Cassandra "Cassie" Bowden is a main character on HBO Max's The Flight Attendant. She is portrayed by Kaley Cuoco, as well as by Audrey Grace Marshall in the character's youth. She is also occasionally known by the nickname "Cass."
She is a flight attendant who wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man and no idea what happened. As she falls under suspicion, she becomes determined to clear her name, but must deal with her own issues as an alcoholic, as well as the real killer.
One year, Cassandra Bowden is living her best sober life in L.A., now attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, dating a man named Marco, and continuing to work as a flight attendant while also moonlighting on the side as a civilian asset for the CIA. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Cassie's seemingly perfect new life is built around a house of cards and that she has yet to truly face the issues that lead her down a destructive path.
History[]
Biography[]
Throughout her childhood, Cassandra Bowden suffered a lot of emotional turmoil. She turned to alcohol to try to escape her past.[1] One of her earliest childhood memories is of hunting a deer with her father Hank Bowden. Although her father sometimes let her drink beer, it was not until after his death that she sneaked her first taste of hard alcohol. When she was young, she witnessed a plane crashing near her family's home and raced toward it. Everybody on the flight survived and afterwards, a flight attendant on the flight was featured heavily in interviews as having comforted the passengers on the plane, helping them to keep calm during the worst time of their lives. According to Cassie, it was seeing this that inspired her to become a flight attendant.
As a child, she was something of a tomboy, and far different from her brother Davey Bowden. She was favored by her father, who thought Davey a sissy, but has a skewed view of their past which she is forced to challenge as her life begins to unravel around her. She witnessed her father's abuse of Davey, but was at the same time a victim of his mind games, his favorite and his "drinking buddy." She blames herself for the car crash which took her father's life, but has never shared this with anyone.
Throughout the Series[]
"In Case of Emergency"[]
During a flight, Cassandra "Cassie" Bowden hits it off well with the passenger in seat 3C, Alex Sokolov. She tries to pretend to her co-workers that there is nothing going on, but she makes out with him in the plane's lavatory and then secretly accepts his business card. After the flight lands, the two share a torrid one-night stand, enjoying an evening of drinks, shopping and dinner before retiring to a hotel room, where things get steamy. The next morning, Cassie wakes to find she has barely any memory of the night before and then turns around. She stifles a scream as she sees Alex lying dead in the bed next to hers, his body covered in blood.
After silencing her phone, Cassie next calls her best friend, Annie Mouradian, who happens to be a lawyer. She starts rambling about a girl who was innocent, and Annie realizes that she's talking about Amanda Knox. Cassie asks if Knox called the police and Annie replies that she did call the police and was arrested. She sees that Cassie is in Bangkok and advises her to absolutely not get arrested in Bangkok under any circumstances, describing the laws there as "byzantine." After ending the call, Cassie takes a shower to clean up herself including her cut hand, and then cleans up the room as well. She then sneaks out of the hotel.
She boards her flight, fending off her boss Megan's inquiries, but has a hallucination of Alex telling her she's not going to be able to get away with she's doing. Seriously disturbed, she mistakenly serves the new air marshal vodka instead of his requested order of soda, leading Megan to wonder what she's thinking, trying to get the air marshal drunk. During a stopover in Seoul, she very nearly gets into a one-night stand with another man, but another hallucination of a painting of a praying mantis makes her think better of it. She drinks some more vodka and collapses for the night before boarding the plane for the final flight home. However, as they're arriving, Megan tells her that the authorities wish to speak with the first-class cabin crew in B-31. She tries to make a dash for it, but is caught by two gate agents and made to go to B-31. She waits while her co-workers are called in for their interviews, before finally going in herself. Once inside, she claims that she wasn't trying to flee, but was merely on auto-pilot after a long flight. She claims to the FBI agents, Kim Hammond and Van White, that she and Alex only spoke a few times. As she does so, however, she goes into another hallucination in which Alex comments that they know she's lying. She asks if she's going insane, wanting to know where they are. She pulls back a set of curtains and observes herself sitting with the two FBI agents. "I think you know more than you think you do," comments Alex, and he places a hand on her shoulder. She then has an out-of-focus recollection of a woman in a red dress.
"Rabbits"[]
Cassie remembers a bit about the woman, whose name is Miranda. Claiming tiredness, she ends the interview with the FBI agents, who agree that she should get some sleep. That night, however, she has trouble getting to sleep. She has another hallucination involving Alex, in which she pleads for him to actually be helpful. He asks what she recalls about Miranda and she says that he told her they were business associates. He points out that she still has his business card in her pocket. Based on this, she heads to his workplace, Unisphere Asset Management. There, she claims to be "Alessandra Richi," a business associate of Alex's. Things do not go well, however, as the receptionist, Sabrina Oznowich, seems troubled upon hearing the name and the lady that she meets with asks a lot of questions before leaving to summon two men. Cassie bolts before they can meet with her, knocking over a statue of a rabbit in the process and having a hallucination of hunting a rabbit with her father.
After fleeing the building, Cassie receives another call from the FBI agents, asking her to again come and meet with them. She agrees to the meeting, and then visits Annie. She tells her that the FBI asked if she had a lawyer and Annie shouts that she's her lawyer, Cassie replying that this is what she hoped she would say. The two of them work out a strategy as to how Cassie is to respond during the meeting. That night, Cassie meets an intriguing man named Buckley and has sex with him. The next morning, Cassie runs late for the FBI meeting and when it actually happens, things go off-the-rails entirely. Spurred on by another hallucination of Alex as well as photos of Alex's dead body and her disguised self, Cassie doesn't stick to the plan, breaking down and admitting that she met Alex on the plane and the two of them had sex. She also admits to Alex having mentioned a woman named Miranda, pleading for the FBI agents to look into her.
Determined to get answers about Miranda, Cassie tails the receptionist from Unisphere, Sabrina, to a bar. There, she gets her drunk and manages to get her to talk about Miranda. She gets out of Sabrina that the woman's full name is "Miranda Croft." sabrina also suggests that Alex and Miranda were dating, but broke off recently, and all but describes Miranda as having been a stalker. Cassie has another hallucination involving Alex in which the two of them agree that Miranda probably killed him. She then leaves the bar, unaware that she is being tailed by Miranda herself.
"Funeralia"[]
Cassie calls up Annie to talk about Sabrina, but Annie pleads with her to let her be the lawyer and deal with the situation. Meanwhile, Miranda loses Cassie's trail when she gets caught up in a group of street performers. Cassie takes Annie's advice and tries to resume her normal life, serving as a flight attendant on a flight to Rome. Once there, she has a bit of romance with a bartender, but things are interrupted when she encounters her boss, Megan, who hints at having secrets of her own.
Cassie returns home in the United States, only to discover that someone broke into her apartment and rifled through her possessions. She goes to Annie's place, desperate to talk about this, only to instead find a shirtless guy there named Max who claims to be Annie's boyfriend. When Annie gets there, she states that she doesn't have a boyfriend, but doesn't tell Max to leave either. He calls it a "labels thing" and leaves the two women to talk. They do and Cassie tells Annie about what happened with her apartment. Annie reveals that she talked with Sabrina, who is now claiming never to have heard of Miranda Croft. She puts in a call to one of her contacts, who reveals that the police in Bangkok have discovered a broken bottle they believe to be the murder weapon. Cassie panics, saying that she's seen Dateline and they focus on one person and she's going to jail. Annie tells her to stop watching Dateline and to stay at her place for a while so she'll be safe.
Cassie seizes on a nugget of information from one of her hallucinations with Alex, a statement of his that his mother didn't like his last girlfriend. She decides to attend Alex's memorial service, hoping she can get information out of Alex's mother, Janet, about Miranda. Things, however, go badly wrong. Once there, she disturbs Alex's fathers Edward's memorial for his son when her smartphone goes off. She then roams around the memorial, getting badly drunk, before encountering Janet, who claims that Alex's last girlfriend wasn't Miranda at all, but somebody named Fiona. She ignores Annie's phone calls telling her to get out of the place because the Sokolovs are laundering money for some very shady people. Instead, she hides and eavesdrops on a phone conversation in which a man says to Janet he shredded the Lionfish files. She then searches the house until she finds the office containing the shredder and tosses the bag of shredded files out the window. She is then caught in the room by Alex's parents, but a timely phone call to a contact by Annie manages to bail her out of the situation before things can turn ugly. She then takes a train home where, searching for a bar car that the train doesn't have, she comes face to face with Miranda Croft.
"Conspiracy Theories"[]
Cassie manages to escape from Miranda Croft, who plays it safe, not wanting to get caught by the authorities. She returns to Annie's place, where Max helps her to piece together the shredded papers that she found. They discover that they contain information that Alex was on the board of Lionfish and details regarding a flight by a company named Minute Jets which runs every day at 3. On the advice of Megan, Cassie contacts a coworker named Nate who agrees to get her on the flight crew for the flight. Prior to the flight, she spends time with her brother Davey, his partner, Rick Green and her nieces Eve and Maya Bowden-Green. Although it seems like a fun time at first, things turn sour when Cassie wants to buy the girls each a small stuffed toy as a gift, but Davey and Rick are against it, wanting to teach the girls a lesson that they don't get everything they want just because they ask for it.
Cassie boards the flight, and is surprised to learn that there's nobody on it except her, Nate, and the pilot. She ultimately learns that the flights are carrying components for rocket launchers and is seriously disturbed. Afterwards, she goes to have dinner with Davey, expecting Nate and her nieces to be there as well. Instead, she finds Davey at the restaurant alone and he chews her out by subverting his will in secretly purchasing the toys for his children. The conversation devolves into a terrible argument in which they bring up all of the ghosts of their past and their troubled relationship with their father. Cassie accuses Davey of walking out on her, leaving her to deal with things on her own when he turned 18. He, in turn, accuses her of having a romanticized view of their past and being their father's favorite, saying that their father called her "the son he never had." He tells her that he hoped she would remember the way things really were, but he was probably just lying to himself, before leaving in a cab. Afterwards, she has a flashback which suggests that his view of things is actually true. Trying to shake things off, she has a date with Buckley, but breaks it off abruptly when she realizes that she might be able to get more information out of Sabrina Oznowich. She heads to Sabrina's apartment, pleading with her to talk with her, but then realizes that Miranda Croft is there. She flees the apartment, calling 911, and pleading for someone to come, but then Sabrina's body crashes on the pavement beside her, dead.
