Welcome to the podcast maneuver, the officially unofficial podcast for Star Trek

Card on Paramount Plus. I'm Jim. I'm Aaron. And today we're talking about season two episode eight

title mercy. I think this is the screener screener title. So subject to change could be mercy

to be put at the sea of her cards French roots. Yeah, this one. This one's going back to the

the different roots though. This one's going back to agent molders roots and why he became an FBI

agent in the first place. Sure. Yeah, let's talk about this episode. What do you think about it?

First of all, quality wise. I want to say it was better than the previous week's episode,

but in some real stupid shit starts happening at the end. Oh yeah. And I'm really curious to see

how they they get. Yeah, I'm really I'm really curious to see how they recover. How they finished

all this up. Do you think because they said that, well, first of all, what did you think? And

then I want to talk about the shape of the rest of the season, the final episode and season three.

I didn't hate this episode. I thought it was better than the last one. It's still not great.

There are a couple of moments that are just straight up infuriating the stuff that's happening

with Gerrotti eating batteries and the aftermath of that. I'm just like, are you kidding me?

We'll get there. The FBI agent story. I kind of liked it, but boy, there was a scene that just

kind of inferred a lot. And you had maybe I'm just stupid, but I really had to sit down and think,

okay, what is this man saying happened behind the scenes? Because I am very confused.

So we'll talk about that scene when we get to it. But other than that, I didn't have any huge

problems with it. Yeah, I just I they acknowledge that Raffi is kind of all over the place,

right? And there might be a reason for that instead of just like, oh, she's

I don't know, bipolar or something. Like she actively manipulates people and maybe she's just

like saying and doing a lot of things that she thinks people want here or need to hear in order

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