When Does the Brave Air Again

"The defense of the United States and its citizens relies increasingly on two groups. The intelligence analysts in Washington, who uncover and interpret threats. And the Special Forces operators tasked with eliminating them."

— Opening introduction to the episode "Pilot".

The Brave is a NBC drama show that aired its outset episode on September 25, 2017. It stars Anne Heche, Mike Vogel, Demetrius Grosse, Natacha Karam, Noah Mills, Hadi Tabbal, Sofia Pernas and Tate Ellington. In May 2018, NBC announced that the show would non be scheduled to air another season.

The show centers on missions conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency, an external intelligence agency that'southward in charge of providing defense and military intelligence to the American government. At habitation, daily operations are overseen by Deputy Manager Patricia Campbell, who recently lost her son in the War on Terror. Out in the field, Captain Adam Dalton commands a DIA SOG squad that is tasked by Campbell to conduct blackness operations all over the world.

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This show provides examples of:

• All There in the Manual: The NBC website and commercials give more info on the SOG.
• Artillery Dealer: Ranier Boothe, the target of episode iii "The Greater Good."
• Badass Bookworm: Any DIA annotator who has a background of serving in the military or in some other intelligence agency like the CIA.
• Batman Gambit: Dalton and Patricia come up with a programme to rescue Jaz from Iranian custody past leaking to the Iranians confirmation that she's an American agent. Because the Iranians have the confirmation and have no demand to interrogate her to get information technology, Dalton knows the Iranians will move her from the Qods Force black site where the squad can't get at her to a prison where she'll exist publicly executed every bit an American spy. This allows them to snatch her back while in transit.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted with Jaz in "Desperate Measures" when she is tortured and beaten pretty badly by Iranian forces. Played straight in "Close to Habitation, Role two" when Hoffman's telephone bomb blows up Campbell and Preach jumps in front of her to shield her. Both of them look remarkably great in the hospital for having survived a point-blank explosion: even Preach, who took the brunt of the blast and is in a coma, but has a few small bandages on his head.
• Cliffhanger Copout: The first episode ends with the DIA team seemingly defenseless in the blast of a vehicle-borne IED on a Turkish beach. The next episode begins with a scene in Ukraine setting up the plot, then we cut back to the Incirlik base in Turkey where the protagonists are perfectly fine. The truck bomb from the last episode gets maybe ane minute'south worth of discussion where they mention about 20 civilians and 4 servicemen died in the nail and they'll probably never know who did it. In the end of episode 8, the DIA finds out through the listening issues on Ranier Boothe that information technology was orchestrated by Iranian IRGC commander Fahim Jarif.
• Couch Gag: The map in the background of the title menu changes to reverberate where the SOG team will exist operating each episode.
• Defector from Decadence: Hossein, the team's local contact in Iran, is a former member of the IRGC who has grown disgusted with how his country'southward authorities operates.
• Downer Ending: Especially since the bear witness was cancelled and not renewed for a second flavour. Verina is rescued, the USS Wyoming is saved from Chinese capture, and Dalton murders Hoffman, but Campbell's career may well exist over and Preach is in a coma.
• Framing the Guilty Party: When an arms dealer becomes Properly Paranoid about a mole in his organization, the team protects their asset past making it look similar the guy'due south new business partner is the one who was spying on him and stole his money. The business partner is a vicious Mexican gangster who previously ordered an American agent to be brutally murdered so no one in the DIA has any issues setting the guy up.
• Greater-Scope Villain: In the series finale, it turns out that Alex Hoffman and his mercenaries are working for Red China, and their mission is to use Verina Curtis's hacking skills to divert a U.S. nuclear submarine toward one of the artificial islands the Chinese have synthetic in the South China Sea so that the People's Liberation Regular army Navy tin can capture the sub and contrary-engineer its classified technology.
• Guile Hero: Dalton's SOG squad rarely ever resort to using straight attacks to reach their objectives, preferring to use intimidation, manipulation, and the occasional targeted hit to vanquish their opponents.
• Heroic Cede: "Desperate Measures" has 2: their Iranian contact starts a gun battle with Iranian troops so the team can become over the border into Turkey, and Patricia breaks federal law and potentially ending her career by leaking to the Iranians confirmation that Jaz is a covert American amanuensis so they will motion her for execution, giving Dalton and the squad the chance to mount a rescue.
  • Zigzagged in "Close to Dwelling, Part 2." The captain of the USS Wyoming is prepared to scuttle his boat along with the whole coiffure to prevent being captured past the Chinese navy, but the good guys manage to right his course at the terminal second. Meanwhile, back in Turkey, Preach shields Campbell from Hoffman's phone bomb, only while he survives, he is in a blackout at the cease.
• Hollywood Healing: Studiously averted. Injuries carry over from episode to episode and characters sport casts and bandages even as they continue going out into the field.
• Inside Job: The SOG team realizes that the prison break in "Break Out" couldn't have been done with within help from sympathizers in the ranks of the Afghan National Police force, which is a Truth in Television issue afterwards the Taliban were ousted from ability until recently.
• Institutional Fidelity Concealment: The squad operates under plainclothes while heading under sensitive ops. Although in other instances, they wear camos that are hands commons with other militaries similar Multicam.
