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Did he or didn't he? All signs — you know, like a floor plan layout in a bunker — point to McQuaid (Nic Bishop) being the mastermind behind the Chicago facility bombing on Covert Affairs. But in the closing moments of last week's episode, he convinces Annie (Piper Perabo) that he was framed and she lets him go — after which she lies to Auggie (Christopher Gorham) about being in contact with him. Fall TV: Hot scoop on returning shows On Tuesday's midseason finale (10/9c, USA), we'll know for ...
Did he or didn't he?
All signs — you know, like a floor plan layout in a bunker — point to McQuaid (Nic Bishop) being the mastermind behind the Chicago facility bombing on Covert Affairs. But in the closing moments of last week's episode, he convinces Annie (Piper Perabo) that he was framed and she lets him go — after which she lies to Auggie (Christopher Gorham) about being in contact with him.
Fall TV: Hot scoop on returning shows
On Tuesday's midseason finale (10/9c, USA), we'll know for sure who is behind Chicago and "get a deeper understanding of the whole plot that has driven this Season 5," co-executive producer Matt Corman tells TVGuide.com.
Here are five things to expect from the finale:
1. Who's the traitor?
The bomber's identity will be revealed before the first act is over. So, is it McQuaid? He did talk Annie into listening to her gut last week, which hasn't steered her wrong... yet. "Her instinct is telling her that there's more going on and that instinct is serving her well over four and a half seasons and continues to do so," co-executive producer Chris Ord teases, adding that Annie, deep down, didn't truly believe that McQuaid was behind Chicago despite the overwhelming evidence. As such, she tries to help him clear his name on Tuesday's episode.
Perabo says that she and Bishop, who will be on the show the rest of the season, rehearsed the scene of Annie letting McQuaid go for a long time to strike the right balance of her conflicted feelings.
"She doesn't put the gun down, but she doesn't shoot and she lets him leave," Perabo told reporters on a conference call. "And it was all these tiny increments of, if you really trusted him you'd put the gun down and help him with whatever he needed ... so how do you kind of work in that gray area and how do you not cross the line with somebody so that you can never go back and they can never trust you? ... How you act in that scene and how you treat each other starts to set up their whole relationship for the last seven episodes."
Watch an exclusive sneak peek of Annie and McQuaid's covert (heh) meet-up from Tuesday's episode: