'Quantico' Recap: 'We Broke Her'

That was certainly a long wait. The midseason finale of ABC’s freshman FBI drama aired nearly three full months ago, and left a lot of mysteries up in the air. But viewers were rewarded with a slew of answers to kick off the second half of the season, as well as a major, episode-ending cliffhanger that suggests a whole new level of angst and danger for agent Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra).


1. The action has jumped three months forward in the timeline of “future”/New York City events, and we learn the most familiar casualty of the 32 people who died in the second bomb attack, the one that blew up the FBI command center: Clayton Haas, a.k.a. Caleb’s dad, Shelby’s ex-lover, and the husband of Senator (and aspiring Veep) Claire Haas.


2. Alex reveals at a Senate hearing that she doesn’t believe Elias Harper acted alone in the bombings at Grand Central Station and the FBI command center. Some of her colleagues strongly disagree with her, including Liam, Miranda, Ryan, Simon, and Shelby, who doesn’t even want to talk to Alex, given that Ms. Parrish blew up her life, humiliated her with the revelation of her affair with the late Clayton, and left her such a target of the paparazzi that she has to move back to Georgia to find a little bit of peace.

3. Duncan Howell, the hacker who helped Alex figure out there was going to be a second bomb after the Grand Central attack, jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge, telling the cop who tried to talk him down to make sure Alex knows “I thought I didn’t have a choice.”