‘Lioness’ Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: Joe’s in Different Area Codes

We have no idea if “signing out” a dancer from a strip club is actually a thing. But that’s how far Taylor Sheridan’s writing goes for Episode 5 of Lioness Season 3 on Paramount+, as the team’s undercover work to expose and flip Russian assets in America continues. Two Cups, in his guise as a married defense contractor, ends up spending the night with Shila (Madison King) at her place, and in the morning we see it’s wired for surveillance. Downstairs, he meets the men who will blackmail him into becoming a patsy for Russians, because he just got honeypotted. But Two Cups isn’t worried. The front door explodes and backup bursts in, followed by Kaitlyn Meade. The CIA official’s suit is in powerful tones of cream and pink. “I have rights!” Shila, the Russian asset honeypotter, shouts as every