Hanna – Do Not Sleep

By: Kelly Kearney

Once they’re escorted back to Pioneer’s headquarters, Hanna and Marissa devise a plan to get the encryption code from Max Kaplan. In the process they overhear Stapleton’s team is outside of Vienna hunting for Abbas. It’s a race against time to save the activist and his child while simultaneously this putting an end to this rogue assassin program once and for all.

DADDY’S FAVORITE GIRL

After agreeing to join her father to save Abbas (Adam Bessa) and his daughter, Marissa (Mireille Enos) and Hannah (Esmé Creed-Miles) get shoved into Jeeps and escorted back to headquarters. Meanwhile, Sandy (Áine Rose Daly) manages to make it back to her apartment and from the looks of her she seems to be unraveling. She keeps seeing the dead pregnant Anne looking back at her in the mirror. She gets a message to call into Utrax and she heads out to a payphone, but it is her old trainee friend Jules who picks up. She didn’t follow orders and their superiors are going to find out because there’s no body. She asks Sandy for help but all she gets in return is a “don’t call me again” and a dial tone.

Back at headquarters and the team is surveying the area around the mountains in Vienna. Terri (Cherrelle Skeete) figures out how to contact the farmhouse Abbas is hiding in and tells the owner she must protect and hide them. When the two are escorted by Stapleton (Chloe Pirrie) and her heavily armed guards back into the embassy, Marissa takes a cheap shot at Stapleton by questioning her relationship with her father. She goes a far as to ask her if he “can still get hard for his favorite girl?” Brianna has made it clear she’s jealous of her power over Gordon (Ray Liotta) so when Marissa demands they show her some respect she takes the opportunity to punch Wiegler and the two wrestle a bit until the guards intervene. Considering the fact, the two women are in handcuffs and heading towards their possible execution it’s uncanny how much they seem entertained by Stapleton’s pomp and circumstance. Marissa is convinced her father won’t kill her and somewhat positive he won’t take her favorite girl from her either, or those obvious truth really get under Stapleton’s skin. Unfortunately, Marissa miscalculated because in that moment Gordon chirps execution orders in Brianna’s earpiece. She’s told to make sure his daughter witnesses it and sees Hanna’s dead body. This man’s cruelty knows no bounds. Noticing the mood change and Stapleton trying to separate them, Marissa goes into a panic. Why does Hanna have to go into the room alone? If her father is on the other side of the door then she would like to go first, but Brianna has orders, and her nervous refusal is all the proof Marissa needs. If she doesn’t do something quickly, Hanna dies. A fight breaks out with Stapleton putting Marissa in a chokehold just as Hanna takes out three guard as she gets control of a gun. She points it at Stapleton who is also holding a gun to Marissa’s head. It’s a stand-off; a life for a life, Hanna won’t let Stapleton live if she kills Marissa, so the woman yells to the guards behind the door to stand down. When she attempts to drag Marissa through, they wrestle for control until Stapleton falls into the open door and Hanna follows it up by emptying her gun into it. The guards on the other side are all down but Stapleton manages to get away.

Once the alarms ring out and it’s announced that two targets have escaped the entire building shuts down. All the exits are sealed with Stapleton confirming there’s no way out, but Gordon isn’t buying it. He’s smarter than she is and knows his daughter brought Hanna there for a reason and they have no interest in leaving until their mission is complete. He realizes they planned this whole thing because they know Max Kaplan (Gabriel Akuwudike) is alive. He orders Stapelton to kill Max immediately before the two can steal the encryption codes from his mind and ruin him.

Hanna and Marissa make their way through the building picking off guards and goons until they bust into Kaplan’s room to find his doctor arguing with nurse death and her lethal injection. Marissa and Hanna kill the nurse and guards until it’s just them, Kaplan, and his doctor. He’s surviving on a ventilator and while he is weak, he is still slightly responsive. They order him to write down the code with a reminder of how they are the only two people standing in between him and the grave. His doctor backs them up so he slowly writes down the numbers. Hanna hears the guards filling the hallway outside. Once he’s finished, they escape through the vent in the ceiling. They miss Stapleton and her team by seconds, but Max isn’t as lucky. Brianna kills him and moves on to the hunt for the code and the two who have it. From there it’s a race against the clock. They seamlessly move through the building, shooting out security cameras and killing guards until they run right into Terri, who says she knows the way out. Just as they are about to leave, they overhear the orders to search and kill Abbas and Nadiya (Léann Hamon). It sounds like they’ve found the farmhouse.

BACK TO THE WOODS

Thanks to Terri’s heads up, the owner of the farm sent Abbas and Nadiya into the woods while she waits for Pioneer’s men. They make themselves known by ransacking her farm and the minute they leave her unattended, she gets her gun and opens fire. She manages to kill two guards, but she is no match for their fire power, and she’s killed instantly. The sound of the gunfire alerts Abbas he needs to move fast Because they’re close. Luckily for him, at headquarters Hanna decided to infiltrate Stapleton’s search squad in an attempt to save him. Marissa wasn’t thrilled with the idea but with a reminder to take care of herself, Hanna kills a guard, steals her uniform, and boards Pioneer’s helicopter for rural Vienna. She easily goes undetected thanks to the uniform’s ski masks. In the meantime, Marissa steals a car and she and Terri blast their way out of the embassy with the code.

When Hanna lands at the farm, she pairs off with one of Brianna’s men, but when her cover is blown, he gets the orders to shoot her but she’s ready for him. Hanna disarms him and fires her weapon hoping they rest of the team will believe he completed the mission and Mia Wolf is dead. It isn’t long before Brianna figures out, she was tricked again and sends a small army after her.

