Queen Sono 1.06

State of Emergency

Ekaterina Gromova continues to use the Watu Wema and Shandu to accomplish her goals. They break into President Malunga's home and tie him up along with two European business men who are blackmailing the president. She burns the two business men alive, douses them in gasoline and then lights them on fire. She demands that Malunga declare a state of emergency and hire Superior Solutions to "help set things right".

Shandu is shaken by what Ekaterina did but not enough to break with her. That night he goes to see Queen at her apartment. They have sex but he is gone the next morning when she wakes up.

Queen Sono 1.05

Sugar Water

Queen assaults a man in the locker room of a country club. She is hoping to get information out him, names of men who were behind the death of Safiya Sono, her mother. She doesn't get names but she does learn that other governments were involved in the decision to eliminate her mother.

Safiya was too radical, too dangerous in the eyes of those who came to power in South Africa. Queen gets some help from Fred with researching her mother. She suspects that Dr. Isaacs had something to do with the death of her mother.

Queen Sono 1.04

Rookie

The year is 2015 and Queen is the rookie. Shandu is still working for SOG. They are lovers. She is stuck doing desk work while he works in the field. She craves to be given a more exciting assignment.

Queen finally gets her break and is assigned to a protection detail. She and Vljoen are sent as part of the protection detail. They are guarding a meeting that Deputy President Malunga is having with some European businessmen. The men are trying to buy Malunga's influence. They want to build a nuclear power plant. Malunga isn't moving as fast as they hoped he would. They've already given him 50M Rand. The meeting ends with the businessmen walking out, angry.

Queen Sono 1.03

The Devil's Toys

Shandu and some of his followers put on a show for the cameras of his new employer, Superior Solutions. They make it looks like they've been killed but it is all PR.

Queen travels to Nairobi with Miri, Dr. Isaacs, and Fred to a security conference. Ekaterina Gromova is there making a presentation. Queen, posing as a journalist asks Ekaterina some questions. Ekaterina gets suspicious and has her people look into Queen and one of her men follow her.

Queen Sono 1.02

Dying Is Sore

Queen goes to a party in Harare. She is there for business purposes. She catches the eye of Elton, a rich white man, her intended target. Things are going well but then he gets suspicious of her. She gets worried for her life and provokes a fight which turns into a gun battle. Elton is shot and killed in the midst of the battle, but not by Queen. She manages to escape.

Elton's real name is Vitaly Gromova. His father is the leader of a Russian crime family. Ekaterina, Vitaly's older sister, learns of his death just as she is having a chat with Shandu. She was trying to push him away from her brother.

Queen Sono 1.01

I Am Queen Sono

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.