"Other People's Houses"[]
Shocked by what just happened, Cassie spills more information than she should to the FBI agents when they come, aggravating Annie, who is becoming increasingly worried that she won't be able to protect her. The group returns to Annie's apartment, where Annie is forced to deal with the fallout of helping Cassie. Meanwhile, Cassie recalls that Alex mentioned having an apartment in New York and that he sometimes worked from home there. She realizes that, with Max's help, she might be able to get critical information off of his laptop there. She manages to convince him to help and the two of them head to the apartment, where she manages to sweet-talk her way past the door guard based on information from the flashback. They then head up to the apartment, where Cassie's memory again comes in handy when she remembers the passcode to deactivate the security system on the door.
She and Max enter and begin searching for Alex's laptop. Along the way, they discover some very disturbing things, including a stash of Oxycontin pills and a taxidermied door. They eventually discover the laptop, but find that it needs an authentication code sent to a key fob, prompting a further search. Cassie finds the fob, but the two are forced to hide when Miranda Croft sneaks into the apartment. She too discovers the laptop, but upon discovering that it needs the code, smashes it in a fit of rage. Cassie despairs, until she discovers several unopened letters, one of which gives her the location of the Lionfish servers. With this new info in hand, she and Max race to the Lionfish building to get the information they need.
Once there, Max is easily able to hack into the servers, where they discover some very disturbing information. It includes a recording of Cassie's co-worker Megan speaking to someone in Korean as well as several IDs. Among these are Cassie's lost driver's license, marked with the status "pending." They find several other IDs of people who are deceased, and one of somebody named Elena King which is also marked "pending," except the photo on the ID is that of Miranda Croft. Before they can finish transferring any files, however, an error message appears on the computer screen and Max realizes that someone has discovered that they are there right now. They race out of the server room and down a dark alley, only for a car to come barreling at them at high speed. Max pushes Cassie out of the way, taking the full brunt of the impact. Cassie performs chest compressions, shouting for someone, anyone to help.
"After Dark"[]
Following the crash, Cassie waits with Annie for news about Max. However, the two of them have a falling out when Cassie tries to plead about them going to get evidence, and it being on a Hello Kitty flash drive, which she doesn't happen to have. Annie finally has enough and dismisses Cassie, telling her to take her stuff and get out of her apartment. Having hit rock bottom, Cassie calls everyone she knows, not wanting to be alone. She eventually reaches Buckley Ware, who is more than happy to hear from her and tells her to come to his place. The two have sex and Cassie runs from the Alex in her head, saying that she doesn't want to talk with him.
Cassie and Buckley head out on the town for a wild series of escapades. They have breakfast at a bar with formosas, which ends abruptly when Buckley drops his pants in front of Cassie and they are kicked out of the restaurant. Later, they head to a strip club and bar, where Cassie gets very drunk and continues to evade the hallucinatory Alex. She ends up confronting Agent Chavez, an FBI agent who has been tailing her, but he dismisses her as simply nuts and evades her question about him being an FBI agent. She then returns to Buckley's table, telling him she has to fix things with Annie.
She and Buckley head to Annie's apartment, but things do not go well. Annie tells Cassie that she's sick of excusing and forgiving Cassie, that she's not the answer to whatever it is that Cassie's trying to drown out. Cassie counters with some examples of stuff that she's forgiven Annie for before, but Annie tells her that it doesn't compare to Max being hit by a car. Cassie points out that she didn't even know about Max and Annie agrees that she's right, that their friendship only works because they don't show each other the messy bits. Cassie never had to call her a liar and she never had to call Cassie a drunk, but that's what they both are. Cassie protests that she isn't a drunk, but Annie tells her that she doesn't have the emotional bandwidth to fight with her anymore, that she's tapped out. She tells Cassie to grow up and Cassie leaves, shooting back that Annie is going to feel really sorry when she's dead.
Having hit rock-bottom, Cassie tells Buckley that the two of them are going to do something crazy. They find a chained-up mechanical pony, shake it from its chains and pick it up. They take off with it and, of course, are arrested and hauled away by the police. In her jail cell, Cassie has a flashback of a birthday party with her father and Davey. It seems to be a happy party, but then the scene changes and now her father is holding a beer and the two of them are making life miserable for Davey by smashing the cake and Mr. Bowden shoving Davey to the floor when he tries to protest. Cassie, watching with Alex, asks him what's going on, why it changed. He tells her that she's seeing what really happened, but she shouts that he's doing this to her and to stop it. The flashbacks continue and she sees more of the past and how horrible she and her father were to her brother. In her jail cell, she sobs, finally having confronted the reality of her past. She uses her one phone call to call Davey and apologize to him, saying that she wanted their father to be good and the way he acted is kind of her fault. She tells him it's not okay how their father treated him, but he replies that it's not okay how he treated her either. Following the call, she goes to sleep, and is woken by a guard who tells her that she's posted bail. She asks if Buckley did it, but the guard tells her that Buckley is still being held. She leaves the jail and comes face-to-face with Miranda, who points a gun at her. "We need to talk," she tells her.
"Hitchcock Double"[]
Miranda leads Cassie into a garage where Cassie is convinced that she's going to kill her, the same way that she killed Alex and Sabrina and everyone else. When she expresses this, however, Miranda tells her that she didn't kill any of those people and she certainly didn't kill Alex, Cassie did. Cassie replies that she didn't, insisting that she's just a flight attendant, but Miranda is convinced there has to be much more to it than this. Cassie mentions the name "Elena King" and Miranda asks how she knows it, so Cassie explains that she and Max saw it on an ID they found on the Lionfish servers. Something about this rings true to Miranda and she realizes that Cassie really is just a flight attendant. "Wow, we are so fucked," she comments.
Miranda takes Cassie to a cafe, where she reveals the whole story about what happened between her and Alex. She first met him for drinks several weeks before and drank rather more than she should have. She started complaining to him about her boss, Victor, and in the process he learned the truth about his parents' shady activities at Unisphere Asset Management. He was a Boy Scout, having been kept entirely in the dark about it. He then decided to be a hero by hiding a bunch of his clients' money and flying to Bangkok and that's where Cassie comes in.
The two make an agreement and pay a visit to Annie. Cassie manages to get Annie to come out of the hospital and they have a talk in which they manage to resolve their argument, Annie admitting that even though she was very scared about what happened to Max, she should have still tried to listen. Miranda then breaks up their chat and Annie is surprised to learn that she is an actual person and not someone that Cassie simply made up. Cassie's idea is for Annie to get immunity for Miranda, but Annie tells them there's limits to what she can do, given that she no longer even has her position at her law firm. Nevertheless, she tells them to go to a hotel while she puts together a plan.
Cassie likes Annie's idea and agrees to it, but Miranda is skeptical of the plan at best. She tells Cassie that there's no way that Miranda can protect them from Victor's assassin and that they need to flee the country to Canada. She say that she'll get in touch with one of her contacts and tell Annie anything. Cassie lies to Annie, telling her they're going to the hotel, and then she and Miranda takes refuge at a church. Cassie is upset, however, when it turns out that Miranda's contact, Sarah, is busy hosting an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and they're going to have to wait for her. She is eventually overwhelmed by it, despite the hallucinatory Alex's suggestion that she share her troubles, and flees into an empty Bible study classroom. There, she is overwhelmed by the flashback of her and her father's car crash, admitting to Alex that she's told nobody that she blames herself for it, as she was her father's "drinking buddy." She tells him she doesn't want to run anymore and back in reality, she tells Miranda as much as well, that she doesn't just want to leave the country and hide. Miranda tells her that she respects what she's managed to pull off so far, but sooner or later Victor's assassin, Feliks, is going to catch up to them. Cassie, however, counters that she thinks that deep down Miranda still thinks she's going to lead her to the money. She tells her, however, that even blackout drunk, she would have remembered piles of cash lying around. Miranda says that it wouldn't be cash, that it would be account numbers or some such, and Cassie has a flashback of taking the copy of Crime and Punishment from Alex that he had scribbled in.
The two return to Annie's apartment to claim the book. They find it, but just as they do, someone starts trying to break down the door. Convinced that it is Feliks, they flee via a fire escape to the rooftop, but in the process, Miranda drops the book. She tells Cassie that this means Victor has the book and they're dead for nothing. As she continues talking, a comment she makes about "dead cats," sparks something in Cassie's memory. She stealthily glances across the rooftop and spies Buckley Ware. "Holy shit," she realizes as the two of them escape. Cassie tells Miranda she no longer has any idea what's going on, but Miranda counters that Buckley, or Feliks, has had many chances to kill her, but hasn't. Cassie asks they can use what they know about him against him and they hatch a plan to lure him to Rome and kill him.
"Arrivals and Departures"[]
Cassie and Miranda catch a cab, ready to put their plan into action, when suddenly Miranda places a phone call using a burner phone and then bails, saying that she has business to take care of. Cassie is worried that she might be ghosting her, but has no choice but to continue on with the plan. She arrives at the airport and boards the plane, where she gets into an argument with Megan over drinking alcohol. She claims that her vodka bottles are just a "security blanket," but Megan gets upset and shouts at her, saying that she used to admire her. Shane, however, comes up to Cassie, asking for a word with her. He then reconciles with Cassie telling her that both Megan and Jada are driving him nuts. He apologizes for getting so mad about the funeral incident, telling her that he's never lost anyone close to him before and he might have done the same thing in her shoes.
The flight arrives in Rome and inside the airport, Cassie comes face-to-face with Buckley. "Hi," he says to her and when she steps forward, he grabs her and she shouts that he's attacking her. A couple of gate agents break things up and Megan shows up to back up Cassie's story, but leaves when Cassie starts to thank her. Later, Cassie pays a visit to Megan in her hotel room. There, the two finally manage to make things up. Cassie tells Megan that she owes her the truth, admitting that she did spend the night with Alex Sokolov in Bangkok. She tells her that ever since then, her life has been a living hell. Megan is shocked, saying that she thought that she kept things bottled up, and Cassie tells her to lay it her on. She says that they are absolutely friends after traveling the world together. At this, Megan admits the truth of the corporate espionage that she's been committing against her husband, Bill. When Cassie tells her that it's going to be okay, she replies that not everyone gets to be okay, but she hopes she's right.
