And here we are. SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 9 is the penultimate hour, setting up everything for the series’s swan song. Did it do the work?
I think so.
It’s not easy to say goodbye to a team as close as Bravo. Looking back at the series as a whole, the Bravo team has been and remains the main attraction. They feel like family.
But this family is coming to an end, at least in its current incarnation. What comes next will exclude us, so everything is riding on the SEAL Team finale.
Please note that I have seen the finale, so this review will be a little different. I’m not going to speculate, as I don’t want to give anything away. That’s the last thing I would want for those of us who have spent so much time with Bravo.
SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 9 began as we’d expect, with everyone wondering what in the hell Ross Curtis was doing right in the middle of an Op.
He wasn’t on any sanctioned business, and that struck the team hard.
Curtis and Nazario go back years, it seems. No wonder he’s such a miserable POS. How can you work with the enemy after spending a lifetime defending your country from them?
Sonny said it best. “Never trust a ginger.” That’s something I can say as I was ginger for many of my years! 🤣As you’d expect, this hit Jason particularly hard. This guy, who they had trusted, turned on the fentanyl faucet. Timing is everything, and Jason’s reaction made it clear that the time was up for this particular bunch of drug traders.
As we discussed during SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 8, they let this guy get into their heads, especially Jason. He saw Curtis as a role model, someone who had been through the same shit as he had. If he couldn’t get out, why could Jason?
And finally, like in the old days, Ray recognized there was more to Jason’s story and wondered if it was Curtis who was redecorating the inside of his head. That pushed Jason to tell Ray about the burn box and his first kill.
Jason needs to do what he envies Ray for doing — clean his kills and settle his debts so he can walk away healthy. With one episode remaining on on his way to kill a fellow frogman, it’s hard to imagine how he can accomplish that.
One of the most important aspects of the upcoming finale is concluding Jason’s story. Talking about dying on the battlefield suggests that it could go either way.
One of the most important aspects of the upcoming finale is concluding Jason’s story. Talking about dying on the battlefield suggests that it could go either way.
Still, he laid it on a little thick with Lisa about his trident. On the one hand, he says he’d take a bullet for her, but on the other, he reminds her that the only thing he’s clinging to is holding on to his trident.
Did he not recognize how antsy she was during the whole op? Her future is just as important to her as his is to him. And when you look at it from the male-female perspective, what she’s achieved trumps his Navy career.
These two are going to keep us guessing to the bitter end.
Of course, Sonny wasn’t the only one feeling pain on SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 9.
Jason’s soon-to-be son-in-law tore his meniscus during training, which was just one more thing for Jason to worry about.
Being a family man so far from home is never easy, but as you get older and realize time isn’t neverending, it gets even harder.
It’s taken a whole season to get here, but SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 9 carried on the tradition of action we craved, even if it did almost get them “blasted off their asses.”