed her fiance, and after crying it out goes to see Robert and Noah to support his fake career.

Valerie shreds documents before visiting Emmerich.

She tells him she destroyed his files. Then he gives her the bigger glass of wine. That was nice.

Valerie kisses Joseph Emmerich.

BB's reputation began in 2010 when she "reassigned" Susan, the spiritual guru, who was a CIA operative of some sort.

BB goes to see Haynes to tell him what they learn about the terror attack after Otto lets Lena in on the plan. A bomb on one side of the bridge to send people running to the other side only to explode over there, too.

Since he said not to touch the election, what did he expect her to do?

He says he's not touching this with a ten-foot pole, but if she fails, she's out. She says Robert is off the table. He attempts to shake her hand, but she turns her back on him and walks out the door.

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Despite having a massive wine cellar at his disposal, Hector claimed to be three months sober on Berlin Station Season 2 Episode 2. I believe he was not only abstinent from alcohol but his incredibly addicting life as a thrill-seeking CIA agent.

That's all in the wind now, thank GOD.

Could Hector have lived his life in Spain without the thrills and chills he had been rushing on for so long?

He didn't seem to be doing too badly. Nestled in the middle of nowhere with a house that met his every need (gorgeous naked woman included), Hector seemed content. 

Hector knows his limitations. He knew if he got involved again he'd get involved again. While he can live without it, but when a situation presents itself, it's hard not to press in there. His restraint was notable, however.

At first, he had a hard time remembering Andrew Chevalier. Or he didn't want to remember him. Once Daniel started him down that path, it was easy to get back into a character he hadn't played with in ten years. 

What "Right Here, Right Now" did very well was play to Hector's strengths, which also happen to be the strengths of Rhys Ifans. They can both take charge of a scene so what might have felt like a calm and idyllic dinner initially is quickly overtaken with wild bursts of flavor not already on the menu.

As both Daniel and Hector tried first to seal the weapons deal with Otto, then to discover his terror plan, they were both working Otto and Lena Ganz. Unbeknownst to them early on, though, Hector had the upper hand because Otto was trying to impress Hector.

As a man who was rarely told no, he was enjoying the challenge Andrew Chevalier provided. And while Armando's initial reaction when the fire was lapping at Otto's feet was to release the valve, Daniel knew from Lena to increase the pressure.

The discussion between Hector and Otto, as a result, was a lot of fun.

Not only did we learn why (on two occasions) Otto was buying into whatever the group he belonged to was selling, but that he was going to not necessarily wage a terrorist strike to swing the election, but to start an all-out war.

Hector: They really sold you a fairytale, didn’t they, Otto. Something new, something pure. Well, I hate to be the one to tell you this, Otto, but it’s all shit. Alt-right, alt-left, they got you marching to the same familiar fuckin’ tune. They let you believe you have the power to change your fuckin’ nation but it’s an illusion, Otto, it’s an illusion.

Otto: The pendulum is swinging.

Hector: The pendulum is swinging. Fuck me! Wake up, Otto! Open your eyes! Nothing ever really changes. Democracy rises, Communism falls. Communism rises, Democracy falls. It’s the same shit in different coats. The only thing that brings around true revolution is war.

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And can I please tell you how happy I am to hear "alt-left" from one of my favorite characters? Ah, God bless Berlin Station for giving me the opportunity to make that quote a "thing" when I've been rebuffed so many times for using the phrase in reviews. 

I can die a happy woman. 

I hate the alts. And while I realize neither of the alts was used in flattering content by Hector, that he was trying to take the biggest swing at Otto as he possibly could, it still made me smile.

It was a bummer Lena called Otto on his drinking because like Hector, I could have listened to the two of them talk about that stuff all night.

What was completely unexpected was "the goon" Armando being the son of someone important, at least a member of the BfV. Esther wouldn't be running her own son, right? Surely that would be against policy. 

Daniel: Holy shit. I gotta call this in.

Hector: Shut up. That Hitler Youth guy’s in there takin’ a crap or something.

Daniel: Armando?

Hector: Yes.

Daniel: He’s BfV. Esther Krug is running him.

Hector: What? And you brought him to my doorstep?

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I don't know what other kinds of agents or government officials might work out of The Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, but Armando's credentials were blown by using his sim card to call his MOM.

Hector figured out fairly easily the Hitler Youth (haha!) was banging Lena, but that didn't stop Lena from turning on the kid when she saw that sim card. The best thing about the fallout of his using it was it proved how much Otto trusted the two men he was getting into bed with.

He wouldn't have done what he did in Chevalier's house if the trust wasn't sealed. But he didn't share with them what he found out about the kid, so now the four of them all hold pieces to Armando's "puzzle" that is going to get them into a heap of trouble.

