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\'Agent X\' Review: \'Long Walk Home\' Is The Best Episode Yet

‘Agent X’ drops some big reveals in its seventh episode, but it’s how they play out which prove that the show is continuing to get better – and is something worth watching.

With just four episodes left in its first season,

needed to start connecting some dots and also prove why it deserves a second season. It did both in Sunday’s “Long Walk Home,” which wound up being the show’s best episode yet by being everything that isn’t normally found in an action show.

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Having been abducted south of the border last week, John Case (Jeff Hephner) woke up in a basement face-to-face with his recurring adversary Volker – and discovering that Volker was in fact his predecessor and mentor, Raymond Marks. Marks, naturally, was now out for revenge against the entire Agent X program at any cost.

Remove the artificial suspense: Case was not going to die in that basement. Nor was he going to be trapped down there forever. If he was, we’d have a slow last three episodes.

didn’t try to fill 42 minutes with questions we already knew the answers to. Instead, it essentially created a two-part play. Case had an intellectual battle with Marks in the first half, then confronted his boss Malcolm (Gerald McRaney) in the second half with some flashbacks throughout for color. But truthfully, you didn’t need the flashbacks or even the fights. The sparring was more than enough.

proved in spades this year, action means nothing if there isn’t meaning behind it, and “Long Walk Home” put the punching on the back burner in order to let the actors shine. This was Hephner’s showcase as Case squared off with the good and evil factions in his life, and discovered that they both weren’t what he thought.

If you give a great actor material, they’ll run with it and that’s exactly what happened. This week Hephner wasn’t Agent X; he was John Case, the man behind the title. Now for the rest of the season,

can explore Case’s crisis of faith and if he’ll really remain a company man.

Meanwhile, audiences are now aware that Malcolm has a lot he needs to answer for, and let’s not forget that Natalie (Sharon Stone) doesn’t know any of this – she was almost entirely absent from this episode save a video conference. So what will happen when she discovers the truth?

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now has the opportunity to have the discussions we didn’t get to enjoy with

. When is it okay for The Powers That Be to have an operator killed? How much does that operator have a right to know? And when should they consider getting out – if they’re ever given the chance?

In a show that’s had a few skeptical moments, “Long Walk Home” was the most grounded and most appealing the series has ever been. It gave us something to think about besides whether or not the good guy was going to win, and it laid out topics it can explore not just in this season but in the next. If you somehow still had doubt that Hephner is a hero, that’s gone now. By daring to push its own boundaries,

This episode also threw Case through every single piece of furniture in the Vice President’s residence, and had a corrupt Secret Service agent shoot the President (John Shea). But honestly, that wound up being an afterthought, in a very good way.

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