Quantico (season 2)

Quantico (season 2)

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Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 22
Release
Original network ABC
Original release September 25, 2016 (2016-09-25) – May 15, 2017 (2017-05-15)
Season chronology

The second season of American drama thriller series Quantico premiered in the United States on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 25, 2016 and concluded on May 15, 2017. The season was produced by ABC Studios, with series creator Joshua Safran, Mark Gordon, Robert Sertner and Nicholas Pepper serving as executive producers.

Season two consisted of 22 episodes, the second season follows Alex Parrish, who has been working undercover for the FBI as a CIA recruit to uncover the rogue faction of the CIA called the AIC. Told through dual timelines up to the thirteenth episode, the narrative switches between the present, where Parrish had to confront a hostage crisis at the G-20 summit in New York City by a terrorist group, and the past, where she had been training at the CIA's mysterious training facility "The Farm" with other trainees, revealing links between the two incidents. The narrative switched to single timeline from the fourteenth episode.

The second season aired on Sundays in the United States at 10:00 p.m., before moving to Mondays at 10:00 p.m. after its mid-season break. The second season was well-received by critics but struggled with the ratings, averaging 4.53 million viewers. For portraying Alex Parrish, Priyanka Chopra won the 2017's People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actress.

Overview

Even after clearing her name, saving millions of lives, and discovering the mastermind behind the Grand Central bombing, Alex has been fired from the FBI, or so it appears. It is later revealed that she is working undercover for the FBI along with Ryan at "The Farm" as a CIA recruit. Their mission is to uncover the mastermind behind the rogue faction of the CIA called the AIC. In the future, the President of the United States, the First Lady of the United States, and several other world leaders are being held hostage at the G-20 summit in New York by a group of terrorists called the Citizens Liberation Front. The real aim of the group is to get to the surveillance drives that all the world leaders brought with them before the AIC does who are hiding among the hostages. Two weeks after the end of the hostage crisis, President Claire Haas and CIA director Matthew Keyes put forth a covert joint task force between the FBI and CIA. The mission of the task force is to expose a syndicate of eight Collaborators that were secretly involved in orchestrating the hostage crisis. As a result of Lydia Hall's actions during the crisis, the Collaborators have access to the sensitive intelligence that is necessary for their goal in gaining control within certain areas of government influence. Alex is hired to be a member of the task force along with Ryan Booth, Nimah Amin, Shelby Wyatt and Dayana Mampasi. The leader of the group is Clay Haas, a renowned political advisory strategist. Prior to the formation of the task-force, Alex is re-instated to work again as an FBI agent.

The team members were assigned missions to unveil the identities of the Collaborators. However, they fail to achieve their goal as the media reported on the unsanctioned activities of the task force. Following the publicized accounts of the task force in the broadcast media, The Speaker of the House, Henry Roarke took the opportunity to criticize Claire's presidency and called for her impeachment. After Claire Haas resigned from her presidency as a result of the scandal surrounding her role in forming the task force, it is revealed that Roarke succeeded in being appointed as the President of the United States. Shortly after his inauguration, he requests for a new Constitutional Convention, in order to rewrite the United States Constitution. In the days leading to the Constitutional Convention, Alex and the rest of the task force try to stop Roarke from getting the votes needed to allow the Convention to occur. Resorting to a final strategy at the convention in Philadelphia, Alex publicly broadcasts Roarke's recordings with the Federal Security Service and emails the evidence to the ACLU and other rights organizations, before having Miranda fake her death by shooting her at the event. Roarke, not willing to face the press or the police, commits suicide. Due to Alex committing treason by releasing classified U.S intelligence to the public at the Constitutional Convention, she is branded as a fugitive of the United States. Owen mentions to Alex in the car that she needs to maintain her cover so as to evade capture from domestic and international law enforcement agencies as a result of being issued an INTERPOL Red Notice for her arrest. Along with Ryan, she leaves the country on a plane to an unknown international destination.

Cast

Regular cast

Recurring cast

Crew

The second season was produced by ABC Studios and series creator Joshua Safran, Mark Gordon, Robert Sertner and Nicholas Pepper served as executive producers.

Production

Priyanka Chopra plays the series' protagonist, Alex Parrish.

