Queen Sono, a field operative for the Special Operations Group. She returns to Johannesburg from a mission in Zanzibar on the 25th anniversary of her mother's death. She was a child when her mother was assassinated. She was there. Her mother was a freedom fighter. Queen does her best to ignore the commemorations that are held.
Queen turns to William, a friend, for some help getting out of a psychiatric evaluation that her boss wants her do go for. She surprises William later in the episode when she shows up at the restaurant where he is having dinner with Nova, his girlfriend.
Shandu, a leader of the Watu Wema, leads a group of men that attack a mine in the Congo. They kill the guards and free the men who were forced to work there. This is the only sequence in the episode that does not involve Queen.
Queen goes to her mother's grave with her paternal grandmother. Her father is still alive but she hasn't seen him in quite some time.
Queen has never gone to see the man who was convicted of killing her mother. She finally does when she learns that he is about to be released from prison. She dresses up as a guard and enters the prison. She gets into see him. She forces him to tell her about it, about how he killed her mother. His story is off. He didn't do it. He must be covering for someone but whom?
Thoughts
This is the first Netflix original series from Africa. The show is primarily in English but there are a number of other languages that are spoken here and there. All of the non-English dialogue is subtitled. I missed a few names the first time through and had to turn to Wikipedia for some help there.
On the whole I liked it. I liked it enough to want to see more but I don't love it based on this one episode. The show has some very stylish touches. I'm tempted to compare it to Alias but that is only because the lead is a woman who is a field operative for an espionage agency. There really isn't much else that the two shows have in common, as far as I can tell at this point.
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