In a pizza restaurant, Cassie meets up with her friend Enrico, telling him she needs his help. She explains that she needs a gun, shocking him. Nevertheless, after she explains a bit more, he agrees to the request and takes her to his family home. There, he heads inside and asks his grandmother where his grandfather's things are. She refuses to help him, so he begins searching on his own, while she heads out to talk to Cassie. The two of them have a chat about life choices and she again flashes back to her past and the car crash. This time, she has a chat with her younger self. "It's not your fault," she tells the young Cassie, making the decision there and then that this is not going to define her going forward. Back in reality, she lines up her vodka bottles on a wall, leaving them behind as Enrico returns with the gun. She has a hallucination of Alex, badly bloodied, but tells him that she won't remember him like this. She closes her eyes, and reopens them to find him whole and unbloodied. The two of them kiss. In the real world, Cassie and Enrico arrive at Cassie's hotel room. Enrico leaves, and Cassie tells him to knock three times when he comes back.
Later, Cassie is freshening up in the bathroom when she spots something out of the corner of her eye in the bathtub. She pulls back the corner and spots first Miranda lying in the tub unconscious, then Buckley Ware/Feliks standing on top of the tub. She races to try to escape the room, but Buckley catches her up and pulls her away from the door. The two fight, trading barbs, when Enrico arrives. He goes on the attack, but is quickly sidelined by Buckley. Buckley taunts Cassie, telling her that she's like catnip to him and explaining that he's been following her everywhere, in various disguises. She grabs a gun and points it at him, but he tells her that she's a drunk, not a killer. She shoots him, but her aim is off and she only grazes him in the leg. He moves to go on the attack again, but just then, Shane Evans appears and shoots him, delivering a much more serious wound. After the dust settles a bit, Cassie sits outside, watching Enrico being taken to an ambulance on a stretcher, well enough to give her a thumbs up. Shane comes over and she asks what his deal is, how he was able to simply roll into the room with a gun. He tells her that while it's something he probably shouldn't tell her, he's actually an agent for the CIA, and has been monitoring Megan in regards to her corporate espionage. She asks him if Miranda is okay, but he tells her that there was nobody else in the room.
Cassie returns to New York, where she's surprised but delighted to find her brother Davey waiting for her. They embrace and he tells her again that he'll always be there for her as her older brother. Later, she meets Annie in a cafe and thanks her for all that she's done for her. The two share a meal and Cassie learns that Max will be okay. They discuss their futures, Annie suggesting that they get drunk and laugh about everything sometime, but Cassie pulls out a chip, telling her that she's not drinking. She then admits that it's closer to the truth that she's trying not to drink, though it's very hard. Annie tells Cassie that she's unemployed now. She suggest that they collect their unemployment checks together, but Cassie explains that the FBI cleared things up for her with Imperial Atlantic and she actually has a flight the next day. She agrees to pay the bill for their lunch, but when she reaches for her checkbook, she finds the copy of Alex's Crime and Punishment, Alex's ledger book. She discovers a page missing and a note from Miranda - "Took the page and the money, but you should have the book. See you soon - xM." She races outside, looking around, but does not see Miranda. The next day, she boards her flight. She is surprised to see Shane there, but he tells her that he's working and that's all she needs to know right now. However, he also tells her that it's likely that his boss may be in touch with her about their "human asset program." Cassie sits down and enters the hotel room of her mind one final time. She turns out all the lights, putting it to bed for good. Back in the real world, she smiles and nods as voice instructs all flight attendants to prepare for takeoff.
"Seeing Double"[]
Approximately one year later, Cassie Bowden has moved to Los Angeles and is now living her best sober life. She attends an Alcholics Anonymous meeting in which she tells the attendees that they know her story, but what they may not know is that she's started dating a new guy, Marco, and has picked up a part-time job. She's still working as a flight attendant for Imperial Atlantic, but feels like she's turned into a whole new person in a great way, being just two days away from being a year sober. After she finishes, a man named Ted raises his hand, saying that he recalls feeling like he was in a pink cloud early in his recovery, but he was stupidly naive. Annoyed, Cassie starts to ask him just what he's getting at, but the group leader cuts her off for "cross-talk."
After the meeting is over, Cassie talks with her sponsor, Brenda, saying that she couldn't help herself, that the man was a dick. Brenda agrees that he was being a dick. Another woman, Jenny, comes over, and tells Cassie that her story inspired her. Brenda, bemused, asks Cassie if she's ready to be a role model. Cassie then returns him, opens an envelope with a mysterious keychain inside, and has sex with her boyfriend, Marco.
Cassie then heads out for a flight, but first meets with a man named Benjamin Berry. Benjamin is her handler with the CIA. He presents her with a picture of her target in Berlin, a man named Will Kotov, warning her not to get involved with him, as she's had a bad habit of doing so in the past. Throughout the conversation, she tries to pry in for personal information, wanting to learn more about him, but he ignores her attempts.
At the airport, Cassie finds to her annoyance that the lead on the flight is her old co-worker Jada. Jada tells her that there are to be "no shenanigans," but Cassie tells her that it's okay, that she's sober now. On the flight, she meets new flight attendant named Grace, who seems friendly. She arrives in Berlin and heads to a bar that Will Kotov is visiting. There, the she seemingly inadvertently bumps into a couple: Esteban and Gabrielle Diaz. The two act like they're just vacationing there, but Esteban secretly scans the contents of Cassie's smartphone. Cassie then goes over and chats with Will, in clear violation of her orders from Benjamin, before tailing him.
Cassie follows Will, observing him taking a briefcase. She continues to tail him to a hotel, where he checks in. She manages to worm his room number out of the hotel's staff and sets herself up in a room with a view of his. Here, things take a turn for the strange, as she observes Will having sex with a woman who has the same tattoo of a moth on her back that she has in the exact same place. Furthermore, there is a strange man with a milky eye in the room above Will's, seemingly also monitoring the action, who closes the blinds when he seemingly notices Cassie observing him. Cassie then sees Will leaving the room, so she exits in a hurry in order to pursue. Outside, she watches him get into a car, which then explodes. In the aftermath, she observes a woman wearing sunglasses who looks a lot like her standing coolly in front of the burned-out car.
Back at the hotel, Cassie finds that her keycard no longer works. She then gets a call from Benjamin, only to find herself back in the bar where she talked with Will. Inside is another version of herself. She has found herself back inside her "mind palace," except this time, instead of Alex Sokolov, there is a version of herself wearing a gold dress, who comments "Wow, that explosion really rattled you. Really blew some stuff apart." Cassie comments that she's not doing this again. "Are you me?" she asks, and the gold dress Cassie asks if she thought she was going to find some hot, dead guy in there again. She tells Cassie that she's still making self-destructive choices, asking why she would follow her mark if this isn't the case.
Cassie takes Benjamin's call. He asks her if she's okay, saying he got intelligence on an explosion. She lies to him, telling him that she's perfectly fine and that she followed his instructions. She ends the call, then goes to her closet, only to find that everything is missing. When she goes to the reception desk, the receptionist is confused and says that she had already checked out. Greatly confused herself, Cassie returns to the airport for her flight back to the United States. She chats with the new flight attendant, Grace, about the explosion, commenting that the whole thing was like something out of Dateline. She points out Grace's scarf, saying it's from two years ago, and Grace comments that it's kitsch, but it keeps people guessing. Grace mentions also having ringing in her ears from the explosion and suggests that the two of them hang out in L.A. Cassie then delivers a drink to a man in 4A, only to discover that it's the same milky-eyed man she saw back in Berlin. To her annoyance, he follows her after she gets off the plane, but she manages to hide from him.
Cassie heads back home, where her friends Annie and Max are waiting for her, her having invited them to stay. Cassie tells them that the trip was horrible and that she's glad to be back home safely. She notices a ring on Annie's finger and happily declares that she and Max are engaged, but Annie hedges, referring to it as them being in "continuous discussions about the future." She tells Cassie that she doesn't want to discuss it, that she instead wants to talk about Cassie's new boyfriend, Marco. Before they can begin this conversation, however, there is a knock at the door. When Cassie answers the door, she discovers two men who identify themselves as being with the CIA and tell her that she needs to come with them right now. Cassie is forced to excuse herself, telling Annie and Max that she has to leave to help a friend, but that she can't talk about it. She promises to be back before dinner.
The two men escort Cassie to the CIA, but when she comments that it must have been important for Benjamin to send them, they tell her that it was not Benjamin who sent them. Nevertheless, it is Benjamin that she meets upon arrival at the CIA. He chews her out for lying to him about not being on-site for the explosion, saying that he's now going to have to explain her to his boss, Dot Karlson. However, Dot calls Cassie in for a meeting and dismisses Benjamin, saying that what passes for boldness in men at the CIA is considered recklessness in a woman. She also tells Cassie that Benjamin fought to be her handler and that she's going to give him some time to cool off. All of this seems to be good for Cassie, but when Cassie tries to show her a picture of the double from Berlin, she tells Cassie that her mind could be playing tricks on her. She further says that she's going to have Imperial Atlantic temporarily ground her so that she can rest up.
Cassie returns home, annoyed at having been grounded. Even more weirdness turns out to be waiting for her at home, as a man arrives and drops off a luggage bag, saying that it belongs to Cassie. When, however, she brings it inside and inspects it more closely, she discovers that the blue ribbon that she keeps tied to it is on the wrong zipper. She opens and, to her shock, discovers a uniform that isn't hers, a Viewmaster and a blonde wig with blood on it. "I touched it!" she shouts, telling Annie and Max that there were a lot of crazy things happening around her in Germany and that she's starting to think there's someone pretending to be her. "Hello?!" she shouts when she gets no response, and Annie agrees that it's bad.
"Mushrooms, Tasers, and Bears, Oh My!"[]
Annie and Max get to examining the Viewmaster, Annie telling Cassie that it's starting to seem like she's living in a spy novel. She asks Cassie just what she's involved in. Cassie claims that it's nothing, but when it's clear that Annie isn't buying, she goes for broke and admits to being an asset for the CIA. She explains everything that happened and Annie asks her if there's anyone at the CIA she can trust. Cassie agrees that she does, referring to Shane Evans, but she comments that he can imagine him telling her to just let them deal with it. Before they can continue the conversation, Cassie's boyfriend Marco arrives. When he seems none the worse for wear, Annie realizes that she hasn't told him about any of this.