In March 2016, mid-way through the first season, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) announced that Quantico had been renewed for a second season.[1] Following the season one finale, Safran talked to TV Guide revealing that storyline of the sophomore season saying that the it will focus on the contrasting working ethics of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, saying "The CIA is very much about getting information and figuring things out before they happen and before they grow into something that will be a bigger problem, whereas the FBI is very much about an immediate problem that arises that they need to fix or keep under control. They work together really well and I thought that was something I hadn't really seen before."[2] Safran also revealed that they were planning to make the successive season more mature and darker than its previous to minimize the confusion for the viewers.[3] Safran called the second season more cohesive and that the structure would mirror the first season, retaining the season one structure."[4] In another interview, Safran confirmed that the narrative would be slower than the previous season saying, "It will be a little bit of flash forward, but the majority will be, what I like to call, the present."[5] In an interview with TV Line, Safran announced that the show will be switching to a single timeline following the fourteenth episode as he always intended to switch to a single timeline after resolving all the storyline.[6]

Following the season one finale, Safran confirmed that the series regulars from the previous season would return.[7] Safran expressed his interest in bringing back Cross's character Claire Haas as he thought would be interesting to move her storyline forward.[7] In early June 2016, Russell Tovey joined the show as a series regular, playing Harry Doyle, who was described as a "mischievous gadabout".[8] The following month, Blair Underwood became the another addition to the regular cast, playing the CIA officer Owen Hall.[9] Pearl Thusi was the final regular new cast member, who was said to Dayana Mampasi, a character described as "a driven, disciplined a type-A Lawyer".[10] Aarón Díaz was announced to have joined the series in a recurring role as photojournalist León Velez.[11] Following Díaz's casting, it was reported that Tracy Ifeachor and David Lim were cast in recurring roles as Lydia Hall and Sebastian Chen, respectively.[12] In late July 2016, Henry Czerny, who played the CIA director Matthew Keyes in the season 1 finale, joined the cast in the recurring role. Safran revealed he was important for the second season storyline.[13] The casting of Hunter Parrish and Krysta Rodriguez in the recurring roles of Clay Haas and Maxine Griffin, respectively, were announced in early 2017.[14][15]

For the second season, the production moved to New York City as Safran felt that it was "much more a New York story."[16] The second season was primarily shot at the Silvercup Studios and outer scenes were filmed on location.[17] Filming started on July 13, 2016 in New York and ended in mid-March 2017.[18][19]

