Quantico (season 2)

Quantico (season 2)

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Country of origin United States
Release
Original network ABC
Original release September 25, 2016 (2016-09-25) – present (present)

The second season of the American television thriller series Quantico was ordered on March 3, 2016, by ABC.[1] The show will continue to air in the same time slot as the first season on Sundays at 10:00 p.m.[2] The season will see Alex and her training in the CIA after leaving the FBI at the end of last season.[3] The second season premiered on September 25, 2016.[4] After the mid-season finale, it was announced that Quantico had been moved to Mondays at 10:00 p.m., and will begin airing on January 23, 2017.[5]

Overview

After the roller-coaster events of season one, in which she cleared her name, saved millions of lives, and discovered that the mastermind behind it all was the very man who had trained her at Quantico, American heroine Alex Parrish was given a shocking reward: She was fired by the FBI. But in the final moments of the season finale, she was given the chance to serve her country again, in the clandestine ranks of United States’ top intelligence agency, the CIA. When season two begins, Alex finds herself at “The Farm”, the CIA’s mysterious training facility.[6]

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
231"Kudove"Patrick NorrisJoshua Safran & Logan SlakterSeptember 25, 2016 (2016-09-25)2013.64[7]
Alex is walking through New York and gets suspicious of mysterious white vans driving around. As she calls Shelby to have her run a photo of someone she believes she killed months earlier, the white vans go into formation and blow up intersections, blocking off the Financial District of Lower Manhattan and isolating those inside. With Ryan and Raina in Federal Hall National Memorial for the G20 summit, the terrorists' (calling themselves "Citizen's Liberation Front") target, Alex infiltrates to try and find out who is behind the terror attack. After giving into the terrorists' wishes, the hostages are split up and the First Lady of the United States is beheaded. In flashbacks, Alex has now started at the CIA, but is working for the FBI in order to see if someone on the inside is really a homegrown terrorist. After she is taken into the CIA Farm training camp, she finds out that Ryan has also been recruited by the FBI and the CIA to spy on the Farm. During the first training exercise, Alex tries to be a hero, but her actions backfire in the CIA world where the mission always comes first.
242"Lipstick"Patrick NorrisCami DelavigneOctober 2, 2016 (2016-10-02)2023.57[8]
In the second week at the Farm, the CIA trainees are learning how to avoid surveillance. While Ryan is secretly followed by the Farm's lead instructor, Owen, Alex, as the target, only partially completes the assignment, having failed to identify her lead surveillor. Despite this, Owen and Lydia, his subordinate, both commend Ryan and Alex for their work. In the present timeline, after noticing that CLF's personnel have been switching places with some of the hostages, Raina tries to identify one of them by injuring the masked individual's wrist while her group of hostages is being cycled out. As they cycle the hostages back in, CLF responds by giving everyone the same cut, including Raina. Meanwhile, Alex, with the help of the police officer she met earlier, manages to find an NYPD emergency bunker under Federal Hall National Memorial, right before he sacrifices himself. She successfully calls Miranda; however, the latter then texts one of CLF's personnel, revealing that Alex is inside.
253"Stescalade"Jennifer LynchBeth SchacterOctober 16, 2016 (2016-10-16)2033.04[9]
After Raina’s plan backfires, Ryan tries to do the same thing by creating a diversion involving his ex-classmate at the Farm, Harry Doyle, but it also fails, compromising Alex and Ryan (who is taken by the terrorists somewhere) in the process. Alex gets into a fight with another terrorist and ultimately kills her, after which the former drops the latter’s dead body into the building, leaving a message for the terrorists. Meanwhile, Miranda, still in contact with the terrorists, suspects that the group investigated by Alex and Ryan at the Farm (dubbed the “AIC”) may be behind the attack. In flashbacks to the Farm, the CIA trainees begin their assessment training in a forest nearby, but they fail even after they manage to make it back. Alex and Ryan cooperate with their respective handlers, Shelby and Nimah, to plant a bug in one of their classmates' rooms, but it records only interference as someone else, who might know their plan, has already planted another bug. Later, in an effort to learn more about Alex, a disguised Harry meets one of her colleagues from the FBI: Will Olsen.
264"Kubark"Steve RobinJordon NardinoOctober 23, 2016 (2016-10-23)2042.79[10]