The next morning, Cassie wakes up and has a flashback of her trip, including her odd conversations with the new flight attendant, Grace St. James. Remembering certain things, she comes to the conclusion that Grace could be the double. She goes to Annie and presents her with this theory. However, when she suggests actually paying a visit to Grace, Annie advises against it, warning that Grace could be dangerous. Cassie agrees not to go see Grace, saying that she needs to get donuts anyway for an AA meeting.
Despite this, however, the second she gets in her car, she puts in a call to Grace, suggesting that they hang out. Grace, however, begs off, claiming to be in the middle of a "baking emergency." Cassie wishes her luck, but she is actually in front of her house and watching as she exits the house, clearly not in the middle of any sort of baking emergency. She decides to tail her. She follows her to small airport for local flights where she observes her out on the runway receiving a small package.
Cassie then heads to her Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, loaded down with donuts. She apologizes for being late, only to instead be complimented by Brenda for being early. At the meeting, Cassie is presented with cake for celebrating one year of sobriety, as well as a one year chip. She also receives a stuffed bear from her brother Davey wearing a shirt that says "Easy does it" and which says the phrase in his voice when squeezed. During the presentation, however, Cassie finds herself dealing with a hallucination of herself who intimates that the whole thing is a farce.
After the meeting, Cassie receives a text from Grace asking her if she wants to hang out. She agrees and makes her way to Grace's place. She is again egged on by an alternate version of herself, who encourages her to go in and snoop to see if she can discover if Grace is the double. While there, Grace offers her a drink, which she accepts but secretly pours out, not telling Grace that she is on the wagon. She discovers a picture of Grace in a military uniform and Grace tells her that she was in the army but got out because her version of saving the world and theirs didn't line up. She asks Cassie if she can take a quick shower. Cassie agrees and uses the opportunity to spy, but upon checking Grace's back doesn't see the same tattoo as her own, nor is she able to find any other clues that would implicate Grace as her double. She does inspect the strange package that Grace received. However, when Grace returns and sees her checking it out, she reveals that the content are actually fentanyl lollipops, explaining that she delivers them to terminally ill cancer patients who aren't able to afford pain relief.
Cassie receives a text from Annie, asking her to meet her and Max at Echo Park Lake, as Max was able to determine that one of the slides on the Viewmaster depicts this location. Upon arrival, however, they don't discover anything strange and wonder if they're just supposed to stay there and keep an eye out for doubles. Defeated, they return home, then head out to a restaurant along with Cassie's boyfriend Marco. The talk turns to romance, but Annie still refuses to admit being engaged to Max, while Cassie seems reluctant to move things forward with Marco. After the dinner, Cassie refuses to commit to anything when Marco suggests that they might consider moving in together. She then takes a call from Eli Briscoe, the son of her fugitive friend Megan Briscoe, who tells her that Megan sent him a strange emoji message via Snapchat. He forwards it to her and she promises to make sure that Megan is okay. She then tries to call Megan, only to find the number disconnected.
"The Reykjavik Ice Sculpture Festival Is Lovely This Time of Year"[]
Marco apologizes to Cassie for throwing her off with the suggestion of moving in. Cassie, however, again defers the conversation, pleading that Annie is upset about a bombed interview and she wants to be there for her. Annie then asks Cassie if she's okay. She agrees that she is, but then flags Annie off to head to the bathroom to try to discover the strange emoji message sent by Megan. Mocked by another of her hallucinations for ignoring her personal problems to focus on this, she deciphers the message as meaning that Megan is in Iceland and that she needs Cassie's help to her out of the country.
In the dead of night, Cassie tries to sneak off, only to encounter Annie. Annie, however, tells her that she doesn't need to explain anything, given that she's already told her about her work with the CIA. She agrees to keep working on the Viewmaster for Cassie. At the airport, Cassie encounters Grace St. James, who is hoping that they're on the same flight so that they can hang out. Cassie, however, still worried about her possibly being the double, covers her tracks to keep her from finding out that she's going to Iceland. When, however, she tries to get a jump-seat for a flight to Reykjavik, she discovers that the last one has been taking by a fellow flight attendant named Carol Atkinson that she hates.
Cassie goes to Carol, pleading with her to let her have the jump-seat ticket. She claims to be going to Iceland to visit a dying grandmother. Carol, however, is unsympathetic, ignoring all of Cassie's pleas. Egged on by one of her hallucinations, Cassie tells Carol that everyone knows her as "black market Carol." She threatens to reveal to their supervisors that Carol is secretly selling "buddy passes" for profit. Left with no choice, Carol hands over the ticket. Cassie then boards the flight and gets settled down, only to be approached by another familiar face: Shane Evans.
"Carol Atkinson?" asks Shane, and Cassie claims that Carol simply gave the ticket to her. When Shane asks her why she's visiting Iceland, she spots a travel brochure and produces the lame excuse of wanting to visit an ice sculpture festival. He asks if "black market Carol" really just gave her the seat and she replies that he shouldn't call her that. In her mind palace, however, the alternate Cassies mock her that Shane doesn't believe any of it and she realizes that Shane must be heading to Iceland because he too knows that Megan is there and is looking to apprehend her.
In Iceland, Cassie takes a call from Annie who tells her that Marco was looking for her. She asks if she's told him yet that she's with the CIA and also if he asked her to move in. She accuses Cassie of not being serious about Marco and asks her if she is dodging him. She, however, pleads with Annie to just tell Marco that she's covering for a friend on a flight before cutting the call. She then begins a whirlwind search of Iceland, hitting up every place that she can recall hanging out with her during their travels together, but comes up empty. She also takes a call from her brother Davey, who tells her that he had lunch with Jenny, the woman who was inspired by Cassie's story at the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He suggests that Cassie participate in Jenny's podcast about ordinary people who find themselves in true crime situations and tell her story about Alex Sokolov. Cassie, however, tells him that Jenny needs to learn that Alcoholics Anonymous is anonymous, and that nobody cares about the Alex Sokolov story anymore.
Cassie is approached by Shane, who asks her if she's still searching for ice sculptures. She replies that the festival is tomorrow and that she just doesn't want to miss the local culture, saying that the place they're standing in front of serves the best sheep's head. Shane, however, calls her bluff, by suggesting that they go inside the restaurant and order. Cassie, however, can barely choke down the food and Shane calls her out, saying that he's getting worried about her impulsive behavior. He warns her that there are things they're both not saying and that he'd hate for them to come between them. Cassie tries to get herself out of the situation by paying the bill and leaving, but the waiter comes back telling her that her card was declined. She then checks her smartphone and finds a fraud alert that somebody had a shopping spree at a hardware store using her account.
Cassie gets a call from Annie, telling her that she thinks she and Max have figured out another Viewmaster slide. Cassie, however, is upset and tells Annie about the bank fraud alert. When she outlines the list of things purchased, Annie describes them as being everything needed to hide a body. Cassie freaks out and Annie tells her to chill, but she replies that there is a psychopath impersonating her and she decided to travel to Iceland. Annie urges her to get it together, telling her that she'll keep working on the Viewmaster.
In her hotel room, an alarm goes off and Cassie is again trouble by her tinnitus. Finding herself once again in the mind palace and troubled by her doubles, she desperately hides away the selection of drinks in her room. She drops to the floor, telling herself that she doesn't need a drink and that she needs to find an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. She races out of her room and down the stairs, only to discover Shane in the hotel's lobby. She confronts him, asking him if he's following her around. He offers the hypothetical that she's there to aid a fugitive. She again tells him that she's there for the ice sculpture festival, but he tells her point blank that he doesn't believe it. She starts shouting at him, saying that she doesn't know where Megan is and couldn't find her if she wanted to. She tells him that she's trying to be a better person, that she just really wanted to have a drink but stopped herself, then stalks out of the hotel.
Cassie finds an AA meeting. She shares with the group that she came to Iceland hoping to help her friend as an act of service, but instead only upset both her boyfriend and her boss. She continues that she wanted to have a drink, but didn't. She then sits back down and a man named Jimmy gets up and starts sharing his story. He states that the hardest part is being alone and that in Iceland he met somebody that reminded him of home, someone with a Long Island accent. Cassie interrupts him, asking him to tell her more about this person, but is silenced by the meeting leader. After the meeting, however, she goes to Jimmy, saying that it might be the most insane coincidence and asking where she met the woman from Long Island.
Cassie travels to the area indicated. She gets a text from Annie saying that the first Viewmaster slide is a German car. She calls Annie back, only for it to go to voicemail. She leaves a message telling Annie that she recognizes it as being the license plate from the car that blew up in Berlin. She then reaches a bar called the Blue Sincerely and enters, delighted to find Megan behind the counter. She races up to Megan saying that she can't believe it and that she cracked her message. Megan, however, grabs her and takes her to a back room, asking her "What the fuck are you doing here?" She tells her that her being there could get them both killed. "I'm confused," replies Cassie.
"Blue Sincerely Reunion"[]
Cassie tells Megan that she got her emoji message, that it said to bring the puffin keychain to "the Queen of Long Island." Megan, however, tells her that she was referring to their friend Cherri, of the Queen Strip Club of Long Island. She tells her that she overshot by a few thousand miles and that the key on the keychain is to a lockbox containing evidence she hopes to use against the North Korean agents that have been pursuing her. She further explains that she has a plan: that one of these agents, Hak Oh-Seong, has been visiting the bar every night. She and her friend Charlie, who works there at the bar, are planning to spike his drink with poison mushrooms.
Cassie goes into her mind palace, where one of her hallucinations mocks her, noting that it seems like Megan doesn't need her help. She tells her that it's easier to focus on Megan's problems than deal with her own stuff, citing the dates March 21 and March 23. Cassie, however, dismisses this, claiming that she's simply quoting random dates at her. Back in the real world, she and Megan hide out in a closet while Charlie pours Hak a drink. Before he can start drinking, however, Cassie's phone suddenly starts ringing with a call from Jenny. Hak puts down the drink, goes to the closet and opens it. Seeing the two of them, he pulls out a gun, only to suddenly fall forward, a knife in his back. Revealed behind him is Miranda Croft, Cassie's old one-time enemy turned ally. "Sorry if he was one of your friends. Anyhoo, miss me?" she comments.