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
231"Kudove"Patrick NorrisJoshua Safran & Logan SlakterSeptember 25, 2016 (2016-09-25)3.64[20]
Alex is walking through New York and gets suspicious of mysterious white vans driving around. As she calls Shelby to have her run a photo of someone she believes she killed months earlier, the white vans go into formation and blow up intersections, blocking off the Financial District of Lower Manhattan and isolating those inside. With Ryan and Raina in Federal Hall National Memorial for the G20 summit, the terrorists' (calling themselves "Citizen's Liberation Front" - CLF) target, Alex infiltrates to try and find out who is behind the terror attack. After giving into the terrorists' wishes, the hostages are split up and the First Lady of the United States is beheaded. In flashbacks, Alex has now started at the CIA, but is working for the FBI in order to see if someone on the inside is really a homegrown terrorist. After she is taken into the CIA Farm training camp, she finds out that Ryan has also been recruited by the FBI and the CIA to spy on the Farm. During the first training exercise, Alex tries to be a hero, but her actions backfire in the CIA world where the mission always comes first.
242"Lipstick"Patrick NorrisCami DelavigneOctober 2, 2016 (2016-10-02)3.57[21]
In the second week at the Farm, the CIA trainees are learning how to avoid surveillance. While Ryan is secretly followed by the Farm's lead instructor, Owen, Alex, as the target, only partially completes the assignment, having failed to identify her lead surveillor. Despite this, Owen and Lydia, his subordinate, both commend Ryan and Alex for their work. In the present timeline, after noticing that CLF's personnel have been switching places with some of the hostages, Raina tries to identify one of them by injuring the masked individual's wrist while her group of hostages is being cycled out. As they cycle the hostages back in, CLF responds by giving everyone the same cut, including Raina. Meanwhile, Alex, with the help of the police officer she met earlier, manages to find an NYPD emergency bunker under Federal Hall National Memorial, right before he sacrifices himself. She successfully calls Miranda; however, the latter then texts one of CLF's personnel, revealing that Alex is inside.
253"Stescalade"Jennifer LynchBeth SchacterOctober 16, 2016 (2016-10-16)3.04[22]
After Raina's plan backfires, Ryan tries to do the same thing by creating a diversion involving his ex-classmate at the Farm, Harry Doyle, but it also fails, compromising Alex and Ryan (who is taken by the terrorists somewhere) in the process. Alex gets into a fight with another terrorist and ultimately kills her, after which the former drops the latter's dead body into the building, leaving a message for the terrorists. Meanwhile, Miranda, still in contact with the terrorists, suspects that the group investigated by Alex and Ryan at the Farm (dubbed the "AIC") may be behind the attack. In flashbacks to the Farm, the CIA trainees begin their assessment training in a forest nearby, but they fail even after they manage to make it back. Alex and Ryan cooperate with their respective handlers, Shelby and Nimah, to plant a bug in one of their classmates' rooms, but it records only interference as someone else, who might know their plan, has already planted another bug. Later, in an effort to learn more about Alex, a disguised Harry meets one of her colleagues from the FBI: Will Olsen.
264"Kubark"Steve RobinJordon NardinoOctober 23, 2016 (2016-10-23)2.79[23]
CLF offers to trade about 1,700 hostages in exchange for the hacker who was given a presidential pardon during the season premiere. Alex is able to talk to Raina and tries to get her to give a message to Miranda. Shelby tries to tell the FBI not to accept the exchange, but they go ahead with it on Miranda's orders. Raina tries to give Alex's message to Miranda and Alex tries to stop the exchange, but both are unsuccessful. Shelby finds a message from the hacker telling her that Miranda is "one of them." The hacker, unwilling to follow CLF's orders, kills himself. In flashbacks, the trainees must learn to deal with stress and keep their heart rate and stress levels down when dealing with their weaknesses. Alex and Ryan decide to clone Owen's phone, which is recording the trainees' records of stress. Alex's weakness is self doubt and the CIA thinks that Ryan's weakness is authority. Ryan tells Alex that she is his weakness, which is why he is keeping his distance. Using the data cloned from Owen's phone, Leigh was shown to have high stress levels when Ryan asked her about using a bug, suggesting that Leigh was the one who planted the bug.
275"Kmforget"Jennifer LynchCameron LitvackOctober 30, 2016 (2016-10-30)2.43[24]
