This episode marks the appearance of the worst character and actress in this show - Cara Buono as Martine Rousseau. Her character is unrealistically robotic and inexplicably devoted. Mizz Buono herself obviously cannot master an enormously difficult role. She walks like a coat hanger, talks like an answering machine and really doesn't know what to do with the task at hand. The bloody DOG does a better acting job as Bear.
All throughout the series her character remains a badly designed crutch needed to show how ruthless Greer is who himself remains a cardboard cutout villain. WHY she was introduced is difficult to explain. They had the cutesy five-o'clock-shadow guy and "Zachary". Why not use those two. Other than a union-agreed quota for female characters, I cannot imagine why they needed "Martine". Why Sarah Shahi couldn't give Buono a few tips on how to play ruthless assassins is hard to tell but easy to imagine - who wants two Shaws in one show.
All throughout the series her character remains a badly designed crutch needed to show how ruthless Greer is who himself remains a cardboard cutout villain. WHY she was introduced is difficult to explain. They had the cutesy five-o'clock-shadow guy and "Zachary". Why not use those two. Other than a union-agreed quota for female characters, I cannot imagine why they needed "Martine". Why Sarah Shahi couldn't give Buono a few tips on how to play ruthless assassins is hard to tell but easy to imagine - who wants two Shaws in one show.