• Lethal Chef: Amir complains that his teammates are lousy cooks who serve barely edible food, strange smoothies, or power bars because they tin can't be bothered to go through the endeavor of preparing a meal.
• MacGuffin Girl: Cassie Archer, the subject area of episode ii "Moscow Rules." She is so important that 1 of the Kremlin'southward top spyhunters from Moscow is dispatched to Ukraine to rail her down as the DIA team attempts to get her out of the land. She was beingness groomed by America's height spy in Russia to exist his successor and thus knows most everything there is to know virtually Russia's highest officials.
  • Again with the subject area of the two-part series finale, Verina Curtis. She is a sixteen twelvemonth old Hackette who can knock U.S. Navy submarines offline with powerful estimator viruses and is being pursued past an unknown party.
• Heart Eastern Terrorists:
  • The pilot episode deals with the DIA taking out a commander of the al-Nusra Front after they staged a kidnapping of an American working with Doctors Without Borders near Damascus.
  • "It's All Personal" has Amir reactivate his old cover identity to infiltrate an ISIS cell in Paris that is planning a suicide bombing.
  • The two-function episode "Desperate Times" / "Desperate Measures" deals with assassinating a Qods Force commander who orchestrated a truck bombing in Turkey.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Burhan Baghdadi in the first episode is clearly meant to be modeled off of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. He'due south even reported to be killed by an American airstrike, merely to turn out to be live; the real-life Baghdadi had been reported killed by airstrikes over one-half a dozen times and kept turning up live afterwards. In the prove, though, he's the leader of al-Nusra Front (another extremely dangerous terrorist army operating in Syria at the fourth dimension, being al-Qaida'south official Syrian co-operative) instead of ISIS.
  • The American defector to the Taliban in "Break Out" is modeled after John Walker Lindh, the real-life American Taliban defector who was captured in 2002.
  • Iranian Revolutionary Baby-sit Corps commander Fahim Jarif in "Drastic Times" is a younger version of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who in existent life was a senior official with the IRGC and the most famous public confront of the organization.
• Poor Communication Kills: In "Moscow Rules" the team is sent in when a CIA outpost in rebel-controlled Ukraine goes silent. The CIA fails to warn them that one of the agents working at the outpost knows ultra secret information that the Russians would practice annihilation to obtain. The DIA thus underestimates the strength of the opposition the team would face. During extraction, a DIA helicopter is shot down and the team is forced to play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Russian trained spy hunters.
• Pretty Little Headshots: Jaz takes out Taliban escapees in "Break Out" with her suppressed SR-25.
• The Remnant: The villains of episode 11, "Grounded," are fabricated upwards of a cell of hardline FARC terrorists. FARC signed a peace treaty with the Colombian authorities in late 2016 and agreed to disband, leaving said terrorists as some of the few remaining true believers in the cause.
• Riding into the Sunset: Dalton's team does this at the end of "Stealth", their boonie hats making decent substitutes for ten-gallon hats, and lampshade the moment past discussing their favorite western movies.
• Ripped from the Headlines: A lot of the episodes' plotlines are inspired by actual current events at the time of airing.
• Rogue Amanuensis: Alex Hoffman from the two-parter "Close to Home," an American agent who supposedly died 9 years ago and has turned up again working every bit a mercenary.
• Sadistic Choice: The team is subjected to this due to the nature of their work.
  • The DIA is tasked with the choice of going subsequently Burhan Baghdadi so that ANF can be bedridden badly and chance getting Dr. Wells killed or rescue Dr. Wells and chance Baghdadi escaping in "Airplane pilot". Dalton goes to save Wells, but leaves some Semtex in an empty burglarize magazine in Amara Baghdadi's vest to have a makeshift explosive and destroy the van they were using to escape after she was knocked out cold with a distraction.
  • In episode 3, "The Greater Good," the squad has to decide whether to pull Sofia out of Boothe's clutches immediately, which will lead to mission failure as information technology volition tip him off about the issues they've planted on him, or leave her to die at his hands. They opt to frame Martin Urzua, a local crime boss and Boothe'southward Mexican business concern partner, as the homo who'due south been betraying Boothe.
  • In "The Seville Connection", Dalton is forced to abandoned an SVR defector, which wouldn't make him happy or bring him back to America, which the Russians will know that one of their agents defected. The SOG arranges for his assassination in public so that the SVR won't go later on him, giving the defector some breathing space to go to America.
• The Mole: The rogue FARC fighters had some help in repelling an attempted raid from a sympathizer in the Colombian National Police force in "Grounded".
• Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: Dalton'due south SOG team was briefly forced to navigate through an anti-Ukrainian insubordinate-controlled city later 1 of its choppers got shot down in "Moscow Rules" before they began to hide from building to building. Information technology didn't help that pro-Russian fighters trained by GRU agents were hounding them constantly. This pisses off Jaz since it brings the hazard of getting the CIA agent killed.
• Warfare Regression: In episode 8 "Stealth," information technology turns out the Russian stealth drone actually crashed within People's republic of china's borders, non Mongolia as the DIA originally estimated. This makes the mission to recover its engineering science much more complicated as the Chinese military is one of the world's most sophisticated war machine when it comes to electronic warfare. The SOG squad has to completely strip themselves of any communications devices and cut themselves off from Washington, or, as Campbell puts it, "go old school."
• Wham Line:
  • For "Pilot"