Alex manages to escape from the terrorists with the help of one of them after getting cornered and later finds Lydia, who has somehow managed to escape as well. Meanwhile, Miranda, learning of the hacker's death, orders Shelby to find Will, who has a similar ability to hack computers in figuring out the terrorists' plans. Shelby, who still distrusts Miranda, warns Will about her, but he convinces Shelby of Miranda's innocence and later calls the latter to reveal his knowledge of her secrets. In flashbacks to the Farm, the trainees learn how to escape from a situation without getting caught. Alex and Ryan succeed; they choose to frame Harry, whom their handlers warn them about after they realize he used Will. However, he manages to come back, revealing that he is a spy for MI6 and that he was the one who bugged Alex's room (and also Ryan's). Meanwhile, Owen blackmails the journalist who publicly leaked his name. Shelby and another CIA trainee, León, meet each other by chance.
286"Aquiline"Hanelle CulpepperJorge ZamaconaNovember 6, 2016 (2016-11-06)2.20[25]
Lydia tells Alex that CLF is after a set of hard drives which contain valuable information, but needs a hacker to decrypt them. When Alex and Lydia find the drives, Alex thinks that they should be destroyed, but is knocked out by Lydia. She leaves Alex tied up and sets off an alarm. Meanwhile, Raina is brought back with the remaining hostages. Together, with Dayana, Leigh, Harry, Leon, and Sebastian, they try to figure out what connects them. CLF later publicly executes Leigh after finding flaws in her information during her interrogation. It is revealed that Raina is actually Nimah, who is working with CLF, and that the real Raina is tied up. In flashbacks to the Farm, the trainees must discuss whether to use a drone to kill a potential terrorist given the data they have, but they are uncertain if the data are accurate. While the rest of the group says Yes, Alex says No. However, Owen initiates the drone strike anyway, telling them that the data were accurate. Harry still wants information from Ryan about why he's here undercover. Nimah finds out that Shelby has been getting close to Leon and suggests that she go undercover.
297"Lcflutter"Steve RobinGideon YagoNovember 13, 2016 (2016-11-13)2.75[26]
Alex successfully unties herself and finds the phone number of CLF's outside contact, who, unbeknownst to her, is Miranda. She only manages to tell Shelby the first six digits of the number and is soon caught by the terrorists, who ask her about the drives. They bring in Dayana for torture; when they threaten to break Dayana's spinal cord, Alex reveals that Lydia took the drives and they leave to find Lydia. Harry, Sebastian, and León soon rescue the two. Meanwhile, Vice President Claire Haas has been sworn in as President, invoking the 25th Amendment. In flashbacks to the Farm, Owen teaches the trainees interrogation techniques by having them torture him to extract his CIA alias. While Alex and Harry feel that they are going too far, the rest of the trainees believe they are not going far enough and start waterboarding Lydia in front of Owen until he finally cracks. Alex feels cut from the FBI mission when her colleagues meet without her, given her failure to gather information. Shelby must choose between going undercover and never seeing León again. A cellphone call wakes Ryan outside the Farm, telling him he has been selected.
308"Odenvy"Reza TabriziJustin BrennemanNovember 27, 2016 (2016-11-27)2.29[27]
With her ex-classmates, Alex plans to find and disarm the biological agent that CLF has been threatening to release to the whole of New York. Meanwhile, the US Northern Command general informs Miranda and Shelby of the plan to attack 28 Liberty Street, the location of CLF and the hostages; the two oppose it. In flashbacks, the trainees are permitted to celebrate Thanksgiving outside the Farm only if they succeed in creating a cover story to protect their loved ones. Alex is officially cut from the FBI mission, prompting her to go on by herself; Harry heads back for England to inform his handler of his post-Brexit mission in the Farm; and Ryan, Dayana, and León are given specific orders by the same mysterious contact, leading to an innocent's murder; successful, the mission proves to be for leverage, with the contact's threatening of their ruin should they conduct any treason. Back in the present, Alex and Sebastian find the agent and realize that it is to be released only in the crisis zone. After the others join them, CLF captures them all. Taken separately as a gunshot is heard, Alex is then kicked out of the perimeter by Ryan, who appears to be in alliance with CLF.
319"Cleopatra"Gideon RaffMarisha MukerjeeJanuary 23, 2017 (2017-01-23)2.90[28]
Alex is taken back to FBI Headquarters, where she is questioned by Hannah Wyland (Eliza Coupe) about her involvement in the hostage crisis. She tells Hannah about her time at The Farm. Alex says that Harry, Leon, Dayana, and Sebastien are still inside the crisis zone and that anyone among them could be a terrorist. Hannah refuses to believe Alex until she tells her that Ryan is one of the terrorists. Hannah asks Shelby to go through the recording of the interrogation to find something solid to support Alex's story. Later, Shelby finds out that the terrorists are not the AIC but, in fact, the ones hunting the AIC. She also finds out that Dayana and Mike Murray (who was killed during the terrorists' interrogation of Alex) were AIC agents who killed a CIA operative in Surabaya. Hannah and Shelby leave Alex alone in the room and ask her to stay put. She is then taken at gunpoint by Miranda to a car, where Miranda reveals to Alex that she is one of the terrorists and asks her to drive.