When Otto kissed Lena and told her he loved her, it reminded me of when a mob boss knows he's sending someone off to be killed. Was he expecting Lena to get caught in his tiff with Armando? How much does his daughter mean to him?

She wasn't in danger for long, and I laughed out loud when the gang caught up with him racing along the dirt road. First of all, anyone who plays driving games knew Lena was going catch him eventually. But Hector's commentary was the winner:

Hector: Nice parking!

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Whether Esther is Armando's mother or not, he must have been out of touch with reality for a long time. Otto said he had been with him "forever," and if Armando thought someone was going to cover his ass after he started spouting stuff like "I'll tell everyone" the truth, he must have been crazy.

My initial thought is this can't end well for Hector. He's been in hiding and isn't exactly going to be greeted with a ticker tape parade. He also just killed someone's son who could identify him.

However, he's also back in it to save the world and has Otto to blame for his indiscretions. Things could turn around by the end of Berlin Station Season 2. Maybe what happens in Europe stays in Europe.

As for the storyline, if you've been paying attention, the right dominated in the recent 2017 German elections. I didn't follow them, nor do I know if the agenda the right used to win was similar to what Otto was feeling.

Otto's word, though crude, probably aren't all that different than what some alt-right groups in the US considered during our 2016 election.

Daniel: What the hell are you doing?

Hector: He trusts me. I can be useful.

Daniel: You’re out of your mind.

Hector: I’ve been out of it too long. It’s going to be just like the good old days, right Trevor?

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No matter where you sit on the topics, if you take the time to listen, you can hear the despair of groups of people losing their heritage much in the same way newer groups coming into a country are trying to find ways to share and celebrate theirs in their new home.

Their thoughts don't begin as evil, but when history starts being erased or draped in shadows of darkness and one group of people lose what they feel is their identity while others' find theirs celebrated, tensions rise. 

Nobody has found a good answer to stop the alt groups from preying on the fears these groups of people on both sides have or how to ensure a melting pot can exist again, but the feelings aren't affiliated with any one country or group.

And until there is less finger pointing and more two-way communication, possibilities like what's erupting on Berlin Station could become a reality. Do we have enough agents like Daniel with rogues like Hector to help us fix our mistakes?

Are you as glad as I am that Hector is back? Was Rhys Ifans on fire? Do you think Daniel and Hector are the perfect partnership? Who is Armando's mother? 

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Hector is a little bit concerned not only because he doesn't want to get back into the game but because he can't remember his Chevalier backstory.

Lena is directed by Otto to run a background check on Andrew Chevalier.

Once Daniel gets started on old-time stories with Hector, Andrew Chevalier is awakened for storytelling just before he passes Otto's test.

Otto, though, wants to work only with Andrew. Andrew takes offense, reminding Trevor of his place in their business partnership and while Andrew may have passed Otto's test, Otto has by no means passed scrutiny with Andrew. God, I love Rhys Ifans.

They all have to wait around for a person to drop by from the nearest town 25 miles away. Otto has arranged for his test to be passed. Cash arrives in the amount of 100k Euros. 

Daniel and Hector talk amongst themselves. Hector isn't pleased with the whole situation, but Daniel gets him with the "you're in hiding" bit.

Hector and Otto drive to the next spot together while Hector tries to reel in Otto.

Lena is worried about Hector and the whole thing going south when she's the one who introduced Daniel to her father. Daniel assures her it's alright.

I still have no idea who the other guy is. 

Hector drinks again, something he hasn't done for a while. 

Hector cannot believe Daniel brought one of Esther's people to his doorstep. He'd rather trust Otto Ganz than one of Esther's guys. He's proven right when they go into the bathroom and Armando wants to switch out sim cards to call someone. His call? To his mother. WTF?

The gang hits a bazaar and Daniel makes a phone call to Robert who wants him to get Otto talking about the target. Armando walks off with Lena while Otto buys oranges at every stand.

Lena returns but no Armando. Hector offers Lena to drive with him. Literally driving. Hector tries to get Lena to talk about the plan. 

Despite only buying oranges, Otto has a bag of many different vegetables.

Hector shares with Daniel they have a problem with the goon. He is, of course, right. 

Hector invites Otto and friends to stay the night. While Lena is swimming with the goon, she finds his "hidden" sim card. That's an interesting turn.

Hector gets Otto going. Alt-right, alt-left, it's all the same. The only thing that will ever bring around change is war. And that's when Otto admits he's going to make the first shot. 

Lena worries her father is drinking too much, getting loose-lipped. She also worried about Hector because he challenges her father. He doesn't say yes and it makes Otto want to impress him. 

Armando doesn't want to push Otto, but after talking to Lena, Daniel wants to push as hard as he can. 

Lena shares with her dad where the sim card called. The Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution. He already knew. He tells Lena he loves her very much and gives her a mob-like kiss.

