angela’s eyes
open your eyes (7/13)

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, Angela races against time to stop a deadly biological attack on a pharmaceutical company; and Angela’s brother Jerry shows up with new evidence that could prove their parents’ innocence.

Angela and her team are called to the headquarters of the Lambert Corporation, a bioscience company that has received warning of an imminent terrorist attack. A vial containing a deadly virus has been stolen from the company’s labs and an anonymous phone call has threatened to release it in 12 hours, if the corporation does not pay out $40 million.

Angela and Leo meet members of the Lambert family who control the corporation: patriarch August Lambert; his offspring Chad and Brooke Lambert; and the latter’s husband, Ron Arden. The Lamberts are determined not to give in to terrorist demands, except for Chad Lambert, who is concerned about the danger to people’s lives.

Dozer soon establishes from the CCTV footage that a man dressed as a technician purloined the vial from the lab using Chad Lambert’s smart card. When questioned, Chad claims his card was stolen and resents the implication that he is involved, insisting he does not want people to be hurt. “He was telling the truth about not wanting to hurt people,” Angela tells Leo. “But he was lying about something else,” Leo surmises.

A second phone message increases the pressure on the team: “Lambert doesn’t care if innocent people get hurt in its quest for profits,” the voice says. “You will pay me or people will die in your name.” Dozer draws up a list of people with grudges against the Lambert Corporation, and discovers that 16 people recently filed a lawsuit against the corporation for allegedly damaging their health with a drilling operation. The lawsuit failed, but not before several people at the company lost their jobs.

Angela and Leo interview two of these people: one is a former contractor who lost his livelihood when Lambert bought his company; the other is a scientist fired by Lambert for speaking out against its operations. Both men say Chad Lambert was to blame for the illnesses caused by the drilling. Angela realises that Lambert senior made Chad take the blame for the lawsuit, before sidelining him in favour of his sister and brother-in-law: “You let Chad take the fall,” Angela tells August Lambert. “[Now] Chad’s taking his revenge.”

Chad has gone home claiming to feel sick, but when the agents rush to arrest him, they find him struck down by the virus. “I didn’t want anyone to know I was infected,” Chad gasps. The dying man reveals who is behind the plot: a man named Andrew Dexter, one of the 16 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, whose wife died from her illness. Chad agreed to help him extort money from Lambert in order to pay the plaintiffs, only for Dexter to double-cross him. “He told me he wouldn’t use the virus... he was lying,” Chad says. “He wanted me to get sick because he thinks I’m responsible for what happened to his wife.” Angela and Leo must now locate Andrew Dexter – but can he be stopped in time? And what is his true target?

Also this week, Angela’s brother Jerry claims to have new evidence proving that their imprisoned parents may be innocent of the spying charges against them. He introduces her to a former Russian spy named Alexi Karasyov, whom the FBI believes to be dead. “Alexi has information that’s been covered up,” Jerry says. Despite her suspicion, Angela is gradually convinced of the truth of Alexi’s story. Is it possible that Angela has been mistaken about her parents all this time?