SEAL Team Recap: Will the truth (and a blast from the past) set Jason free?

This week on Paramount+’s SEAL Team, Jason finally learns the harsh truth about a past mission. How did he react at first and what path did he follow in his search for greater peace?

Picking up about 16 days from where last week left off, times are still tense in Bravo’s makeshift base – and they’re about to get worse as Jason questions Clay and Ray about the planned tracking schedule. to always have one of them watching over. Your shoulder. Disappointed to see Ray succumb to Clay’s theory, Jason suggests that this is still about abandoning the mine exploration ship he almost left behind in North Korea. But Ray and Clay told him the harsh truth about Mali, and it was Jason’s forgetfulness, not an enemy RPG, that collapsed a building and sent all of Bravo to the hospital. . Jay dismisses this statement as “bulls-t”, considers his two brothers a disgrace to Trident, and then leaves.
Ray and Clay then find Jason sitting on the edge of the rooftop – with a gun. They also saw he had accepted the truth, and were therefore disappointed that his 20-year career would end “in the worst possible way” with the loss of his bird. That he should have led his brothers, not almost killed them. That he could finally be as broken as Swanny.

Clay points out that brotherhood is about knowing when to stand up and help each other, that science is advancing rapidly in treating TBI. However, Jason refuses to be a lab rat, and is instead determined to “go out with my shield, on my terms.” The next morning, Ray reached out to Jay again and offered to take them out for breakfast burritos; Jason agrees, as long as Ray doesn’t say a word to him. After eating, they end up at a small, secluded house, where Ray introduces Jason to Marc Lee (hey, that’s Animal Kingdom’s Shawn Hatosy!), a former Army Ranger dealing with TBI and PTS yourself with the help of psychoactive plants like haumuchu cactus aka “San Pedro” (real!). Jason was skeptical, but when he heard Marc talk about achieving “enlightenment” by “dissolving the ego” with psychedelic drugs, Jason said to hit him.

As the cactus juice takes effect, Jason is stunned to see a plant in Marc’s house… then teleports himself to Bulkhead, where he reunites with Curtis “Cujo” Johnson, Jorge and Full Metal – aka the The first death he felt responsible for, the first member of the group to die under his watch was Bravo 1 and the last. Jason regretted each man’s death, but each made it clear that they did not regret dying as they did and wanted to be remembered for how they lived and fought. Additionally, they note that none of them is the one that weighs most heavily on Jason. And when Jason follows a hooded figure through a lighted doorway and into his old apartment, we see that it is… his late wife Alana.