Countdown: Eric Dane Weighs In on Team's First Big Loss — and Who Is Most Affected by It

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The following contains spoilers from the July 2 episode of Prime Video's .
Task Force Hurricane weathered a big loss this Wednesday.
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Yes, Prime Video's Countdown last week opened with — and was set in motion by — the murder of a DHS agent, played by guest star Milo Ventimiglia.
But in Episode 4, the task force assembled by Special Agent in Charge Nathan Blythe (Euphoria's Eric Dane) — comprised of LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Supernatural's Jensen Ackles), DEA undercover vet Amber Oliveras (All Rise's Jessica Camacho), LAPD gangs unit officer Lucas Finau (Young Rock's Uli Latukefu), and FBI agents Evan Shepherd (The Flash's Violett Beane) and Keyonte Bell (The Boys' Elliot Knight) — sustained a personal loss when DHS intelligence offer Damon Drew (The Chosen's Jonathan Togo) died from the gunshot he sustained outside the dance hall where Meachum had unknowingly come face to face with prime target Volchek.
'Officer Drew… Damon… died in surgery,' Blythe shared with the team in the cold open, after getting the bad news from the doctors. 'They said he lost too much blood. They did everything they could, but….'
Afterwards, Blythe brought Shepherd with him as he delivered the death notification to Drew's wife Cora (Dexter: Original Sin's Amanda Brooks). Later, back at HQ, he reminded the team of who Drew was, and how now was not the time to fall off Volchek's scent.
'Damon Drew was a man who loved his family, his job, his country…,' Blythe noted. 'He knew the pressures and the dangers, and the relentlessness of chasing down threats who wished to do harm to the United States… and he did so with grace and determination.' Blythe suggested that the task force had already disrupted Volchek's plans, and as such, 'Now is not the time to retreat.' Rather, 'I'd like us to focus and be the elite task force I know we can be. Can we do that?'
The team implicitly nodded en masse, but how will Blythe himself hold up? After all, the little we'd gotten to know about Mason was via glimpses of him coaching his late son's Little League team, or through brief heart-to-hearts with longtime friend Blythe.
Speaking with TVLine, Eric Dane affirmed that his team leader 'absolutely' will be the one most impacted by Mason's death. Speaking in character, he reminded, 'I had worked with Drew for a while, I knew his family, I knew his child, I knew his history….'
As asked by their boss, Meachum, Oliveras et al indeed kept their nose to the grindstone and — with a clever assist from Shepherd, who realized she favored POI Mihail's co-ed daughter — leveraged the man who shot Mason into setting up a meeting with Volchek.
Alas, the team staking out the tarmac that night was duped by a stand-in for the elusive terrorist. Ugh.
In the wake of that setback, Blythe told the team, 'Every investigation I've been a part of has had its peaks and valleys. This is a valley, for sure, but we're going to find this guy, and we're going to stop him.' He then invited Cora, who was on hand for the installation of a plaque in Agent Mason's memory, to inspire the team further.
'I wanted look you in the eye and tell you that what Drew would want, what I want, is for you to finish what he started,' she said.
What did you think of Episode 4, the aftermath of Mason's death, and the airport fake-out?
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