"Who are you?" whispers Megan and Cassie is forced to make quick introductions. She, Megan, Charlie and Miranda then all flee from more pursuing North Korean agents and board a bus. On the bus, Miranda complains about having been shot again, and in the same leg she was shot in before when previously helping Cassie. She nevertheless asks Cassie how she's been and Cassie reveals the situation of someone impersonating her. Miranda is astonished that she would fly to Iceland with this happening. She asks how she's holding up and Cassie claims that she's handling it. "How exactly?" asks Miranda, but before Cassie can really get into it, she gets another call from Jenny. She takes the call and berates her, asking her to stop calling incessantly and telling her that she's not going to do a podcast, that it's a bad time.
The bus stops at a place called Sky Lagoon, which is supposed to serve as a place of refuge for the group. Unfortunately, it turns out that they have been betrayed by Miranda Croft's agent, Cecilia, and there are North Korean agents waiting for them there as well. They desperately flee, fighting North Korean agents along the way, and Cassie asking just what they're supposed to do now. They end up stealing a boat and from there, a helicopter. As they are boarding, Cassie gets a call from Shane Evans. She takes the call, and he leads off by saying that he doesn't want to fight, saying that he made some assumptions that might not have been true. Megan shouts over to ask Shane why he's asking about Hak Oh-Seong, but Cassie claims that she's just an angry tourist. After the call ends, however, Shane shows a picture of Megan to fellow agent, commenting "Megan Briscoe, most likely traveling with a blonde."
The helicopter takes the group to a plane which will fly them to Los Angeles. As Cassie watches the partings of Miranda & Cecilia, who have made up, and Megan & Charlie, she goes back into her mind palace. She finds herself holding buckets to catch water dripping from the ceiling and the younger version of herself there. Seeing her standing on a ladder, she asks if she needs help, but the young Cassie asks her if she needs help. Cassie replies that she's not the one doing a weird balancing act for something that's going to fall over anyway, but the young Cassie replies that the metaphor is obvious. Back in the real world, Cassie, Megan and Miranda board the plane. When Miranda presents Megan with a fake ID designating her as "Hildegard Bouffant," she scoffs at the name, but Cassie tells her to trust Miranda, that she knows what she's doing.
Cassie and Megan discuss Megan's family. She tells Megan that she put a list of things they need to do to get her back to her family, but Megan counters that she's not even sure they want to see her. Cassie tells her she knows that they do. She ignores a call from Marco, telling Megan that she doesn't know what to say to him, that she jetted off to Iceland without telling him anything. She tells Megan that she needs a drink bad, but Megan is impressed at her being sober. She then goes to Miranda, asking her for her help in getting Megan back to Long Island. Miranda, however, tells her that she's had enough and wants off the saddle, that she's now been shot twice in the same leg helping her and that once was enough. She gives Cassie a box containing mace and personal protection alarm, telling her that Cecilia gave it to her, but that she needs them more.
Back in Los Angeles, Cassie and Megan are discussing the next steps when Cassie notices a news report on a monitor. The reporter discusses the murder of two individuals, who were found at Echo Park Lake, wrapped in tarps and weighted down by heavy chains. Cassie realizes that these were the same items purchased by her double that she got an alert about. She then puts in a call to Annie, who tells her that some crazy stuff went down while she was gone. She takes Megan to the home of her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, Brenda, who agrees to stash her there for the night. Though Megan is reluctant, Cassie pleads with her to just stay there until she can work things out.
Cassie then meets with Annie and Max, who tell her that they were knocked out and held hostage by bounty hunters named Esteban and Gabrielle Diaz. Annie shows Cassie a picture of Esteban and she recalls having run into him back in Berlin. They discuss the murders and Cassie says that she has to go to the CIA. Annie replies that they told her not to look into it and that she's going to look suspicious. Cassie, however, replies that too much is starting to pile up and she has to say something. She therefore goes to the CIA headquarters, only to find her handler, Benjamin Berry, in a terrible state.
Observing empty bottles of alcohol all around Benjamin, she asks him if everything is alright. He tells her that it isn't, that two of his analysts were murdered at Echo Park Lake. She replies that she heard about it, but had no idea that they were CIA analysts. He tells her that sometimes he just wants to burn everything down. She sits down next to him. He tells her "the door's over there," but as she smells the alcohol on his breath, she goes into her mind palace. The sparkly gold dress Cassie tells her to give into it, that she's been wanting to blow up her fake happy life for days. Back in the real world, she passionately kisses Benjamin, then they start taking off each other's clothes. They start making out, then quickly move to full-on sex.
"Drowning Women"[]
Waking up the next morning, Cassie finds Benjamin still asleep. She then spots a folder with a post-it note bearing her name. She opens it and begins photographing everything inside, taking in the contents along the way. In the mind palace, the gold dress Cassie notes that the answers in the psych evaluation in the file are not the ones that Cassie gave and they make her sound insane. In the office, Cassie scatters the file in frustration, then tries to put everything back together. She leaves the office, only to run into Dot Karlson along the way. She claims that she came to see Benjamin to give him a debrief on Berlin, but Dot comments that she seems on edge and suggests seeing a counselor.
Back in her car, Cassie puts in a call to Shane Evans, telling him that he had said to call him if she needs his help and she does. She tells him that she thinks someone stole her identity and that she has proof. Shane is dubious, but promises to see what he can dig up before training. She asks him what he means and he reminds her that they both have mandatory training for Imperial Atlantic Airlines. She groans, but he just tells her to bring the evidence and hangs up. She then returns home, where Annie chastises her for doing something as crazy as copying a CIA file. Cassie tells her that the file had a pysch evaluation saying crazy things about her, including that she suffers from "narcissistic delusions" and "borderline sociopathic tendencies." She asks Annie and Max for the Viewmaster so that she can show it to Shane, only for them to report that it was stolen by the Diazes.
Before they can continue the conversation further, Marco shows up. She tries to hug him, only for him to ask why she hasn't been answering her calls. She tells him that it was a "work thing," but he says that there have been a lot of work things lately, demanding a more honest answer. She tells him that she wants to tell him, but that there's a lot going on and she has to go. He tells her that she has to do better than "work thing" and she admits to having slept with someone else. She then gets a text from Brenda, asking her to call her. "Another work thing?" asks Marco, and she tells him it's her sponsor, but he replies that she doesn't get to play the AA card with him. He asks her to just tell him what happened and she says that she doesn't know, that she just forgot about him. Shocked, he tells her that he could get over the cheating, but that this is too much. She tells him that her life is spiraling out of control, but that she's trying. He tells her he is too, but this is too much. "Bye, Cassie," he tells her, leaving her to hyperventilate in shock.
Cassie heads off to the airport to do the training. She meets up with Shane, who notes her terrible appearance, and she explains about having just been dumped. He tells her that he looked into her situation and that as much he'd like to tell her that she's crazy, the security stills do show the double. He tells, however, that they don't mean much on their own, asking if she brought the Viewmaster. She explains about it being stolen, showing him the psych evaluation pictures instead. He chews her out, warning that the CIA could make her disappear if they wanted to. They are then interrupted by fellow flight attendant Jada, who stops them from chatting so they can do the training, and worse, pairs them up with Carol Atkinson. The training ends up being a disaster due to the ongoing animosity between Cassie and Carol, as well as Cassie's continued distractedness due her personal issues. Things end with Cassie shouting at Carol, asking just what she wants, after Carol accuses her of putting lives at risk by being distracted. She stalks off, shouting at Carol to fuck off.
Cassie then heads to Grace St. James's place, where she just sits on a couch, silently. When Grace asks her if she came to talk or just to sit, Cassie tells her that she just blew up her relationship, that she cannot catch a break and is losing her mind. She apologizes for putting this all on her, saying that she was hoping that Grace didn't know her well enough to judge her. Grace tells her that it's okay, that she's exactly the person that she should come to when the world is falling apart because it's when she does her best work. She tells her that she genuinely likes her and that's something that's not true with most people. She offers Cassie a drink, but Cassie says that she's good. Cassie gets a text from Davey, saying that he's excited about their trip tomorrow and asking how her letter to their father is going. She then goes into the mind palace, where the sparkly gold dress Cassie tells her that just one drink would taste so good. Back in the real world, Cassie tells Grace that she will have the drink. Cassie drinks up and Grace is soon pouring more and more.
Cassie then goes to a local liquor store. There she runs into Jenny, and annoyed, asks her if she's stalking her. She then, however, notices Jenny holding a whiskey bottle and asks her why. Jenny claims to be having issues with her boyfriend and Cassie tells her not to ruin her life over a guy. Jenny asks just what she is doing there and she claims to be buying party supplies. She ushers Jenny away, telling her that sobriety is a journey. The moment that Jenny leaves, however, she grabs two bottles of liquor, buys them, and then takes a huge drink the second she's out and smiles.
Cassie returns home and starts upending stuff all over the place. As she does, she discovers a note from Marco, telling her that he will be buy to get his stuff that week. Sobbing, she crumples up the note and eats it. She drinks some more, then starts roughly packing up Marco's things, then starts tearing up pictures of them. She then calls Dot Karlson, but when she gets no answer, she starts leaving increasingly desperate and profane voicemails. She then calls Shane, only for the call be picked up by Shane's boyfriend, Justin. She tells him that she needs to speak to Shane, saying that he's the only other person at the CIA that she knows. This, however, is news to Justin, who gives the phone to Shane. Shane then chews Cassie out for revealing to Justin that he's with the CIA, saying that he was trying to build a life with him and that she may have just ruined it. She tells him that she's in actual danger, but he replies that she's drunk and that it's sad. He promises to keep digging into her case, but that it has to be good enough for now, and hangs up.
Cassie returns to the mind palace, where she is confronted by one of the alternate versions of herself. This other Cassie tells her that she's a terrible person who doesn't even deserve to exist. In the mind palace, the alternate Cassie rages and tears stuff up. Back in the real world, Cassie does as well, becoming even more vicious than she was before. She finds Davey's "easy does it" bear and squeezes it, causing it to say the phrase. She then finds herself the mind palace, with hundreds all saying it at once. Crazed, she drives drunk to the beach and tosses the bear in the ocean, saying that now she can't hear it anymore.