CLF offers to give about 1,700 hostages in exchange for a hacker, who was given a presidential pardon during "Kudove." Alex is able to talk to Raina, and tries to get her to give a message to Miranda. Shelby tries to tell the FBI not to accept the exchange, but they go ahead with it under Miranda's request. Raina tries to give Alex's message to Miranda, and Alex tries to stop the exchange, but both are unsuccessful. Shelby finds a message from the hacker, telling her that Miranda is "one of them." The hacker, unwilling to follow CLF's orders, kills himself. In flashbacks, the trainees must learn to deal with stress, and learn to keep their heart-rate and stress levels down when dealing with their weaknesses. Alex and Ryan decide to clone Owen's phone, which is recording the trainees' records of stress. Alex's weakness is Self-Doubt, and the CIA think that Ryan's weakness is Authority. Ryan tells Alex that she is his weakness, which is why he is keeping his distance. Using the data cloned from Owen's phone, Leigh was shown to have high stress levels when Ryan asked her about using a bug, suggesting that Leigh was the one who planted the bug.
275"Kmforget"Jennifer LynchCameron LitvackOctober 30, 2016 (2016-10-30)2052.43[11]
Alex manages to escape from the terrorists with the help of one of them after getting cornered, but she later finds Lydia, who somehow manages to escape as well. Meanwhile, Miranda, learning of the hacker’s death, decides to order Shelby to find Will, who has similar capability to hack computers to figure out the terrorists’ plans. Shelby, who still distrusts Miranda, warns Will about her, but he convinces Shelby of Miranda’s innocence and later calls the latter to reveal his knowledge of her secrets. In the flashbacks to the Farm, the trainees learn how to escape from a situation without getting noticed. Alex and Ryan succeed; they choose to frame Harry, whom their handlers warn them about after they all realize he uses Will. However, he manages to come back, revealing that he is a spy for MI6 and that he was the one who bugged Alex’s room (and also Ryan’s). Meanwhile, Owen blackmails the journalist who publicly leaks his name. Shelby and another CIA trainee, León, meet each other by chance.
286"Aquiline"Hanelle CulpepperJorge ZamaconaNovember 6, 2016 (2016-11-06)2062.20[12]
Lydia tells Alex that CLF is after a set of hard drives which contain valuable information, but needs a hacker to decrypt them. When Alex and Lydia find the drives, Alex thinks that they should be destroyed, but is knocked out by Lydia. She leaves Alex tied up, and sets off an alarm. Meanwhile, Raina is brought back with the remaining hostages. Together, with Dayana, Leigh, Harry, Leon, and Sebastian, they try to figure out what connects them. CLF later publicly executes Leigh after finding flaws in her information during her interrogation. It is revealed that Raina is actually Nimah, who is working with CLF, and the real Raina is tied up. In flashbacks to the Farm, the trainees must discuss whether to use a drone to kill a potential terrorist given the data they have, but are uncertain if the data are accurate. While the rest of the group says Yes, Alex says No. However, Owen initiates the drone strike anyway, telling them that the data were accurate. Harry still wants information from Ryan about why he's here undercover. Nimah finds out that Shelby has been getting close to Leon, and suggests that she goes undercover.
297"Lcflutter"Steve RobinGideon YagoNovember 13, 2016 (2016-11-13)2072.75[13]
Alex successfully looses herself and finds the phone number of CLF's outside contact, who, unbeknownst to her, is Miranda. She only manages to tell Shelby the first six digits of the number, and is soon caught by the terrorists, who ask her about the drives. They bring in Dayana for torture; when they threaten to break Dayana's spinal cord, Alex reveals that Lydia took the drives and they leave them to find Lydia. Harry, Sebastian and León soon rescue the two. Meanwhile Vice President Claire Haas has been sworn in as President, invoking the 25th Amendment. In flashbacks to the Farm, Owen teaches the trainees interrogation techniques by having them torture him so that they extort his CIA alias. While Alex and Harry feel that they are going too far, the rest of the trainees believe they are not going far enough, and start waterboarding Lydia in front of Owen until he finally cracks. Alex feels being cut from the FBI mission when her colleagues are meeting without her, given her failure to gather information. Shelby must choose between going undercover and never seeing León again. A cellphone call wakens Ryan outside the Farm, telling him he has been selected.
308"Odenvy"Reza TabriziJustin BrennemanNovember 27, 2016 (2016-11-27)2082.29[14]
With her ex-classmates, Alex plans to find and disarm the biological agent that CLF has been threatening to release to the whole of New York. Meanwhile, the US Northern Command general informs Miranda and Shelby of the plan to attack 28 Liberty Street where CLF and the hostages are; the two oppose it. In flashbacks, the trainees are permitted to celebrate Thanksgiving outside the Farm only if they succeed in creating a cover story to protect their loved ones. Alex is officially cut from the FBI mission, prompting her to go on by herself; Harry heads back for England to inform his handler of his post-Brexit mission in the Farm; and Ryan, Dayana and León are given specific orders by the same mysterious contact, leading to an innocent’s murder; successful, the mission proves to be a leverage, with the contact’s threatening of their ruin should they conduct any treason. Back to the present, Alex and Sebastian find the agent and realize that it is to be released only in the crisis zone. After the others shiftily join them, CLF captures them all. Taken separately as a gunshot is heard, Alex is then kicked out of the perimeter by Ryan, who is in alliance with CLF.
319TBAGideon Raff[15]TBAJanuary 23, 2017 (2017-01-23)[5]209TBD

