: The episode opens with a high-tension mission in the field that goes "awry" for Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program. After a compromised operative is identified by a tattoo, Joe is forced to make a devastating call to neutralize the site with a drone strike to protect the program's secrecy.
Critics within the defense community argued that using female operators in direct-action roles violates certain cultural norms and could provoke retaliation against local women. Proponents counter that asymmetrical warfare demands asymmetrical solutions—and that the Lioness model has since been adopted by at least three NATO special operations units. Operativo- Lioness 1x1