My Own Worst Enemy: Love in All the Wrong Places

Janus is a strange company. Things are totally not okay to do…unless you know, they're okay to do. Running rogue missions are definitely acts of treason, unless well, they're just totally cool with it in the end. Hey, I didn't know that it was fine to stray from the reservation as long as you just had a really really good reason. I just saw Edward go rogue to find out who killed his parents, and that transgression was forgiven because, hey – it's revenge. And now, in "Love In All The Wrong Places," Raymond and Henry fudge up their communication lines so that they can head off on a rescue mission against Tromboll's orders. In the end, it was fine. Mavis makes it clear to Henry that they went against orders, and then says "thank you" – since it was her ex-flame that they wound up rescuing. This secret spy op center runs their ops like a soap opera and it makes it a little hard to buy Janus as anything by a strange Dr. Frankenspy experiment center that sporadically helps keep the country safe from foreign enemies.

It was nice to actually see Edward make a promise to the American hostages in Congo. It wouldn't be hard to imagine Edward just blowing right past them, because he only had one mission - to kidnap the Congan Warlord, Serge Kubako (Bill Duke). It was a nice surprise to see him caring about anything else, given his previous nature. In fact, it was so out of place that I'd much rather chalk it up to character evolution than mere contradiction. But Edward did make a promise to return and free them, and Mavis, all full of nostalgia and regret over her lost love, sends him along his way to do it. The action in this episode was decent, but it still followed the same format. Meaning that it opened with Henry in a dire situation and then flashback to see just how this predicament came to be. This time around, Henry was about to be executed as a hostage.

One of the reasons this episode pulled its weight was due to the fact that Raymond got to use a sexy new gun that can track enemies inside a building and then fire rounds solid enough to bust through concrete walls. I know, it's not much – but this is the second to last episode of the series, so I don't mind grasping at a few straws. It was nice to see Mavis do something finally. Show some sort of outer-context. Her storyline has only singularly been tied to Edward and Henry and whatever it is that the two of them were doing or not doing. This was the first, and probably last, time that Mavis appeared to be human. People are softening on the show. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but I do know that Edward is not the same person that killed Henry's old college friend all those episodes ago. And Mavis isn't the woman who induced a heart attack on Henry on a city bus in order to bring him in.

Angie wants to have a baby. Henry does to, sorta. Edward definitely doesn't. Especially now that he knows he'll have to be a somewhat active part of it. In fact, he gives a great line into his phone while leaving a message for Henry – "I'll gladly have sex with your wife, but raising kids is your job." Nice. Henry's mixed emotions over having a child only stem from him thinking he's going to get killed one day on a mission. Meanwhile, Mavis gives Skinner crap about sleeping with Edward, but takes it back in the end after she realizes that she misses…sleeping with men. The best scene of the episode came when Skinner had to talk Edward through a psych-interrogation of Kubako. Basically, Edward had to pretend he was a General and a friendly admirer of Kubako's. It was a great moment, right up until the end when I just didn't believe that someone like Edward, who tortures people for a living, would crack under Duke's off color rape remarks.