‘Lioness’ Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: Kill for This Life

“I’m calling a family meeting.” Episode 3 of Lioness Season 3 on Paramount+ begins in the past. It’s the morning after the attack on Joe at the McNamaras’ suburban home, and her daughter Kate has a solution toward further escalation. Her mom just quits the CIA. Trades the situation room for a boardroom. It would remove any more reason for harm. A brilliant solve, were life so simple for a Mother Partner Soldier Spy. The attack brought into the open the harsh bargain Joe and her husband Neal have fought to manage since Lioness began. But that also means there is no more dancing around its realities. Gathered at their safe house kitchen island, Joe tells her daughters she can’t quit, because evil doesn’t quit. She is a soldier in a war to preserve a way of life, she has killed for it, and sh