3210"Jmpalm"David McWhirterBraden MarksJanuary 30, 2017 (2017-01-30)2.76[29]
Miranda takes Alex back into the crisis zone, where they meet up with Nimah, revealed to have been the one who saved Alex earlier. While Miranda brought Alex so they could find Lydia and the drives, Nimah and Alex agree that the hostages should be rescued. Meanwhile, President Claire Haas reveals that she inadvertently created the AIC and wants to call off the air strike on them by having Shelby claim the AIC is fake, thereby avoiding outward appearances of favoritism. Shelby refuses and convinces Claire to call off the strike anyway. In flashbacks to The Farm, Harry pits Alex and Ryan against each other, as Alex revealed to Ryan that she had her own AIC phone, and Miranda believes that Alex may be an obstacle. They try sabotaging each other on a mission before deciding to make up. Owen, after learning from Ryan about the AIC, talks to Alex and reveals that he's not the recruiter. Leon finds Nimah at Shelby's cover house and says that he knows they are FBI. He offers to work with the FBI and Nimah considers it. Later, Dayana, Leon, and Ryan meet other AIC recruits, as well as their recruiter, Lydia. When Ryan asks Lydia about Alex, she says that Alex was not selected.
3311"Zrtorch"Kenneth FinkLogan SlakterFebruary 6, 2017 (2017-02-06)2.68[30]
3412"Fallenoracle"Ralph HemeckerJordon Nardino & Justin BrennemanFebruary 13, 2017 (2017-02-13)2.43[31]
3513"Epicshelter"Constantine MakrisBeth Schacter & Marisha MukerjeeFebruary 20, 2017 (2017-02-20)2.47[32]
3614"Lnwilt"Norman BuckleyJoshua Safran & Gideon YagoMarch 20, 2017 (2017-03-20)3.31[33]
The team learns they will be led by Keyes, Owen, and Clay Haas, who dislikes Shelby due to the affair with his father. They learn that the cache of data Lydia uploaded was recently accessed to study the security and maintenance patterns of cargo planes. A plane crashed in Kentucky and the company GIP recently profited due to short-selling the plane's cargo. The team goes to a GIP party to find out who was in on the crash, only to find that GIP's goal was a Ponzi Scheme. Alex is almost caught spying, but is saved by Harry at the last minute. Harry was at GIP trying to find information like the team, but is working on his own after MI6 fired him over the Farm incident, trying to solve the case in order to get rehired. Alex, with Harry's help, learns that the company ENGIN profited from both the crash and other attacks, giving the team hope. Meanwhile, Leon meets with Alex and Dayana, convinced that someone is hunting him. However, they believe he's paranoid. As he is leaving their meeting, he is kidnapped.
3715"Mockingbird"Patrick NorrisCameron Litvack & Cami DelavigneMarch 27, 2017 (2017-03-27)3.15[34]
The cache has been accessed for information about emergency-response protocols, and is used to fake a chemical plant explosion in a city in Virginia. The team, with Harry's help, learns that a group of Internet trolls were hired to create the fake explosion by a private military company Greypool, who use it to evacuate the city to hunt a media guru. The media guru, Mallory Haynes, was hired by a US Senator to create fake news in order to help his election. However, Nimah traces the cache information to Henry Roarke, the Speaker of the House. Meanwhile, Ryan deals with a journalist, Sasha Barinov, who threatens to expose him as a government agent unless he can give her a story. At the end of the episode, Leon is shown to be killed.
3816"Mktopaz"Constantine MakrisJon Derengowski & Sara MillerApril 3, 2017 (2017-04-03)2.96[35]
The team finds one of the collaborators who accessed the cache, an NYC socialite Rebecca Sherman, and requests the team for help. However, she and another collaborator, Thomas Roth, are killed by a sniper. As Harry searches for the sniper, he finds Sebastian, who forces Harry to leave the team. Meanwhile, Clay's fiancée gets upset when she realizes their upcoming wedding is used as an excuse to get to Rebecca, and Shelby advises her to stay with him. Nimah tries to call Raina, but unbeknownst to her, Raina is kidnapped, and her house is planted with evidence to make her look like a terrorist. Nimah also confronts Ryan, as he revealed the Ponzi scheme to Sasha, who published the story.
3917"Odyoke"Steve RobinJordon NardinoApril 10, 2017 (2017-04-10)2.57[36]
A shopping mall was the target of a terror attack, and Raina was to be placed there to take the blame. However, Raina was able to escape her kidnappers, and asks Alex for help. The terror attack happens shortly before a Muslim registration bill would be passed, so the team heads to Washington, D.C. to convince the voters to vote no, but fail. The bill is passed, but President Haas vetoes it. The team realizes that the collaborators wanted Haas to veto it to help Henry Roarke become President. Meanwhile, Nimah, realizing that Raina will be arrested, switches places with her. Alex and Owen try and get information from a kidnapper that Raina identified, but the kidnapper is killed before they could get any information. Ryan, who has gotten close to Sasha, learns the FBI marked Sasha as an FSB asset.
4018"Kumonk"David McWhirterJustin BrennemanApril 17, 2017 (2017-04-17)2.76[37]