Outside on the patio, Otto apologizes for getting Andrew and Trevor involved with "this" and stabs Armando in the side. Armando then takes Lena hostage, gets the money, gets into the car and takes off.

With the others in pursuit, who the hell knows what is going to happen?

Anybody who plays driving games knows whatever Lena was driving is a better car on dirt roads than what Armando is driving. Armando parks poorly, runs and when he threatens to come clean about Andrew and Trevor, they go in for the kill.

When Otto walks up, he begins smashing him in the face with a hammer, removing his teeth. He doesn't want him identified. They put him into the car and burn it. In what must be a kind moment, Otto gives some of Armando's teeth to Lena.

In the morning, Daniel is awakened suddenly. He looks at the safe and the briefcase, believing Hector is gone. Instead, Hector is outside. He's back in the game.

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There was never a lot of emotional baggage or wasted scenes before, and Berlin Station Season 2 Episode 1 jumped right into the fray of the latest operation in Germany.

An alt-right political candidate intends to win in her run for office, and she'll ensure her victory by taking on a violent partner to…swing the election? I'm not sure, but I like the possibilities.

There are quite a few new faces in Berlin. BB Yates is the new station chief. She's brought in when things have gone so bad they need somewhat of a cleaner to get things working right again.

I would have thought she would be a play by the rules type of gal, but if she has rules to live by, she appears to have written her own book. That became apparent when she was playing along with another new face, Richard Hanes.

Hanes is an ambassador and voice for the president. From what he was saying, the president wants things to roll smoothly for the alt-right candidate, Katarina Gerhardt. Something about that doesn't sit well with viewers, nor does it sit well with Yates and Robert. 

Robert was practically turning inside out in his skin while Yates assured Hanes everything was going to be fine, just fine. They'll do whatever the president wants. Then she told Robert afterward he needs to pay a little better attention because she was blowing smoke up Hanes' ass.

Like any skilled intelligence operative, she'll make nice with the people above her and then do what she thinks is right for her station. There wouldn't be intelligence if their only job was to do exactly what they were told.

Yates and Robert are already finding a working groove that feels better than how things ended between Robert and Steven Frost.

Steven is still not sorted out. He hasn't been fired, but he doesn't appear to have a functioning role within the CIA, either. Hanes offered him a job spying on Berlin Station, and unless I've lost my own ability to sniff out a rat, Frost is a rat.

Frost wasn't pleased to hear a "bull" was brought into to fix the mess he'd already made of the station. What kind of a buffoon would admit he'd left the place in such utter disarray? 

It's the best place to be, I guess, when being recruited to spy on the group you left behind. Was he ever a good spy? His conversations with Robert left little to the imagination. From assuring Robert he'd told Hanes to stick the job offer up his ass, his next line of questioning was nothing but alarm bells.

Frost just finished saying Robert was the very best. Why would he suddenly be willing to turn on his new station chief and give up information about current ops to Frost?

Frost is a desperate man. I can imagine at some point this season he'll be on the wrong side of Berlin Station and wishing he'd made any other decision than the one I think he's already made.

With Yates came April. She's a young agent willing to do just about anything to get ahead. While she seems competent, she took a chance that put Valerie onto the radar of Gerhardt's top advisor. He knows where she lives.

He only knows about Valerie because she had to put herself into his line of site to keep April safe. Could they have waited five minutes and tried again? As it happens, yes. Joseph Emmerich was only dropping off some papers. Valerie not vacating made more of a mess than necessary.

Oddly, I liked Emmerich. Even while standing in front of Valerie, his threats weren't as I'd have expected. Maybe he'll be vital in helping bring down Gerhardt. If so, then I'll apologize to April and her first mission snafu.

The meat of Operation Stop Gerhardt lies with Daniel. 

Daniel is deep undercover as Trevor Price. The team has already discovered the man who will be helping Gerhardt with her violent tendencies, and his name is Otto Ganz. 

Much like Philip Jennings on The Americans, Daniel has taken on a new identity to get in with Otto's daughter so Trevor can get close to Ganz. The hot guy always has an in with the young daughter, right?

There was a lot of discussion about how far the team needed to be willing to go to get Daniel what he needed to prove to Ganz he was the guy he needed on his team, and it's a conversation I'm sure happens every day in government. 

Robert: So how is Daniel supposed to convince Ganz he can provide him with weapons if he can’t put them in his hands?

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While there are no easy answers, in this case, Lena Ganz admitted she had no money to pay for the guns Daniel curated, so they went nowhere. That's not likely to happen again as the story progresses.

What I'm most interested in now is what kind of violence could help secure Gerhardt the election. Top on my list is Ganz and friends acting like a group of left-wing crazies and shooting up the town, somehow proving the need for a woman like Gerhardt in office.

