Lioness Season 3 Opens With CIA Hunt for 1 Russian Officer in Donetsk
Updated
Updated · Esquire · Aug 2
Lioness Season 3 Opens With CIA Hunt for 1 Russian Officer in Donetsk
3 articles · Updated · Esquire · Aug 2
Summary
Six months before Joe McNamara’s apparent kidnapping, the Season 3 premiere sends her CIA team to Donetsk to identify and capture a senior Russian officer only she can confirm.
The operation plays out across trenches, a bunker and underground tunnels, with drones, dogs and heavy gunfire framing the battlefield as a hybrid of World War I and futuristic surveillance war.
Joe survives a second threat at home the same night, shooting 2 men posing as state police after they try to force entry, reinforcing the episode’s hint that her cover may have been compromised.
The premiere opens with Joe being seized from her car, then flashes back, setting up that abduction as the season’s central mystery while expanding Lioness from cartel and Iran-linked plots into the Ukraine war.