A series of riots are starting across America, one of which will help Roarke improve his reputation and destroy President Haas', so that the people will elect him as President. Clay, believing his team will lose, goes to Claire to break up the team. With Clay gone, Alex takes over as leader. The team find a trial that involves a bill Claire passed, and realize the trial may be compromised by Roarke's Collaborators. However, they are too late to stop the jury from passing a verdict, which causes a riot outside the courthouse. As Roarke prepares to make a speech to the rioters to defame Claire, he is stopped by Claire herself, who performs her own speech. As a result, Claire's reputation is improved among the people nationwide. Meanwhile, Sebastian sneaks into the team's bunker, but Owen and Ryan find and interrogate him. Sebastian reveals that he's been looking into Roarke's group, and gives them the rest of the Collaborators' names. Ryan still doesn't trust Sasha, and goes to talk to her. Sasha claims she is on his side, and says that they will talk soon. However, her car explodes as soon as she enters it.
4119"Mhorder"Jennifer LynchLogan Slakter & Gideon YagoApril 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)2.59[38]
Clay realizes that the Collaborators have been aware of the team, and have been multiple steps ahead. In order for them to win, the team decides to bring the Collaborators in one room to turn at least one of them against Roarke and the others, by sending them each a Presidential Invitation to Clay and Maxine's engagement party. While the others fail to do so, Ryan is able to get Alice Winter to confess to the murders of Leon and Sasha, and seemingly gets her to cooperate, telling him she'll bring two others. Alex is the only one who says it's a trap, but the rest decide to go with Ryan's plan. Owen suggests that in order to catch the Collaborators, she should go to their side. Ryan goes to meet Alice Winter, but instead finds a news reporter. The next day, news of the task force has gone public, threatening Claire's impeachment. Alex erases all of the team's files of the Collaborators and goes to meet with them.
4220"GlobalReach"Cherien DabisBeth SchacterMay 1, 2017 (2017-05-01)2.65[39]
Roarke uses the news to call for Claire's impeachment or resignation. Clay and the team(minus Alex and Owen) try to dig up dirt on Roarke that would prevent him from becoming President, while Raina tries to get help from Felix in finding Nimah. Clay and Shelby try to put emails in Felix's phone to make it look like Roarke is collaborating with Russia regarding Cyberterrorism, but fail. As a result, Felix quits his job and breaks ties with Clay. Meanwhile, Alex works with Alice Winter by getting Keyes to resign from the CIA. As they are talking to the FBI, Alex realizes that Alice put a water bottle in her purse, which contained a gas to poison the agents looking into President Claire, making her look guilty. Claire resigns as President, but tells Alex to keep fighting.
4321"Rainbow"Patrick NorrisCameron LitvackMay 8, 2017 (2017-05-08)2.54[40]
Roarke has signed 30 executive orders in 5 days, removes the Cache from the Internet, leading Owen to realize that the Collaborators are near their Endgame. With Clay gone, Alex gets help from Will, Miranda, and Keyes to help find what Roarke is planning. Will learns that the profit ENGIN made was from Avionics systems, which have since been added to a number of airplanes. The team finds that there is hidden code in the software that allows a plane to be remotely controlled with a smartphone if they have a popular app installed, created by a Collaborator. They realize Roarke's plan: Six flights each have one person on Roarke's Muslim Registry Act, each with the app on their phone; when their phones connect to the plane's Wi-Fi, the Collaborators will use the app to control and crash the planes. Alex goes to Alice to find the flights, while Shelby, with Raina's sacrifice, finds Clay to learn the FAA's code to request emergency landing. The team successfully save the flights. However, Roarke uses the team's win as an example: he requested them to perform an off-book operation, and uses it to request a new Constitutional Convention, to rewrite the US Constitution.
4422"Resistance"Jim McKayJoshua SafranMay 15, 2017 (2017-05-15)2.72[41]
In the days leading to the convention, the team starts vetting for Roarke's new Government Agency, while secretly trying to stop Roarke from getting the votes needed to allow the Convention. However, their plan is foiled, thanks to hidden microphhones. The team, with help from Will and Iris Chang, decide to use an indirect approach. Will and Iris pick up Peter Theo from a bar, and locate incriminating evidence of Roarke, which they give to the FSB, in exchange for them requesting Roarke to add a modification to the new Constitution. At the convention, Roarke's conversation with the FSB is recorded. Alex publicly broadcasts Roarke's recordings and emails the evidence to the ACLU and other rights organizations, before faking her death. Miranda gets arrested and Roarke, not willing to face the press or the police, commits suicide. Two months later, the rest of the team, including Maxine, Raina, and Nimah, are celebrating in the bunker, while Ryan joins Alex on a plane.

