The Event Convolution Alert: Our Threat Level Remains Elevated

Last week, The Event held strong in its campaign to make Mondays a whole lot more disorienting. And last night's Protect Them from the Truth at least met muster. Maybe it's a Monday-night thing and I'm just too busy wiping the sleep out of my eyes to notice people palming keys to Laura Innes and Jason Ritter hacking his way into FBI facial recognition databases. Or maybe it's just really, dangerously convoluted. Click through for the threat-level analysis!

1. After an RV inexplicably and violently sandwiches the FBI car between it and a police patrol car, our Sean, being the good, guileless fellow that he is, pulls the surviving agent from the soon-to-explode vehicle, then takes her back to a motel and handcuffs her to a bed. He's all, "I just want you to help me find my girlfriend!" and she's all, "That is really not the impression I'm getting!" When her FBI cohorts show up, he stows away in the trunk so he can get access to the FBI's facial recognition database and identify the woman who kidnapped Leila. He's caught, of course, but just as a conspiracy strike team unleashes a torrent of bullets on the office, the FBI agent warms up to him. Affirmation renewed, they scamper off.

Convolution level: ELEVATED. If the RV crash was just a coincidence, then the driver's skills almost warrant taking the convolution level up to orange. If it wasn't a coincidence, then I seriously need to revise the convolution alert.

2. Zeljko Ivanek (Blake Sterling), channeling the Cigarette Smoking Man, says covering up the truth about the non-human infiltrators is protecting the people.

Convolution level: LOW. I really like Sterling, and specifically his role as this sort of misguided, ethically challenged protector -- it smacks of The X-Files myth-arc, if you'll pardon the plug.

3. Sterling, Martinez and Co. need information about these non-humans, and pronto. A detainee agrees to reveal everything he knows, in exchange for (among a few other, less interesting things that don't parallel Jason Ritter's story) his girlfriend, Maya. Unfortunately, the alien infiltrators get to her and somehow compel her to kill him. Very sad.

Convolution level: SEVERE. In order for this all to happen, Simon the infiltrator needs to conference with Sophia -- in her jail cell. Shouldn't she be watched at all times? Why the unfettered access? And who told Maya to kill the informant? I mean, I don't have to know everything, but...

Final convolution level: ELEVATED. The majority of the episode dictates we proceed with caution, though the simultaneous reanimation of all those plane crash victims does serve to cleanse the palate a bit. What did you think?