She returns to the mind palace, where the sparkly gold dress Cassie tells her that the whole thing is tragic. Cassie replies that she wanted her to drink and now she has, but she replies that she was going for sparkly and fun. Cassie tells her that she made her throw away a year of sobriety. "I honestly can't with you," replies the gold dress Cassie, saying that they both know about March 21 and March 23. Cassie asks her she's just going to throw random dates at her, if it's a threat. "A threat? Okay, let's do this," replies the sparkly Cassie, taking her into her own memories. She shows Cassie a scene of herself at a bar getting drunk. "March 21. Six months into your 'year of sobriety'," she tells her, as Cassie watches herself get smashed-out drunk. The scene then changes to Cassie in an overflowing bathtub, drinking again. "March 23, two days later," the sparkly Cassie tells her. "Nobody knows, but you know," comments the sparkly Cassie as, in the memory, a man shouts that Cassie is causing a flood. The sparkly Cassie then tells Cassie that her issue with the whole double thing is "Who the fuck would wanna be you?"
Back on the beach, Cassie sobs, hit with the truth of it all. She pulls out her phone and sends a text. Eventually, Brenda arrives. She thanks her for her text, telling her that she slipped and fell, saying that now her choice is how far she wants to fall. She continues that even after a year, the disease still waits for you, ready to pick up where you left off. Cassie, however, admits to her that it's a lie, that she doesn't have a year. She says that it's why she left New York and that when she came to LA that she lied, that she just wanted her time in New York to have counted. Brenda asks her how she could have driven drunk to the beach, given what her father did, and Cassie admits that she doesn't know.
Cassie sobs that she was doing so well. Brenda, however, tells her that she wasn't. She says that Cassie built her recovery on a house of cards and like any house of cards, it collapsed. She tells her that she won't get anywhere until she takes the first step and admits to being powerless over the dark parts of herself. Cassie tells her that it makes her feel like walking into the ocean and never coming out. Brenda tells her to take it from the woman who tried that it's a hell of a lot easier to just quit drinking. Cassie goes into her mind palace, but the lights go out and it is only her there. Back on the beach, Brenda hugs Cassie and caresses her shoulder, as the broken stuffed bear continues to chatter "easy does it" in the distant waves.
"Brothers & Sisters"[]
Cassie returns home and crashes on the floor. In the morning, Annie and Max discover her. Annie immediately races to her, worried, but then smells the alcohol and realizes what must have happened. She rouses Cassie, who tells her to stop looking at her the way she is, even though she has her eyes closed. Annie suggests that Cassie allow her to decide how she feels, but Cassie tells her to get out. When Annie refuses, she shouts at her, but Annie just hugs her, telling her that she's not going anywhere.
Annie tells Cassie that she fell off the wagon and that happened, saying that nobody expects perfection and she at least made it a year. Cassie, however, reveals the truth, that she did not, in fact, make it a year. When Annie says nothing, Cassie asks if she heard her. She agrees that she did, telling Cassie that the first thing she has to do is start telling the truth about drinking, the second to clean her apartment, and third to trust her best friend Annie. Cassie agrees, saying that she also has to apologize to Marco for being horrible. Annie points out that there's also still the problem of the double. Cassie replies that she's not a CIA agent and that there are other people who can look into it. Annie agrees that this is a big step, making a life change.
Cassie tells Annie that she really wants to sleep, but she's supposed to be flying to New York with Davey to read a forgiveness letter at their father's grave and then go to clean out their old stuff from their mother's house. She says there's no way she can go now, but Annie tells her she should go, that it will be cathartic. There's a knock at the door and it turns out to be Cassie's handler, Benjamin. Annie agrees to handle it while Cassie sneaks out the back. Cassie does so, observing the milky-eyed agent from Berlin the process. She makes her way to the airport and boards her flight with Davey.
Once they are on-board and strapped in with the doors closed, Cassie reveals to Davey that she slipped the night before and that it wasn't the first time. He notes the fact that she waited until they couldn't leave, asking if she's alright. She admits that she isn't. He asks her why they're even going on the trip, but she says it'll be good for them, a new start. He tells her that it's heartbreaking that she threw all the work away and she replies that everything he's saying and feeling is right. As they prepare to take off, he takes her hand.
The two arrive in New York and proceed to the grave of their father, Hank Bowden. There, Cassie pulls out a letter and read it. In it, she tells Hank that that he was funny and fun, her best friend, and taught her so many things. However, he was also an alcoholic and introduced her to drinking. It made her feel special, but then he died, leaving her only with the alcohol. She says that his little girl turned out just like him and she hates it. She finishes by telling him that she loves him, but that she will not be like him, forgiving him for hurting her and their mother.
Following this, they proceed to their mother's house, where Davey seems strangely reluctant to enter. He keeps making excuses, saying that they should get a root beer float, but Cassie won't have it. They head up to the house and open the door. Inside is their mother, which comes as a huge shock to Cassie as Davey had lied to her, telling her that she was on a meditation retreat. She smiles upon seeing Davey, but sours upon the sight of Cassie, saying that Davey might have given her a heads-up. She lets them in, but berates Davey for having brought over Cassie. She says that when the door opened, she thought it was another break-in. Davey asks her why she didn't tell him about the previous break-in and she says that it was just kids. Davey asks Cassie if she ever found out who broke into her place and Cassie quips that she did and that they're good friends now.
This starts a new line of argument, as Lisa asks Davey if Cassie ever told him about her "good friends" who would come in, lock the door, blast the music and steal from her purse. She keeps digging in until finally Cassie shouts "Jesus, Mom!" saying that she didn't know about Davey's plan either, but that she's not being mean about it. Lisa walks away and Davey pleads with her to just let Cassie in, but she replies that she doesn't have the emotional space for her. Cassie then comes over, saying she won't just let them talk about her behind her back. She admits to being the one that stole the money from the purse, but Lisa tells her she already knows. Cassie apologizes, saying that she's taking responsibility for her actions. "Okay," says Lisa and Cassie asks if this is all she gets. Lisa tells her that if this is all she has to say, then they're not really addressing the real issue.
She tells Cassie that nobody is mad at her for what she did as a child. She continues that it's what she did as an adult that mattered, that she convinced her to come and see her, only to find her passed out. She then got a DUI after her father had gotten killed drunk-driving. Cassie shouts at her to stop talking, but Lisa counters that she's just like her father, thinking an apology will wax it all away. She asks her when her last drink was and when Cassie is silent, she says it clears things up. Cassie counters that there are things you learn as a kid that get lodged in your brain. She points out that she stayed when Davey didn't, saying that she spent a lot of time with Hank learning the wrong thing and nobody stepped in to say otherwise. She says that he made her feel special, but she kept disappointing her. She asks just what she has to do to show her that she's doing better. Lisa comes up to her and caresses her face. She tells her that she loves her, but she really doesn't like her. She then slaps her in the face, telling her she's going to work.
Cassie goes over to Davey, who is packing away some of their stuff. He asks her if she's just going to stand there or help, and she tells him she was planning to help before he ambushed her with their mother. She then spots a box labeled "View-master / Teddy and recalls her mother saying that there was a break-in. She then gets a call from Dot Karlson, who tells her that the situation in Berlin is connected to the dead CIA analysts. Cassie tells her about having seen the milky-eyed agent outside her home and Dot refers to him as being "Benjamin Berry's errand boy." She says they can't talk further on the phone, asking if Cassie can meet her in 30 minutes, but Cassie tells her she's in New York. Dot urges her to get back home as soon as possible. Hanging up, Cassie sees a large number of missed texts and calls from Annie. She then goes to a window and sees a North Korean man get out of a car. She shouts at Davey that they have to go.
Cassie and Davey make a beeline out of the house, Davey telling Cassie to follow him, that he knows a place. As the North Korean agents pursue, they hide in a junkyard behind an abandoned car. Davey then admits to Cassie that he had an ulterior motive for the trip. His OCD is getting worse and he snapped at his daughter, Eve, screaming in her face. He felt that he and his husband needed some time apart. He then pulls out a Roman candle firework, part of the possessions that he was packing up. He lights it, then shoves it into the fuel tank. He and Cassie run as the car explodes, successfully creating a distraction that allows them to escape the North Korean agents. As the plane back prepares to take off, Cassie takes a call from Shane. He tells her that he saw a CIA memo regarding the recent murders, about a blonde woman of slim build who travels internationally. He suggests that they meet before she goes anywhere near the CIA. In return, she tells him that Davey identified one of the slides on the Viewmaster as a registration number for a boat at a local port. Meanwhile, at said port, Cassie's double shoots the milky-eyed agent, Jim Jones, in the milky eye. He falls to the ground dead.
"No Exit"[]
Cassie and Shane arrive at the port. They walk up to the boat identified by the registration number, which is named the Cream & Sugar. Shane the notices blood on the ground. He and Cassie cautiously board the boat, only for Shane to pull back a tarp revealing three dead bodies, including that of Jim Jones. Cassie covers her mouth and gags, telling Shane that she knows Jim Jones. She suggests that there could be security footage for them to look at, but he tells her that this isn't a CIA matter right now, that he needs to call the police. Cassie goes into her mind palace, where one of her hallucinations chastises her for thinking only about herself. She is taunted by a vision of the corpses rising from the dead and back in the real world asks Shane if this is all her fault. He assures her that it isn't. She then spots a red glove on the floor and shouts at Shane that it's hers. She goes to pick it up and Shane shouts at her to drop it. She does so, but after he gets on the phone with the police, she secretly pockets it.
Outside the boat, Cassie finds herself being greeted by Jenny. She asks her what she's doing there and she tells her that she heard about there being a murder on her police scanner. She tells Cassie that she thought it would be a good story for her podcast, but Cassie chastises her, telling her that there are real people dead and she's worried about clickbait. Jenny calls her out for being hypocritical, saying that she's not the boss of her. She asks what Cassie is even doing there, but Cassie ignores the question.
