Human Target Episode 2.11 Kill Bob

A guy stuck in traffic hears his cell phone ring. It's out of reach, so he leans over to grab it - just as a black-clad motorcyclist drives by, raking his car with automatic gunfire.

The guy, Bob, goes to Chance. Thank God his wife, Angie, called when she did. Bob doesn't want her to know; she'd freak. She's just a schoolteacher. He writes communications software for weather satellites, but it isn't classified or secret. So why would someone want him dead? OK, the team will infiltrate his life and hope someone tries to kill him. Business as usual.

But as they shadow Bob and Angie, Winston spots something surprising on the closed-circuit feed: Angie swapping identical shopping bags with a bald man. She heads back to Bob - with a gun. Guerrero hustles Bob away, but Angie escapes from Chance.

At HQ, Bob can't believe his wife wants to kill him. They never even fight! Ames and Ilsa enter with suitcases, laughing. Winston growls about Ames being unavailable. Ilsa says it's her fault; they were in Vegas.

Angie has a secret past, including a different maiden name - and a murdered first husband. The bald guy's her boss, Ivan, and they converse in Russian at his office. Outside the building, Winston, Guerrero, and Ames prepare a break-in to find out more. Winston spots a wedding ring on Ames' finger. She went to Vegas to get married?! No, says Ames. Yes, says Guerrero. He told her she should've invited Winston.

Winston, hurt, scolds Ames as she and Guerrero rappel down into the building. She's only known her new husband, Alejandro, a couple of weeks! What's wrong with her? When Guerrero tries to crack an encrypted file labeled Project Graystar, Ivan and his driver get cell-phone alerts. Guerrero thinks that this is OSA, a secret Russian intelligence branch. He streams the files to Winston, and they rappel out as the returning Russians unleash a hail of bullets.

Bob and Angie are headed for a romantic weekend, and Chance goes along - as Harry, Bob's hapless co-worker, who needs a ride to meet his fiancée. Once there, he pretends he mixed up the dates. Furious, Angie stomps into the cabin. Guerrero calls Chance and says that Angie is an OSA spy, while Ivan phones Angie about the break-in. Angie looks at Chance. Hmm.

During dinner, Angie and Chance do a spy-vs.-spy dance, secretly stealing each other's gun clips and hiding knives up their sleeves. They send Bob out for firewood, and the battle is on! Plates, utensils, and fists fly. Chance grabs Bob and runs. Angie follows, blasting away, as Ivan and his driver arrive.

At HQ, info from Ivan's files unspools: blueprints, surveillance photos, transcripts . . . and a file labeled "Marshall Pucci." Dude, says Guerrero, why does the OSA have a file on Ilsa's husband? Including a photo of Marshall with a mystery woman.

When Chance spots explosives inside Bob's truck, realization dawns. She's good, he says. Angie shoots the truck. BOOOM! Bob's wife really does love him. She just wants to make it LOOK like she's trying to kill him. She rigged the truck to fake the couple's death.

Angie is really OSA assassin Natalia Petrovic. Bob didn't know, but his encryption code is actually for protecting spy satellites. Chance says Bob should try trading the new code for his life. The Russians only wanted him dead because they didn't want the old code to change, since they already hacked into it. And Natalia won't let Bob die.

Guerrero privately tells Chance about the Marshall file and photo, taken at a local hotel two days before he was killed. Chance wants to keep it from Ilsa for now, but she turns up right then. He explains he didn't want to bother her until he checked it out. She bristles, saying this woman might know about Marshall's death. Some things are better left alone, says Chance. Ilsa turns icy and snaps at him, then walks out.

Later, Ilsa enlists Ames to search for the mystery woman. But the results say "Identity Unknown."

Meanwhile, Bob meets the Russians on a country road. Angie/Natalia tearfully pulls her gun. Chance thinks she has a plan. She steps back - and shoots Bob! The Russians flee, but Chance realizes Angie purposely made a clean shot; the bullet went through Bob, a centimeter from his heart. He'll be fine.

In a deadly game of SUV chicken, Winston and the Russians roar toward each other, as Chance and Angie take aim from the passenger sides. They lock eyes. Angie takes her finger off the trigger. Chance fires, and she falls. A clean shot, just like hers. Angie's alive. Winston needs a drink.

Later, Bob reveals that he gave the Russians a virus-infected drive. Ballsy, says Guerrero. Ames apologizes to Winston. She knew he'd think the marriage was a mistake, and he was right: She's getting an annulment.

Chance says sorry he didn't show Ilsa the photo. He just didn't want her to have to endure anything else, considering what she's been through. She accepts his apology, then says she needs to be sure no one else could've played a role in Marshall's death. He understands. She thinks he doesn't. Not to sound harsh, but she doesn't think he's ever been in love. And that makes all the difference.

Chance sends off Bob and Angie, who sail away for a wonderful life together. In her office, Ilsa looks at Marshall and the mystery woman. Who is she?