What's the ship name for your CIA ship? Also, tell me about the devastation. I have not seen CIA so go wild in explaining everything you want!
Hello and good morning, Rainbow!
I don't think they have a ship name? At least not one that I've seen. William "Bill" Randall Goodman, the fastest we ever did get a canon full name, and Colin Glass, not even 100% sure that's his real name tbh, do not lend themselves to ship names. I'm going to think about about this, because it might have to do more with job titles than legal names.
I will get back to you when I rewatch and think about it more. I'm gonna do more rewatching this weekend because I need to feel things about Colin.
The very short version, is that Colin's last partner, Toni, was killed by a terrorist bomb when they were on a mission. They were romantically involved, and being seconds away from being at that explosion - either with her, or make sure she at least didn't have to die alone - really fucked him up. So he got pulled out of the field and that deep undercover work and reassigned to the NYC field office about a year ago. (we found out 90% of these details in episode 7, this week)
That brings us to how he met Bill.
The CIA, in order to act on US soil, in cases involving US citizens, must have the FBI sign off and oversight that any other domestic federal case would have. It's implied in the pilot (and then never mentioned again) that Colin had an FBI liaison/partner named Chuck who no longer works with their team. Apparently that "poor man" would let Colin basically do whatever he wanted, which is just a silly little way to say he was a pushover and didn't actually care what the CIA was doing or what their operations entailed, is what I assume. Again, he was mentioned exactly once in ep1, and then never again.
Bill is assigned to be the FBI liaison for Colin's field office, which means they get to be field partners just to make sure nothing is too off-book, you know? He mostly just follows Colin around and scolds him for bending the rules. Very married behavior. They've now both saved each other's lives multiple times.
But the thing I'm most devastated by right now...
In episode 5, there's a scene where they are investigating a suspect of two recent bombings, and Bill is looking around the living room while Colin is looking around the kitchen, just for evidence. There are multiple other FBI agents helping them search and clearing the rest of the apartment, and all that fun stuff.
Bill goes to look at the laptop the suspects "left behind" when Colin comes back into the room to update him on all of the non-findings in the kitchen, and he tackles Bill with his entire body weight to get him away from the laptop in the seconds before it exploded with the rigged bomb.
Technically, the tackling is what set it off, because it was hooked up with a motion sensor. But that sensor still would have gone off if Bill had picked up the laptop, like he was intending to do, and Colin would have had to relive the worst moment of his life.
And watch a partner die.
While he was seconds away from making a difference about it.
Again.
these men claim they don't even like each other as friends by the way. they act like they're forced to spend any time together at all and they in no way enjoy each other's company. episode 7 ended with them in Colin's apartment while Colin told Bill about Toni and how that event still effects him and how guilty he still feels. after Bill saved Colin from being shot and killed by his and Toni's mission partner on the mission that got her killed. "he's an acquired taste" "he's growing on me" just kiss already god damn.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the most devastating part of the episode 5 scene which is Colin screaming "no, no, no, no!" right before he tackles Bill
