The Spy season 1, episode 2 recap & explained: What’s New, Buenos Aires?

With episode one of Netflix’s intriguing espionage drama, The Spy, behind us, we move to the second part of the Sacha Baron Cohen series.

Our introduction to the second episode of The Spy, “What’s New, Buenos Aires?”, begins on June 6, 196,1 with Eli bantering with the local newspaper editor over backgammon. He leaves Club Damascus in Buenos Aires to follow a woman that resembles his wife before realizing it is another woman.

In Israel, his heavily pregnant wife meets Dan Peleg, her husband’s Mossad handler. They have small-talk, where he hides the true nature of his work with Eli. Dan steals a picture of them, then stays for dinner.

Back in Argentina, Eli writes a letter to Nadia, his wife, about missing her. Then a female agent, Julia, arrives surreptitiously to meet with him. She tells him to charm to a Syrian general cautiously at a party for recommendation letters. They enjoy a drink and he is instructed through force not to contact his partner for safety reasons: “Nadia doesn’t exist” is a mantra touted.

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At the party, Eli parlays with the Syrian attache and attempts to bolster his traveling undercover to the country. The general offers ‘women’; Eli turns down a drink and his new associate’s wife but partakes in a cigar. Although the military man is suspicious for spies in Buenos Aires, he is assured their relationship will be diligent.

Syrian security officials for the general do background checks on Eli’s alias, while he breaks into the attache’s room to take documents, though he is interrupted by an official and hides.

That same security man is informed by a subordinate that Eli’s is telling the truth about himself; whilst doubling checking a front import company himself, to be certain. Escaping from the office and slipping back into the party, the Israeli agent shows his calm stealth as The Spy by stealing a members camera to get photos of targets. Yet the Syrian bodyguard underling is suspicious as his target leaves.

Julia and our protagonist meet at a park but Eli is tailed by the bodyguard, who runs away when the pair recognize him. They chase him for a distance to a decrepit building and fight with him; Eli struggles but Julia kills the man. They flee.

Dan tells his superior that Eli is unsuitable as an agent and should be withdrawn; his request is overruled. Meanwhile in Argentina, Eli is told not to engage for a period of time, though he goes back to the embassy where the soiree was held. He is escorted by the mistrustful security official, where he tells the attache that he wants to expand the exporting to Syria, the general agrees to help whilst stating his love of loyalty.

Nadia’s goes into labor at home in Tel Aviv. Some accomplices of Eli’s inform him that he is now a father, subsequently, he wrestles with having to endure not knowing personal events when in character. He travels back to Israel to be with his baby and spouse. Having a daughter now is conflicting for Eli, who tells Dan of his intention to leave the mission; however, he is convinced to remain involved.

Finally, Dan is confronted by his partner over forcing Eli to continue and the fact that he has a photo of Nadia. Though Dan explains the picture is to remind him of value and nothing romantic. The episode ends in bed, Nadia asks Eli to stay with his family.

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