Lets get to know em, shall we?

Sometimes spy-babies just have to learn to take care of themselves.

And right away, he gets a nice little summary of it from a stranger on a payphone.

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It ends with this fun little salutation: You have no idea whats coming for you.

But the man calls back to tell Tom to meet in Washington Square Park.

Waiting for him there is Howard Hargrave (OQuinn).

He also repeatedly yells at him to stay under the trees: They cant see you under the trees!

#spygames) to get a name out of him: Leland Bray.

NEXT:No explosions 30 minutes before swimming… And I always love a pair of begrudging partners.

Tom asks him how the stomach is.

Slightly scarred, Solomon shoots right back, but just as beautiful.

The plan to get to Bray involves getting to his girlfriend, a Romanian Olympic Swimmer.

Its when the team gets Nadia back to headquarters that things seem to go haywire.

Tom loses focus long enough for Nadia to grab his gun and make a run for it.

She jumps out of a window onto a moving truck and…

Somehow were suddenly seeing the world from her point of view on Dumonts screen.

Because it was allACT-ING!

Between this and the plane simulator, theRedemptionpremiere sets a high bar for zany twists.

Well… not exactlystraightto him.

Its likely where hes keeping Anna.

Only problem: another, even fuller security detail.

In what is becoming a bit of a theme, Tom has some ideas about tunneling.

Thats right her hot son she doesnt know is her son (probably)!

She has to finally have him declared legally dead so that the company can be fully in her trust.

All together now: NO THANK YOU, MOM.

Are these characters feelingredeemedto you yet?

Once theyre through the tunnels, Tom immediately finds Anna and is able to get her out.

Rowan and Solomon figure out that Bray must have tasked her with taking out their former CIA team.

But Solomon slides a phone to her and she hears that her son really is safely away from Bray.

And its hard to know what to believe.

Could Scottie really bethisgood, Tom wonders.

As she signs the papers to have Christopher officially ruled dead, Tom meets with Howard once more.

Its the apartment of a crazy man Howards apartment.

He says he made finding Christopher his lifes work, and in doing so he uncovered something much larger.

No pressure, kiddo.

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