Cassie and Shane return to Cassie's place and start discussing the situation. Annie questions the wisdom of Cassie bringing a co-worker into the situation and, to Shane's chagrin, Cassie reveals that he is CIA. He tells her his theory: that the only way the double can frame her is if she's dead. Furthermore, as there is only one Viewmaster slide left, he believes that she is the next target. She stares at him and her phone rings. She rushes into the bathroom to take the call, Annie commenting that it's where everything secretive there. The call turns out to be from Megan, who pleads with Cassie to broker a meeting with Shane, saying that she has evidence to trade.
Annie comes in later and finds Cassie in the bathtub, in a state of distress and eating hot candies. Cassie tells her that she's obviously supposed to die soon, that it's where the arrows are pointing. Before they can really talk about it, however, Max calls them out, saying that he thinks he has something. They leave the bathroom and he tells them that he thinks the last Viewmaster slide is of a ride at Pacific Park at Santa Monica Pier. Additionally, he says that whatever's going down there has to happen today because tomorrow it's going to be shut down for a month-long renovation. "What is that?" he then asks, his eyes going over to something on an upper counter. Cassie reaches over and to her shock grabs a bloody knife. Shane then returns, having stealthily exited the room, and reports that the back-door was jimmied open.
Cassie goes into her mind palace. There, she confronts a sulky, depressing version of herself who tells her that she needs to go to the pier, that it's like a suicide run. She says that maybe she'll die and that she deserves to, that she's a broken, self-absorbed person. Back in her apartment, Cassie grabs a box-cutter declaring that she's going to the pier. Annie pleads with her not to, telling her that the double is obviously several steps ahead of her, given the bloody knife. Shane also tells her that she's not going, but Cassie insists that she is and will the second he leaves. Giving in, he tells her that he'll protect her and that she must follow all of his instructions. Annie and Max make to leave as well, but he tells them to stay. As soon as he and Cassie exit, however, they move to leave as well.
Shane and Cassie make their way to Pacific Park. Along the way, Cassie mentions Megan, intimating that she is back in the states and suggesting in not so many words that she wants to make a deal. Shane, however, tells her that if she sees Megan, he'll send her to federal prison and that they'll discuss later her low-key admitting to aiding a known fugitive. He indicates a bench and tells her to stay put while he looks around and to text him if she sees the double. He takes off and almost immediately Cassie sees the double. She texts Shane, but then ignores his instructions and follows. She spots the double on a merry-go-round and boards it herself. On-board the merry-go-round, she finds herself spinning around in the mind palace, then sees her double gets off and follows.
Cassie gets a call from Dot, who tells her that the CIA is putting together a task force to investigate the murders. Cassie tells her that she's at Santa Monica Pier and the double is there. Dot replies that it's not safe and she needs to get out, warning her to not engage if she sees Benjamin Berry. She then hangs up, saying she's on her way. Not long after, Cassie spots Benjamin. He makes her way towards her, calling her name, but she bolts and escapes onto a teacup Ferris wheel ride. She rides it to the top, where she watches as below Shane approaches Benjamin from behind. She then sees both Shane and Benjamin appear to double over and fall. "Come with me," says a voice, which turns out to be the young version of herself.
The young Cassie loads Cassie into an elevator, the two of them managing to elude the suicidal, depressing Cassie. The elevator takes Cassie up to a room and inside is her mother standing at a window. Cassie comments that it isn't her mother, but the young Cassie tells her that it's the closest she's going to get to her. Cassie goes over, asking Lisa if she wants her to apologize to her. Lisa replies that she's not sure she's ready to accept it yet. She tells Cassie that she's powerless to make her feel any way, just as she's powerless when somebody puts a drink in her hand. She tells her that she can't do anything but accept it. She tells her that she loves her and that she wouldn't be saying if it didn't exist outside. She says that she needs to be patient, with her, with others and with herself. Cassie then has a vision of a massive version of Davey's "easy does it" bear rising from the sea and taking off its sunglasses. She sobs.
Cassie returns to the ground and exits the Ferris wheel, only for her double to come straight up to her. "Cassie" she says in Grace St. James's voice. "Let's go," she tells her, revealing a gun. Cassie tells the attendant that she wants to go on the ride again, bringing Grace with her. They sit together and Grace curses. As they arrive at the top, Cassie tells her that she knew it was her, even though she didn't want it to be. She asks her just why she's doing this, and Grace replies that she doesn't want to be doing any of it. Cassie tells her that nobody can make her do anything, not Benjamin Berry or anyone. Grace, however, replies that Benjamin certainly can't make her do anything, that she just stabbed him.
"Wait, what?" asks Cassie. She pulls out her box-cutter, but Grace flicks it away, telling Cassie that she's a trained assassin. She tells her that them both begin together on the ride messed up the whole plan. Cassie asks her why she's the one freaking out and she replies that it is all much bigger than Cassie knows. She tells her that she got out of the army, only to be forced back into doing what she hated: killing for someone else. She says that there is nowhere to go, but Cassie tells her there's always a way out. Grace says that she killed people and that she's going to prison and she never had a choice. Cassie tells her to listen, asking her to tell her who's making her do all this. She tells her she does have a choice. "You're right, I do have a choice," agrees Grace, taking the gun and shooting herself in the head. The ride reaches the ground, Grace's blood all over Cassie's face as she pants in shock.
"Backwards and Forwards"[]
In the aftermath of the events at Pacific Park, Cassie is in a hospital bathroom, washing the blood off her face. The suicidal version of herself tells her that Grace had the right idea, to just get it over with. She tells Cassie that doesn't want to wait around while she blows up her life one piece at a time, taunting her with visions. She then gets a text from Megan. She exits the bathroom and goes to find Annie and Max in a waiting room. Annie asks her if she's alright and she tells them that she is. She calls them out for coming to the park, asking if they're nuts, but Annie asks if she would have really just sat around knitting a sweater. Cassie admits that she has a point, though she tells her she can't knit.
Dot Karlson then shows up. She takes Cassie aside, telling her that she needs to tell her something important, even though it's classified. She shows Cassie a photo of two doubles, telling her that Grace was not working alone. She asks Cassie to come with her for her safety. Cassie agrees, but asks for a few minutes first. Dot consents to this, telling her to hurry. Cassie then goes to Shane's hospital room, where he is recovering from Grace's stab wounds. She tells him that she needs a favor and he replies that he's still recovering from the last one. She then ushers Megan into the room. He reaches for his hospital phone, but Cassie shouts at him not to touch it. She pleads with him to hear her out, telling him that she's their friend. In her mind palace, the suicidal Cassie taunts her, telling her that she's only helping Megan to feel good about herself. Back in the real world, Cassie tells Shane that she was so focused on stopping Grace that she almost got herself killed. She urges Shane not to be like her and to think about what's on the other side. Shane tells Megan that he would need total transparency and Cassie tells him that she knows. She then goes to Annie and Max, asking them if they still have the laptop they took from the Diazes.
Cassie then joins back up with Dot. They get into her car and head for CIA headquarters, but find themselves stuck in traffic. Cassie asks Dot if they can go to her apartment first, telling her that she could really use a shower. Dot, however, suggests that they go to her own place instead, saying that it's closer and they're not getting anywhere in the traffic anyway. They do and Dot leads Cassie upstairs to her shower, promising her a tour after she gets cleaned up. She walks off and Cassie starts looking around. To her shock, she discovers a picture of Dot wearing the same military uniform as Grace, as well as a bottle of Santal 33, the perfume that she smelled on the double. She realizes that Dot is the mastermind of the whole conspiracy. She calls Annie, revealing what she just put together and the fact that she's at Dot's place right now. She asks if Max is there and when Annie agrees that he is, she asks him to remotely set off an alarm at Dot's place, promising to text him the address.
She does so and Max sets off the alarm. Cassie races downstairs, only to run smack into Dot, who silences the alarm. Dot then points out that Cassie's breathing is quicker and her pupils are dilated. She suggests that Cassie tell her what she thinks she's figured out. Cassie lays it out, saying that she thinks that Dot helped Grace get out of the military somehow. Dot replies that it's not her fault if Grace felt indebted to her, calling Grace one of a number of broken tools that she's used, like Cassie. She outlines how when she first saw Cassie's file, she realized how easy it would be to make her fit the profile of a rogue operative. She admits to having planted the Viewmaster, knowing that Cassie couldn't resist a puzzle. Cassie tells her that nobody will believe her, but she replies that people believe the person who is arrived, telling Cassie that she will shoot her if she moves forward.
In her mind palace, the suicidal Cassie tells her that the ringing sound in her ears isn't tinnitus but self-hate. Cassie shouts at her to shut up, literally blowing her back. She tells her that she can make any self-hating joke she wants, but that she just saw somebody take her own life and she would never do that. She tells her that the comment about tinnitus gave her an idea. Back in the real world, she pulls out the personal safety alarm given her to by Miranda and sounds it. She then races away, only to be intercepted by two agents. Dot shouts at them to arrest Cassie, but they come over and arrest her instead.
That evening, Cassie meets with Benjamin on the roof of Dot's apartment. She asks him how he knew about Dot and he replies that he saw things in Cassie's file that were obvious fabrications. He then started looking into Dot and things unfolded that she had been selling access to CIA records for years. He tells her that it's lucky that he got a report of Dot bringing her there, which was a serious breach of protocol. He continues that it's good that they were able to get there before Dot found a reason to shoot her. He asks her to come to the office for a debrief and she asks if they can just debrief about this and not what went down previously in his office. He agrees that they'll go with "the very adult 'I don't remember what happened in the office.'"
Cassie then checks her phone and discovers two texts from her brother Davey: "I SCREWED UP" and "I CAN'T GO HOME." Wondering just what he's going on about, she calls him, only for it to be Jenny who answers. She asks her why she has Davey's phone and she replies that Davey was manic and threw it. She says he was ranting about his kids and now he's in her backyard pacing and yelling. She tells Cassie that she was about to call the cops. Cassie apologizes, telling her not to do that, that she'll come and take care of it if she sends her the address.
