angela’s eyes
eyes wide shut (10/13)

Continuing tonight on Five is the US drama series that focuses on the work of Angela Henson – an FBI agent with a unique talent for seeing through lies. In tonight’s episode, an old friend of Leo’s is murdered while working undercover, and Angela suspects that the man was a dishonest cop.

While Leo and Dozer are working surveillance on money-launderers Barone and Jackson, they are both surprised when Angela arrives, having cut short her sick leave after being shot (see last week’s episode, ‘Lyin’ Eyes’). She brushes aside their concerns and joins the surveillance operation, watching Barone and Jackson as they wait for a go-between to arrive.

When the contact turns up, Leo recognises him as Blake Walker, an old friend who is now working as an undercover cop. As Blake leaves Barone and Jackson and meets some known Triad members, Angela wonders if he is using the undercover operation as a cover for some nefarious activities of his own. “Your good friend keeps bad company,” she tells Leo, who is irritated that she doubts Blake and tells her to “let it go”. But when they talk to Blake, Angela can tell that he is keeping something from them.

Leo decides to talk to Blake himself and find out what is going on. When he arrives at the house, Leo is surprised to see Blake’s wife, Anita, rush past him in tears. Blake dismisses it as Anita “having a bad day” and invites Leo in. He explains that the long undercover job is taking its toll on his home life, but Leo wonders if there is something else troubling him.

Angela, meanwhile, has been talking to Blake’s parter, Vic Perretti, to check up on Blake’s story. He tells her that Blake is telling the truth about his undercover work, and agrees to join forces with Angela and Leo so that both the Triad gang and Jackson and Barone can be caught. Angela accepts that Blake is telling the truth about his work, but is still convinced that he is hiding something. It seems she is right when Leo later gets a call from Blake requesting to meet him so they can talk – but when Leo gets to the agreed rendezvous point, he is horrified to find Blake lying dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

At Blake’s funeral, Angela watches Anita as she interacts with Perretti and gets the feeling that something is going on between them. “You have a unique gift,” concedes Leo when she tells him, “but sometimes it borders on paranoia.” Perretti calls soon afterwards to tell them that the Triad suspects have been arrested on counterfeiting charges, but when Angela and Leo confront them about Blake’s death they deny knowing anything about it. “These aren’t the guys we want,” realises Angela, telling Leo that she senses they need to focus on the gang’s bookkeeper, Johnny – she noticed him slip up and say Blake’s real name rather than his undercover alias.

When Angela and Leo question Johnny, he reveals something about Blake that may explain why the undercover cop was shot – and causes Leo to question everything he thought he knew about his old friend.

Also this week, Angela recruits Dozer to help her track down Dylan. Why did her seemingly perfect boyfriend disappear so soon after saying “I love you” – and what will Angela do when she finds him again?