In the woods Abbas decides he needs to find a way out, so he hides Nadiya in a cave and soon stumbles on a group of loggers chain sawing timber. The noise is loud enough to block out his attempts to steal their car, but the blasted engine won’t turn over. When he finally does get it going, he accidently sets off the car horn alerting the men and Pioneer’s soldiers. He takes off running and winds up right in the path of Brianna’s goons. It looks like his time has finally run out. Then, out of nowhere, Hanna swoops down out of the trees and kills the men with ease, saving her boyfriend and getting a well-earned embrace for her heroics. With dogs racing at them from every direction they take off running and we’re back to the opening chase sequence of the season. With nowhere to go the two young lovers slip inside a crack between two boulders and finally kiss with relief as the world falls apart around them. When one overly curious hound starts sniffing around their hide out, Hanna the dog whisper works her magic and sends the dog in another direction, effectively leading the search in the opposite direction.

SEEING THE TRUTH FOR WHAT IT IS

Also added into this deadly mix is Sandy, the cold as ice trainee who refused to help her only friend Jules (Gianna Kiehl). Well, that didn’t persuade Jules, who shows up desperate for her friend’s help. At first Sandy declines, forcefully and with her gun, but then she retreats and offers Jules a place to stay while she heads out on her next mission. We catch up with her in the woods and she’s managed to track down Nadiya in the cave and she isn’t the only one in the area. Marissa, who just handed Terri the key and sent her off to Ethan (Sam Swainsbury) followed her unsurprising maternal connection to the farmhouse in hopes of rescuing Hanna. It’s up to Terri and Ethan now to live long enough to crack that code. Millions of targeted lives are in their hands. Because Terri is the hero we never saw coming, she does survive and after a tense introduction, she shares the code with Ethan, and he gets to work.

Back the woods, Abass goes to get Nadiya, but Sandy is waiting for him and threatens to shoot the little girl if he doesn’t tell her where Hanna is. He says she has a getaway car and as she marches father and daughter through the woods, Hanna jumps out of nowhere and attacks her. The two have a knock down brutal fight and in the process the gun goes off and shoot Abbas in the leg. The sounds of gun fire ring out just as Marissa rolls up to the farmhouse consumed with the idea her father is hiding out there somewhere. She kills a solider with her bare hands and steals his coat and weapon. In another location we see Jules get dropped off by a car and make her way into the woods looking for Sandy. She found her location back at the apartment and now hopes she can convince her to leave this life and quit murdering innocent people. She knows they’re pawns being used by an evil puppet master and the line they were solid about honorable government agents was nothing more than manipulation. Now everyone is armed and ready to fight and it looks like it’s all going down on this vast piece of woodsy property. As Sandy and Hanna fight to the death, Jules shows up and pulls her gun out demanding Hanna let Sandy go. She is convinced her friend will make the right decision now that she knows this whole Utrax thing is a criminal operation. Hanna isn’t convinced and tells Jules that Sandy will kill them if they don’t finish this now. Unsure, Jules pauses giving Sandy a chance to grab her gun and attempt to shoot the only friend who believed in her! Jules friend doesn’t give her the chance. She pulls the trigger hitting Sandy in the chest and knocking her off a cliff and into a river below. Death was Sandy’s only way out; her escape from Utrax, from the lies they promised, and from the ghosts of her kills that still haunt her waking life. She was doomed from birth, they all were, but maybe Marissa can save the rest of them before they suffer a similar fate. In the distance they hear the dogs approaching and with Abbas’ injured leg they don’t have any strength to run. A team surrounds them and at the same time Marissa makes her way to her father. She takes out the heavily armed guards protecting Gordon and just as she overhears him order the death of Abbas and his cohorts, including the six-year-old child, she aims her gun into the room. Stapleton and Gordon do not see her yet giving her the opportunity to hear Stapleton break rank and question why her boss would order the death of an innocent child. He screams at her that his daughter let one child escape 20 years ago and it’s haunted him ever since, and this kid won’t be any different. She has to die. At that point, Marissa has heard enough. As Brianna reaches for the walkie talkie to confirm the target’s kill, Marissa executes her and turns the gun on her father. “Hi, dad,” she says as the kill team waits on standby for their orders. The line goes dead because Marissa opens fire shooting her father in the neck and he falls to the ground bleeding. He begs her for help but all she does is lean over him for the walkie talkie and give the team the stand down orders Carmichael shard with her. That’s when we see her slump over onto the floor. Amidst the chaos, Gordon fired off his gun too, hitting Marissa in the side of the abdomen. As her father takes his final breath, she orders the team to return to the city with everyone alive and well.

A DEATH FOR A LIFE

Hanna is shocked when she recognizes Marissa’s voice over the radio but doesn’t say anything. She makes it back to the farmhouse and finds Marissa bleeding out on the floor. They both know she’s dying so Hanna grabs hold of her hands and promises to stay with her until the end. These two are connected in a way they never wanted to be, but fate had other plans for them. Marissa talks about how she hated her for so long and she pauses from telling her she loves her, but Hanna says it for her. As Hanna strokes Marissa’s face and lips, she kisses her goodbye and whispers “Marissa, you are good.” Her death gave Hanna life and a whole new purpose, but it isn’t one she can share with Abbas and his daughter. Even though Terri, Carl, and Ethan exposed Pioneer and the government shut it down, she knows it’s not safe for her love to be near her. She needs a fresh start; Boston looks promising, and as she says goodbye to Abbas at the airport, we know she is in good hands with Terry and Carl (Justin Salinger) watching out for her. Maybe one day she’ll have escaped the horrors of her past and return to him but for now, she has an entire world out there to experience. Hanna’s life was bookended in death; her mother’s, her father’s, and the woman who gave her a future. It’s time to take the gifts Marissa gave her and do something good with them. The woods will always be there, calling her back and waiting for her triumphant return.