Cassie arrives at a large, well-appointed home. Jenny tells her that it belonged to her grandmother and that she's been cleaning it out, even though her boyfriend suggested it would be better not for her to hang on to it. They head upstairs and Cassie is shocked to discover Davey passed out on a couch. She races over and tries to rouse him, setting down her phone in the process. As she tries unsuccessfully to wake Davey, her phone rings with a text from Annie. She turns, only to find Jenny holding both the phone and a hammer. She sets the phone down, then smashes it with the hammer. Cassie goes over to Davey, shouting at him to wake up, but Jenny tells her that she's doped him up so much that he won't be waking any time soon. Cassie asks if this is all because she didn't want to do her podcast, but she shouts at her that there's no podcast. She further states that her being an alcoholic was all a lie and that it isn't even her house, but that of some sweet old lady who doesn't lock her doors.
Jenny steps aside, revealing a wall covered with pictures of herself and Feliks, the duplicitous assassin that Cassie foiled a year before, along with the phrase "Mr. and Mrs. Feliks." Along with these are pictures of Alex Sokolov and Cassie, accompanying by words such as "traitor" and "liar." Cassie recalls Jenny having repeatedly mentioned a boyfriend and asks her how this all happened. Jenny then spins the tale for Cassie, revealing that when she read about Feliks on the Internet, she knew she had to meet him. She went to him in prison, only for him to tell her that he couldn't get Cassie out of his mind. He asked her to watch her, study her, and tell him everything, suggesting that maybe he could love her if Cassie was out of the way. Cassie tells her to listen to her, that Feliks is a master manipulator, but Jenny replies that he told her she'd say that. She tells Cassie that she needs to stop blaming others and holds up the hammer, saying that she's going to put her out of her misery.
In the mind palace, Cassie finds herself with all of the various versions of herself. She asks them why they won't just go away and the sparkly gold dress Cassie asks why she won't let them. Cassie then finally realizes that this is all her, that she's the one who's keeping them there. She tells them they have to run. Back in the real world, Cassie makes a mad dash, managing to elude Jenny. They begin a game of cat and mouse until finally Cassie leaps out of a closet at Jenny. As she does so, the various versions of herself disappear one by one, being absorbed back into her, until finally it is all her together, facing off against Jenny. Cassie then watches Davey approach Jenny from behind as she admits to Jenny to being a "deeply flawed, sad alcoholic narcissistic thrill addict." She tells her that she doesn't like it, but it is who she is, and it's enough for her.
Cassie tells Jenny to fuck off. Jenny raises the hammer, but Davey smacks her in the back of the head with a frying pan. Cassie then grabs a vase and shatters it over her head for good measure, knocking her to the floor and out. She asks Davey if he's okay. She comments that Feliks really messed Jenny up, but Davey replies that she was already pretty messed up to begin with, but at least now she will be locked up somewhere.
About a month later, Cassie takes a video-call with Davey and his husband Rick. Davey is now attending meetings of AlAnon and doing yoga. After the call, there is a knock at the door and Cassie invites in Brenda. She hands her some boxes of donuts, apologizing, though Brenda tells her she's only missing one meeting. Cassie says that she felt bad, then starts to leave, saying that she's in a rush. Brenda, however, stops her, asking how it feels to be a month sober. Cassie tells her that it's good, that she knows at least that she's not going to have a drink today.
Cassie boards a flight. She then makes a call to her mother. Lisa asks what she wants, suggesting maybe they could talk later. Cassie, however, tells her that she wants her to know that she heard her, that it couldn't have been easy to say what she said to her. "No," admits Lisa and Cassie tells her she knows she hurt her a lot. She tells her she's trying and that she hopes she can see that, even if it might take a while. She suggests she could watch from a safe distance. As the announcement comes on telling passengers to discontinue the use of phones, Cassie tells her she has to go. She thanks her for listening and Lisa finishes the sentence, saying "I hope we can talk again. Very soon." "Me too," agrees Cassie, and they tell each other that they love each other.
Cassie's flight touches down in Las Vegas, Nevada. She heads to a chapel, which is hosting the wedding of Annie and Max. She sits next to Shane, who chastises her for inviting him as her date and then showing up late. She tells him that Annie and Max are planning to start a PI firm. He calls it "very 1979 Hart to Hart," but she pleads being too young to get the reference. He tells her has to leave early for a work flight and she asks if it's a "work flight or a work flight," quipping that they have to stop talking about the job they don't have or Benjamin will fire. He then tells her in confidence that Dot was a very bad person who put a lot of agents at risk and some in the ground. Therefore, for her part in stopping her, Cassie is golden with the CIA.
Cassie congratulates Annie, who admits to still not quite believing that she's gotten married. Cassie tells her to just enjoy it. Annie then tells her that because she wants her to be happy, she's going to do a thing and Cassie has to play along. However, Cassie protests when she tosses a bouquet and refuses to catch it. She, Annie and Max then dance together to the song "Suspicious Minds," performed by an Elvis impersonator.
Relationships[]
Alex Sokolov[]
Cassie had a one-night stand with Alex Sokolov, then awoke to find him dead on the bed next to her. She chose to flee after cleaning up the room and the blood off herself, having barely any memory of the night before. She is now haunted by hallucinations in which she talks with a version of Alex who seems to know only what she knows, an aspect of her unconscious mind. Talking with the hallucinatory Alex helps Cassie to face certain aspects of both her past and present, and she eventually is able to leave behind the memory of him for good as she moves forward with her life.
Annie Mouradian[]
Annie Mouradian is Cassie's best friend and naturally the person she thinks to turn to when she needs a lawyer. Annie likes Cassie, but is sometimes troubled by her erratic behavior. Despite their closeness, Annie still has been keeping secrets from Cassie, such as an apparent boyfriend named Max, though Annie claims the two of them aren't actually boyfriend and girlfriend. Although Annie and Cassie's relationship goes through a rough patch, ultimately Annie proves to be a true friend to Cassie, risking herself and her career.
Megan Briscoe[]
Megan Briscoe is Cassie's supervisor. Despite this, they are also good friends and Megan considers Cassie to be her best friend, admiring how she seemingly does whatever she wants and people still like her. The personal drama in both of their lives causes them to fall out for a time, but they eventually reconcile and share their deepest truths with each other.
Approximately one year later, Megan is on the run internationally after having sold secrets about her husband's classified work to North Korean agents. Cassie maintains intermittent contact with her. When Megan sends her a cryptic emoji message, she rushes to her aid, not realizing that she misinterpreted the message. Cassie desperately wishes to help Megan as a friend, but doesn't realize that Megan is much more capable than she thinks.
Buckley Ware[]
Buckley Ware, a.k.a. "Feliks," is a man that Cassie meets in a bar. The two have what at first seems like a one-night stand, but they have apparent chemistry with each other and keep going out. In truth, Buckley Ware is secretly an assassin hired by Victor and has been secretly dogging Cassie's footsteps ever since Bangkok. He claims that his attraction to her is genuine, but in truth he is a ruthless killer and the person who really killed Alex Sokolov. Everything Cassie she knows about him is turned upside down upon learning his true identity as Feliks.
Marco[]
Approximately one year after the whole Alex Sokolov situation, Marco is Cassie's steady boyfriend. On the surface, theirs seems like the perfect romance. Cassie, however, is reluctant when Marco suggests that the two of them begin living together and it is clear that she has commitment issues. She then makes a potentially relationship-ending mistake when she waltzes off to Iceland to help a friend without telling him what she's doing, then thoughtlessly has sex with her CIA handler.
Personality[]
As a flight attendant, Cassandra Bowden seems fairly well put together, more than capable of fulfilling her job, traveling internationally, and putting discomfited passengers at ease. However, this confident exterior belies a troubled past and personal worries which she tries to drown out with copious amounts of alcohol and one-night stands. She does not hold up well under questioning, buckling easy to pressure. After waking up to find Alex dead, she develops an obsessive belief that she will be arrested and charged with his murder unless she can solved the case herself. Spurred on by this idea, she begins making a series of risky and questionable decisions. Although she claims that she became a flight attendant because she wanted to help people, a series of revelations is helping her to see that she's really the type of person who is attracted to and excited by disaster. Her experience with Alex Sokolov ultimately changes her and she resolves to go on the wagon, but admits to her friend Annie that it is a real struggle.
One year later, Cassie has moved to Los Angeles and has seemingly committed to sobriety while also now having a steady boyfriend named Marco. She attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and things seem to be going well for her as she continues to work as a flight attendant, while serving as a civilian asset for the Central Intelligence Agency. However, it quickly becomes clear that Cassie's new life is built on a house of cards. She continues to exhibit thrill-seeking behavior and the death of a Mark in Berlin causes her to once again experience hallucinations, this time of alternate versions of herself. She is eventually forced to confront the fact that her recovery is a sham and that she has actually relapsed at least twice during her "year of sobriety" but suppressed the memory of having done so. Ultimately, it is only by truly accepting that she is in many ways a deeply flawed person and that she cannot solve these issues by herself or without total honesty that she finally is able to move forward.
Appearances[]
- Season One
- "In Case of Emergency"
- "Rabbits"
- "Funeralia"
- "Conspiracy Theories"
- "Other People's Houses"
- "After Dark"
- "Hitchcock Double"
- "Arrivals and Departures"
- Season Two
- "Seeing Double"
- "Mushrooms, Tasers, and Bears, Oh My!"
- "The Reykjavik Ice Sculpture Festival Is Lovely This Time of Year"
- "Blue Sincerely Reunion"
- "Drowning Women"
- "Brothers & Sisters"
- "No Exit"
- "Backwards and Forwards"
Trivia[]
- In the original The Flight Attendant novel, Cassandra Bowden is revealed to be pregnant at the end of the story and changes herself and her drinking habits in part because of this. In an interview, show creator Steve Yockey stated that this was something that was changed for the television series, as both he and Kaley Cuoco felt that the show they were making was about a woman who decides to change for herself and not for someone else.[2]
Gallery[]
"In Case of Emergency"[]
"Rabbits"[]
"Funeralia"[]
"Conspiracy Theories"[]
"Other People's Houses"[]
"Seeing Double"[]
"Mushrooms, Tasers, and Bears, Oh My!"[]
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ Ng, Philiana (November 17, 2020). Kaley Cuoco on Shedding Her 'Big Bang Theory' Skin for 'The Flight Attendant' (Exclusive). Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on November 17, 2020.
- ↑ Ng, Philiana (December 17, 2020). 'The Flight Attendant' Creator Answers All the Biggest Finale Questions (Exclusive). Entertainment Weekly via Kare 11. Retrieved on December 19, 2020.