The Patriot (season 1 and 2), a spy-comedy-political- intelligence drama streaming since Feb 2017 (S1) and Nov 2018 (S2) on Amazon Prime. An English web series with 10 (S1) + 8 (S2) episodes released with an average length of 35-60 minutes each. The story is about an intelligence agent and the web series will show you a totally different picture of the agent with a comedy.
The pivotal role of an intelligence agent John Tavner / John Lakeman played by Michael Dorman, an intelligence agent who gets employed as an industrial engineer at McMillan piping firm, to deliver the bag of money in Luxembourg.
Along with him, the other lead characters are Leslie Claret (Kurtwood Smith) John’s boss at McMillan, who hates John but ultimately ends in helping him after knowing the truth. Edward Tavner (Michael Chernus), John’s brother, a Texas congressman who helps John and saves him. Alice Tavner ( Kathleen Munroe) John’s wife, helps Agathe to trap Tom and take care of Agathe’s daughter in Paris. Agathe Albans (Aliette Opheim) Luxembourg homicide detective who investigates Barros murder case. Dennis McClaren (Chris Conrad) Employee of McMillan who knows the secrets of John and helps him on various occasions. Tom Tavner (Terry O’Quinn), John and Edward’s father and a Director of Intelligence who plan to influence the election. Bernice Tavner (Debra Winger) John’s mother and the United States Secretary who helps John and Tom (S2).
Other supporting characters are
Peter Icabod (Julian Richings) sincere and serious employee of McMillan. Lawrence Lacroix (Gil Bellows) chairman of McMillan and boss of Leslie, John, and others. Stephen Tchoo (Marcus Toji) John’s competitor for the industrial engineer post and a strong candidate for McMillan. Jack Birdbath (Tony Fitzpatrick) security guard who helps John. Detective Lucie Prum-Waltzing (Sylvie Sadarnac). Ally O’Dhonaill (Charlotte Arnold). Mahtma El-Mashad (Sadieh Rifai). Numi (Hana Mae Lee) a Japanese woman, a drifter, a sex worker, and a thief who stoles a money bag from Mikham. Sophie (Zoe Schwartz) homicide detective who follows Edward and supports Agathe. Mikham Candahar (Kane Mahon) Person to whom John handovers money. Gregory Gordon (Antoine McKay) HR head at McMillan. Kkyman Candahar (Azhar Usman) Mikham’s brother who swear to revenge and get back the money. Wallace Candahar (Nikolas Kontomanolis) Mikham and Kkyman’s father and guide. Sandrine Gernsback (Sabina Zeynalova). French Detective Emile Mills (Matthew Lunt). Edgar Barros (Norm Sousa) man who stoles a money bag from the airport. Lori (Jaclyn Hennell). Rob Saperstein (Mark Boone Junior) folk singer and John’s friend and partner. Cantar Walley (Jay Abdo) Iran’s president candidate, whom the US doesn’t want to win. Detective Nan Ntep (Eye Haïdara) agent who investigates a shoot-out at the shop, gun theft and losses eyesight in an accident. Myna Albans (Jolie Olympia Choko) Agathe’s daughter who sees John at her home. Detective Sandrine Gernsback (Cindy Bossan). Efram (Ryan Shears/ Liam Mascarenhas ). Ron (Mike O’Connell) John’s assistant. Carol (Chastity Dotson) Edward’s girlfriend and veterinary doctor. Sgt. Glenn Purdue (Ed Kross). Detective Mills (Yannis Bougeard). Detective Stroughs (Samir Harrag). Sergeant Guy-Paul Poullian (Luc Schwarz) etc. Every body did good in acting.
Season 1
2012, the president of Iran dies in an accident. In the presidential election, a leader who is a strong and probable winner will make Iran nuclear power and the US is worried about it. CIA agent John Tavner will travel with the McMillan team and deliver a bag of money in Luxembourg to influence the election to make sure probable winner losses. To get a job in McMillan, John pushes clever competitor Steven Tchoo in front of a truck. After selection to pass a drug test, John takes Dennis’s urine sample.
John check in money bag in luggage instead of taking in cabin. Airport employee Edgar Barros stoles a money bag at Luxembourg airport. John stabs following and curious Dennis in the leg and goes to Barros’s home to get the bag back. One of Barros’s brother gets killed in a fight and John gets the bag back. John escapes from there and police follows him and Edward distract the police to help John.
John ends up in giving the money bag to the wrong person Mikham Candahar. Back in Milwaukee Tom informs John that he needs to return to Luxembourg to get the money bag back.
Agathe is investigating the Barros brother’s death and she thinks Dennis’s injuries are also related to the murder. John fails to attend an important meeting, so Leslie removes him from the travel team. But John shoots down a couple of ducks on behalf of division leader Lawrence La Croix during the company duck hunt. In return, John is allowed to remain on the travel team. Leslie waits for a chance to fire John.
Edward is interviewed and Agathe finds him suspicious. John captures Edgar Barros and tracks Mikham Candahar to steal back the money from him, but Mikham runs away. John steals the room safe of Mikham Candahar. Edward and Dennis open the safe and find a passport of Numi. Agathe requests an interview with John, after this John begins tailing her.