Cast

Regular cast

Recurring cast

Production

Development

Quantico was renewed for a second season on March 3, 2016, by ABC.[1] On April 22, 2016, The New York Times reported that the production of the show would be moving to New York City for the second season. Show-creator Joshua Safran said that the reason for the move was because "Season 2 is going to be very much more a New York story."[23] It was later announced that the second season will premiere on September 25, 2016.[4] Filming for the second season started on July 13, 2016, confirmed by Priyanka Chopra.[24] On August 10, 2016, Chopra shared the promotional poster for the second season on Instagram.[25][26] It was announced after the mid-season finale had aired, that the show will move to Mondays 10:00 p.m. beginning with the mid-season premiere on January 23, 2017.[5]

Writing

Safran called the second season more "cohesive",[3] and will be structured like the first season as he said "Season 2 will keep the two storyline structure. This one is one full story, and then one slow thing. It’s a cleaner build, that’s the best I can say. It will be less confusing." but the season is structured "a little bit slower"[16] In another interview, Safran confirmed that the structured would be "a little bit of flash forward, but the majority will be, what I like to call, the present."[27]

Safran talked about the differences between the FBI and CIA as he said "We're very interested in the fact that the FBI's so much about being honest, truthful and living up to your badge. And the CIA is the opposite. You succeed if you can deceive. So it's going to be interesting to see. It's like a funhouse mirror of what we've seen."[28]

Casting

After the first season had aired, showrunner Joshua Safran confirmed that the series regulars from the previous season would return for the second season, except Josh Hopkins, Tate Ellington and Anabelle Acosta whose characters were killed off in the first season.[16] Safran expressed interest in bringing back Marcia Cross as Claire Haas after it was revealed that she was involved in the bombing scheme last season.[16] He also revealed that they were in discussion of getting Revenge-alum Henry Czerny in the second season as the character he played in the finale is important for the story in season 2.[16] The Hollywood Reporter announced on June 3, 2016, that Russell Tovey had joined the show as a series regular and will be playing Harry Doyle, described as a mischievous gadabout.[17] It was reported on June 16, 2016, that the show was looking for an African-American actress in her late 20s to play a new agent named Lydia.[29]

On July 5, 2016, it was announced that Blair Underwood will join the series as a series regular, playing CIA officer Owen Hall.[19] Deadline reported on July 12, 2016, that South-African actress Pearl Thusi had joined the show as a series regular for the second season. She will play Dayana Mampasi, a driven, disciplined, type-A lawyer.[18] Aarón Díaz was announced to have joined the show for the second season in a recurring role as photojournalist León Velez.[20] On July 19, 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Tracy Ifeachor and David Lim was added as recurring cast, and will be playing Lydia Bates and Sebastian Chen, respectively.[21] Deadline reported on July 28, 2016, that Henry Czerny had been added as a major recurring role as Matthew Keyes, who he portrayed in the first-season finale.[22] On August 2, 2016, it was announced that Aarón Díaz was promoted to a series regular role in the second season of Quantico.[30]

Ratings

No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Kudove" September 25, 2016 1.0/3 3.64[7] 1.0 3.15 2.0 6.79[31]
2 "Lipstick" October 2, 2016 1.0/3 3.57[8] 1.0 2.87 2.0 6.44[32]
3 "Stescalade" October 16, 2016 0.8/3 3.04[9] 1.0 2.74 1.8 5.78[33]
4 "Kubark" October 23, 2016 0.7/3 2.79[10] 1.0 2.51 1.7 5.30[34]
5 "Kmforget" October 30, 2016 0.6/2 2.43[11] 0.9 2.66 1.5 5.09[35]
6 "Aquiline" November 6, 2016 0.6/2 2.20[12] 0.8 2.42 1.4 4.62[36]
7 "Lcflutter" November 13, 2016 0.7/2 2.75[13] 0.8 2.31 1.5 5.06[37]
8 "Odenvy" November 27, 2016 0.7/2 2.29[14] TBD TBD TBD TBD
9 "TBA" January 23, 2017 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

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