A threat to the academy takes a backseat to personal drama
Quanticois a show that traffics in shocking moments.
LILY VAN DER WOODSEN, PEOPLE!
And why exactly are we looking at a photo of Lily, a.k.a.
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But Im gettingwayahead of myself.
Lets start from the beginning of our academy timeline.
You want me gone, youre going to have to fire me, he tells her.
So when they get to the Lesson of the Week, things are just a bit tense between everyone.
What better way to break the mood than a lesson on racial profiling and hate crimes!?
He also tells her that Caleb keeps a file under his pillow.
Iris runs straight to the room to retrieve the file and then straight back to Shelby to show her.
So Miranda had asked Raina to pick Charlie up from their house and bring him to Quantico for safe-keeping.
But when they get there, they see dead bodies littered across the entrance.
As theyre fleeing, Charlie starts crying and saying its all his fault.
NEXT: Charlie, what did you do?
It turns out Miranda was right all along: Charliewasntkidnapped.
My small quibble with this: Wouldnt Charlie have been able to get these details without faking a kidnapping?
Like maybe by offering to bring his mom some lunch at work?
But he didnt, so now were here.
Shelby is outside with gunmen wandering in the woods.
Caleb, with Will in tow, sneaks out of the locked-down building and goes looking for her.
Caleb and Will find Shelby almost immediately.
After they have their moment, Caleb sees Liam is in the crosshairs of one of the shooters.
Before Caleb can warn him, a gunman aims at Liam…but Drew shoots the gunman first.
Drew followed Liam out because he didnt want him to be alone.
Aww, what a guy.
The HRT handles the rest of the shooters, and only one gets away.
Liam and Nimah drop Miranda off at her house, where Raina and Charlie have retreated.
Raina is about to head outside when the only shooter to get away from Quantico enters the living room.
Thinking quickly, Raina dials her sister, so she and Liam can hear whats going on inside.
He tells her that he may be able to meet that evening so they can get some alone time.
Alex uses the whole day to think about what she wants to use this alone time for.
A lot of us are not going to like her conclusion…because its break up with Ryan.
Thats cold, Alex.
(Her husband got greedy and went rogue with the kidnapping scam.)
Samir says after 15 years, she considers Shelby a true sister.
You and I…were nothing, Shelby spits at her.
You are as dead to me as my parents were.
You are as dead to me as theystillare.
Ice cold, Shelby.
(I was getting some seriousUnREALvibes from this speech.)
But thats not possible now.
Instead, Charlie shoots the terrorist.
Although he just saved his mother and Raina, Charlie sees this as his ticket to prison.
So instead of dropping the gun, he starts pacing and panicking.
The sniper outside sees a black male with a gun and trains his scope on him.
Miranda screams at Charlie to get down, that everything will be okay, but Charlie isnt listening.
Miranda decides the only way to get Charlie down is to shoot him herself.
Charlie goes to the hospital, where Miranda is obviously racked with guilt.
She goes to work to wait for it while Simon stays at home working on cracking the voice distortion.
First one of us that doesnt end up in jail or dead wins, he tells her.
Alex has a lab at the FBI check the pills, and theyre for blood pressure actually harmless.
Shes about to make the switcheroo when annoying Hannah comes and yells at her to get off their floor.
After all the subterfuge, Alex finally tries plan D: the truth.
Later that night, Adult A calls Alex and thanks her for doing what he/she asked.
But shes not with other agents.
She came alone to tell them she tried to track down Natalie.
What was that I was saying about Hannah being annoying?
I take it back shes kind of the best now.
And I think this means we can remove her from our suspect list.
Whats your suspect list looking like after tonight?
Throw your craziest conspiracy theories below, or find me on Twitter@realdalener.