  Patricia: They [The al-Nusra Front end] didn't kidnap Kimberly Wells to get revenge. They kidnapped her because she's a surgeon.

  • For "Suspension Out"

  Rioting prisoners on the inside would have no admission to a control room on the outside. Unless information technology was orchestrated.

• Wham Episode:
  • "Pilot" ends when Dalton and Preach encounter a pickup truck charging straight for them and the Turkish children in a embankment.
  • The terminate of "Desparate Times" has Jaz captured while in a black op in downtown Tehran.
• White Void Room: Qods Force in Islamic republic of iran uses one of these every bit an interrogation chamber. All personnel in these rooms wear all white wear to farther add together to the event.
• Would Injure a Child: ANF takes out a DWB commuter'south child after the kidnapping in "Pilot" to avoid leads back to them.
  • Would Hit a Girl: They also take out the driver's wife.
• Would Not Shoot a Adept Guy: Subverted in episode 4, "Interruption Out." At first information technology sure looks similar Preach did gun down a friendly Afghan baby-sit when clearing the prison house's control room of terrorists, and Amir calls him out on it. Simply Preach points out the guy couldn't take been a friendly since why else would the terrorists let him alive and stand in the center of the room. Also Played With in the same episode, Jaz saves another Afghan guard from beheading, but so opens fire on him too... except she isn't trying to kill him, but is shooting the basis around him to scare him into running into the nearest building so that Dalton can meet up with him.

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