Folk singer Rob Saperstein gives his music CD to Agathe. CD is having Rob and John’s picture on the cover. John breaks into Agathe’s house to steal the CD but Myna sees him. John meets Barros’s brother using Dennis as a translator after this John leaves Edgar. John learns Numi has stolen the bag from Mikham. Meanwhile John kills Mikham and throws the body into a river. Wandering through the streets alone, John sees the bag lying on the ground, and in police custody, and police has arrested Numi for stealing a bag. Agathe calls Lawrence, Leslie, John, and Peter Icabod for interviews. As John waits to be interviewed, he sneaks through the police station to find the bag and is unable to get the bag. Leslie’s alibi puts John within the time frame of the murder. Before Agathe can interview John, he flees from the station
Steven Tchoo recovering and gaining his memory back, remembering a series of events when he had an accident and who pushed him. Agathe returning to Milwaukee, coincidently Alice books the same flight and gets a seat right next to Agathe. As their flight is forced to land early, Alice offers to give Agathe a ride to Milwaukee.
John knows Agathe is coming to interview the next day. For fake alibi, John steals a copy of a book The Structural Dynamics of Flow, wrote by Leslie from his office. Laurence appoints Leslie as the new boss at McMillan, after this Leslie tells John he will be fired after the duck hunt. John goes to an interview with Agathe and tells her he’s not an industrial engineer.
John convinces Agathe that he merely faked part of his credentials and convinces his innocence. To validate his alibi, John starts using his left hand and Edward manages to put a copy of the stolen The Structural Dynamics of Flow book into the library in time with John’s name in it. Alice grows suspicious of Agathe and investigates her room, finding John as a suspect for murder.
To finish up, John kills Steven by throwing him in front of another truck. John is told he can’t go to Luxembourg with team because of improper paperwork with, but Ron at the last moment delivers a paper. Agathe calls Leslie, who tells her John had a bag with him on the night of the murder. John goes to find Numi. John beats up Kkyman who also wants to get the bag and Barros’s brother who is stalking him. John catches up with Numi, who gives him the empty bag and tells him money is left in the police station. John sends Dennis into the police station to cause a distraction, to find that Agathe has taken the money. Edward is kidnapped by a group of men. John tracks Agathe to a train station. John lets Agathe get on the train and he gets a phone call from Tom. Tom tells John that the men who took Edward, want the money. John and Agathe stare at each other, and before John can decide what to do, the season 1 ends
Season 2 starts exactly where season 1 ends.
John lets Agathe’s train leave and picks the next train, where Myna is traveling with her aunt. John sents Birdbath to track Agathe and take the money back. John meets Alice at the airport and then kidnaps Myna and tells Alice to pretend they’re a family and travel to Paris.
In Paris, Tom tells John to kill the Iran presidential candidate and probable winner Cantar Walley and for that Tom instructs John to get a gun. Alice gets angry with Tom and leaves with Myna. She informs Agathe about Myna. Agathe tells Alice to keep Myna with her.
Leslie travels to Paris for an inquiry by Mills about John. Tom meet and tells Leslie that he and John are a CIA agent. Agathe asks Alice for help to arrest mastermind Tom by informing her about Tom’s whereabouts and for this help Agathe will leave John and all charges against him will be dropped off, but Alice refuses.
When John, Dennis, Edward, and Birdbath steals a gun from a grocer shop, Edward gets shot, and John and Dennis lose 2-2 fingers. Somehow they all escape and on a metro train, they realize John left one of his fingers in a shop. Tom tells John the mission will not finish if the missing finger is identified by police. Wallace, swears to avenge his son’s death.
Edward asks Carol to re-attach Dennis’s fingers. John and Tom steal back his finger from the shop, during this Ntep shoots John in the foot and he hit her head to rack, giving her a severe injury. When John gets the chance to shoot Cantar Walley,at same moment he sees Agathe and tries to shoot her and misses. Detective Mills recognizes John in a train, John shoots him and flees.
Bernice takes Dennis and John to the hospital. This alerts the authorities and Wallace Candahar to his location in Paris. John wakes up in the hospital next to temporarily blind Ntep. Edward and Carol plan to get married in Paris. Candahar arrives in Paris to kill John. Walley’s security identifies John as an assassin. Ron tells John that Cantar Walley is leaving at night.
Wallace reveals he hit John with a car back in Luxembourg and took him to the hospital. Alice doesn’t feel good about John killing Walley and gets angry at Tom, so she calls Agathe informing about Tom. John breaks into Walley’s office and kills Wallace there. Before he kills Walley, Tom calls John and brings him in. Alice returns Myna to her aunt.
Leslie pulls three teeth of John to avoid getting caught by facial recognition and can flee from Paris easily. At the hotel, Police come to arrest Tom and John. They escape by jumping from the balcony. Tom leaves to attend Edward’s wedding but Police caught and detain him, but Bernice with her position, alibi, and diplomatic immunity frees him. Dennis, on his way home, realizes that Carol attached John’s fingers to him. Edward and Carol get married, with Tom and Bernice the only people in attendance.
John prepares to swim through the Atlantic ocean to England where he will pick up on a boat by James. As the police follow the false lead John set up by purchasing a plane ticket, John walks into the ocean and begins to swim. He swims fourteen kilometers and almost makes it to the border, James arrives with his boat and pick him up, and they soon are in England.
Story goes parallelly with flashback revealing many events and secrets of John’s life. What happens to money? John kills Walley? How John flees from Paris? What document problem is John having? In what way Edward, Dennis and Birdbath helps John? Why Leslie helps John? etc and many more unanswered events will be answered in S1+S2 of the web series.
Both seasons of web series are a bit slow but interesting to watch. It shows a completely new picture of the agents but he looks close to common man. John and Agathe are best. Edward and Dennis gave a good touch of comedy.
If you like spy and comedy-drama, it is good and must watch series.
Chetan Nikam 