Reception

Critical reception

The second season was well-received by critics, especially the episodes following the winter finale, when the show switched its narrative to a single timeline and started focusing on character development.[42][43][44] New York Magazine noted that the show finally found its groove and wrote "for the first time since its first season, Quantico actually seems to know where it is headed. It's quite a welcome development, and the newfound confidence...makes Quantico a much more enjoyable show to watch."[44] In a full five stars review of the sixteenth episode, Kelsey McKinney of the New York Magazine noted that "the show is grappling more and more with the emotions that make us all human, not just the ones that drive the story forward."[45] The series' plotlines involving the current political scenario was also praised.[46][47]

Ratings

The season 2 premiere on September 25, 2016 had 3.64 million viewers with a 1.0 rating among adults 18-49 demographic.[48] Whereas the finale attracted 2.72 million viewers with 0.6 rating among adults 18-49.[49] After few episodes into the season, the ratings started to dip below 3 million viewers. After the mid-season finale, the show moved to Mondays at 10:00 p.m. from January 23, 2017, where it continued to air the rest of the season.[50] The second season averaged 4.53 million viewers overall with a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49.[51]

No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Kudove" September 25, 2016 1.0/3 3.64[20] 1.0 3.15 2.0 6.79[52]
2 "Lipstick" October 2, 2016 1.0/3 3.57[21] 1.0 2.87 2.0 6.44[53]
3 "Stescalade" October 16, 2016 0.8/3 3.04[22] 1.0 2.74 1.8 5.78[54]
4 "Kubark" October 23, 2016 0.7/3 2.79[23] 1.0 2.51 1.7 5.30[55]
5 "Kmforget" October 30, 2016 0.6/2 2.43[24] 0.9 2.66 1.5 5.09[56]
6 "Aquiline" November 6, 2016 0.6/2 2.20[25] 0.8 2.42 1.4 4.62[57]
7 "Lcflutter" November 13, 2016 0.7/2 2.75[26] 0.8 2.31 1.5 5.06[58]
8 "Odenvy" November 27, 2016 0.7/2 2.29[27] 0.7 2.28 1.4 4.57[59]
9 "Cleopatra" January 23, 2017 0.8/3 2.90[28] 0.9 2.21 1.7 5.13[60]
10 "Jmpalm" January 30, 2017 0.7/3 2.76[29] 0.8 1.98 1.5 4.74[61]
11 "Zrtorch" February 6, 2017 0.7/2 2.68[30] 0.7 1.88 1.4 4.49[62]
12 "Fallenoracle" February 13, 2017 0.6/2 2.43[31] TBD TBD TBD TBD
13 "Epicshelter" February 20, 2017 0.6/2 2.47[32] 0.7 1.69 1.3 4.16[63]
14 "Lnwilt" March 20, 2017 0.7/3 3.61[33] 0.7 1.74 1.4 5.35[64]
15 "Mockingbird" March 27, 2017 0.7/3 3.45[34] 0.6 N/A 1.3[65] N/A
16 "Mktopaz" April 3, 2017 0.6/2 2.96[35] 0.4 1.41 1.0 4.37[66]
17 "Odyoke" April 10, 2017 0.6/2 2.57[36] 0.5 1.61 1.1 4.18[67]
18 "Kumonk" April 17, 2017 0.5/2 2.76[37] 0.5 1.47 1.0 4.23[68]
19 "Mhorder" April 24, 2017 0.5/2 2.59[38] N/A N/A N/A N/A
20 "GlobalReach" May 1, 2017 0.6/2 2.65[39] 0.5 1.43 1.1 4.08[69]
21 "Rainbow" May 8, 2017 0.5/2 2.54[40] 0.5 1.31 1.0 3.85[70]
22 "Resistance" May 15, 2017 0.6/2 2.72[41] 0.4 N/A 1.0[71] N/A

Accolades

The second season was nominated for two People's Choice Awards at the 43rd People's Choice Awards: Favorite Network TV Drama and Favorite Dramatic TV Actress, winning the latter for Chopra.[72]

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