Typing that proves how little I know of German politics. The exact opposite would hold true between the right and left in America. Any gun violence would propel the left into position rather than make the right look like the clear winner.

There isn't any violent scenario in connection with an election that makes any sense to me. What about you guys? Are you latching onto a plan that is escaping me?

Even if getting the guns was a test for Lena, it's inherent to the overall plan. It has to be, or else Trevor Price wouldn't have brought in his old friend Andrew Chevalier.

Daniel: I need you to listen to me very carefully. Twelve years ago in Chechnya, you created the identity of a gunrunner named Andrew Chevalier, and I need you to wake him up right now.

Hector: How did you find me?

We’ll get to that later. The people behind me will kill us if you don’t play along. My name is Trevor Price. Look pleased to see me, maybe you can go so far as to hug me. Just don’t fuck this up.

Hector: If they don’t kill you, I will.

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I was wondering how they were going to bring Rhys Ifans back into play, and his entrance couldn't have gone any better. Ifans and Richard Armitage have such a great working relationship on screen that the loss of that duo would have been an incredible shame.

Who knows how long Hector will be around? Living the quiet life in the middle of Nowhere, Spain can't possibly suit him. He's going to have an itch scratched that will bring him back into the fold in some way or another even if he made more of a mess of his agency than Frost made of the station.

Berlin Station is back and firing on all cylinders. The new characters made themselves at home instantly, and the action began without a hitch. There is no doubt this now seasoned spy drama will be as good as or better than its freshman season.

What did you think of "Everything's Gonna Be Alt-Right"? Hit the comments with your thoughts on the premiere, the new characters and the return of Hector DeJean!

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He enlists two others to help him get rid of the body. He says he got overzealous when a deal went bad and shot the guy in the head. Oh, he's taking the rap. Interesting.

At the station, BB Yates is giving everyone a briefing while concurrently Katerina Gerhardt is holding an election rally. Yates says Gerhardt and Ganz are in league to swing the election by a significant victory. They plan on doing so violently. Otto Ganz and his daughter are the two who helped Daniel dispose of the body.

Yates is called the Station Whisperer. She was brought in to get the station a win. 

Richard wants the station to stay out of the way of everything when it comes to the president. Yates plays along and allows Robert to think she's going along with Richard's demands. Yates has no desire to do so.

Daniel wakes up as a bit of a hostage. He's deeply undercover and now a part of the Ganz team. He's in with Ganz's daughter.

Richard and Steven Frost have a chat about the new regime with BB Yates and Robert. Richard wants Steven to keep his job and work in a super private intelligence group. Maybe spying on Berlin Station? 

Lena Ganz returns and finds Daniel is still there. They leave to create some havoc out in the city. When one of Lena's friends pulls out a knife while nearing some Muslim women, Daniel pulls a teenage moment, trashing the store but keeping the woman and her child safe.

Yates is pulling in April and Valerie on a super risky operation. Valerie hesitates because of her full schedule, but BB is adamant. 

Daniel makes contact with Robert. He needs assault rifles and ammunition to impress Lena. Esther can't believe anybody wants to provide that to the alt-right, but Robert says it's obviously a test. How else will Daniel get to meet Otto Ganz?

Frost needs to make a decision about his future. He's watching video of Katarina Gerhardt, contemplating calling Richard about the secret intelligence job.

Daniel gets his gun delivery. He takes Lena to play with them. She enjoys them. Of course, she has no money. It was a test. She just needed to know if he could get what he said he could get. 

It's time to meet her father. The father Daniel now knows from two different sides. 

Valerie and April have been watching a house and once the inhabitant leaves, April breaks inside. As soon as she's inside, someone pulls up to the house. April won't get out, so Valerie has to think fast. She starts walking around the house looking for April, her dog or cat. The guy walking into the house comes out of the gate to help. 

He seems very nice and offers to help her. It was Katarina's political advisor. If anything happens to her, he takes over.

When Steven chats with Robert about the job he was offered, Robert knows straight away that Richard Hanes was offering Steven a job to spy on them. Even though Frost says he told him to fuck himself with a pointy stick, his line of questioning afterward indicates he's already on the payroll.

Daniel is in the room with Otto Ganz. Otto tells him to leave when Daniel won't admit who he works for. Apparently working for yourself isn't good enough these days.

Lena says when he says no, he means no.

When Valerie gets to her door, Joseph Emmerich is there. He wondered why an American woman was outside the house of Katerina Gerhardt two weeks before the election. He gives her his card and leaves.

Daniel stomps back into the room with Otto Ganz. He has a guy. 

Daniel's guy is in Spain. Everyone piles into their cars and makes a day of it. 

Daniel knocks on Hector's door and asks him to get into character or they'll both be dead.

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