SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4, titled “Heroes and Criminals.” is out, bringing more action for the Bravo Team but still keeping their mission on the down low and away from gunfights.
After their first assignment in getting intel from the Sai Lou syndicate in Bangkok, Thailand, team morale is high for the Bravo Team. They were successful in keeping their presence in the city a secret, and Command is happy with them so far.
In SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4, Bravo is back on the field for their second mission. This time, they do the opposite — they have to make their presence known in a big way by blowing up the factory housing fentanyl precursor.
However, with Jason Hayes making sure that the team comes out alive from their mission, they have to act as both heroes and criminals to ensure their operation is successful. They are also slowly getting through Drew’s defenses one mission at a time.
Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for SEAL Team Season 7. Reader discretion is advised.
Why did the Bravo Team rob the payroll truck in SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4?
In SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 3, the Bravo Team put trackers to the vessel and barrels transporting fentanyl precursors undetected.
While it looked like they would be caught, Drew, aka Bravo 6, saved them with his quick-thinking and brass. However, Drew is still very much opposed to being in a team and prefers working alone despite the rest of the team, especially Sonny, trying to ease him up to the brotherhood.
In the latest episode, Bravo is ready for their next mission, and with the success of their previous operation, their confidence is only increasing. While they kept it quiet in the previous op, what Command and the DEA need from them to do this time is to make a massive blow to the Sai Lou syndicate operating in Bangkok, literally.
The gist is that they have to blow up the Sai Lou fentanyl precursor factory, but while some of the team is excited that they are back in real action, there’s a caveat.
They have to be long gone from the premises before bombing the building, which will supposedly deter the syndicate’s operation for good. Now, they have to sequence an operation how they want to do it in a way such that there’s less risk to their lives.
Bravo, though, came to an impasse after Master Chief Jason Hayes scrapped their first op, saying that there were a lot of eyes that could put their mission and their lives in danger.
However, like their first mission, Drew saved the day with the intel about the payroll truck coming to the compound. His intel inspired Hayes and their next op — rob the payroll truck before it reaches the compound.
As the SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4’s title, “Heroes and Criminals,” implies, Bravo has to be both the hero and the criminal for this mission. Hero because they are blowing up the drug factory but also the criminal because they are robbing the payroll truck.
Their reasoning for this op is that the workers would vacate the factory if they were not paid for the day. So, if the payroll truck doesn’t arrive on time, the team would be free to blow up the building without casualties.
So they go on a mission to blow up the truck, but it was unsuccessful on the first try after another vehicle ran over and damaged the explosive.
Now, they have to find another way to keep the payroll truck from reaching its destination. As they were chasing the truck, someone from inside fired at them. But in a heroic attempt, Drew sticks the explosive, blowing up the truck and allowing them to rob the money.
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What did the Bravo Team do with the money they robbed?
Without the payment for the factory workers, the Bravo Team’s prediction was right — the workers left. And so, they were free to enter the factory and plant the explosives. In the middle of the operation, though, the factory workers come back into the building, as they are being held at gunpoint by some security men.
With people in the vicinity, Bravo risks being found out. Hayes, who was among the team planting the explosives, told the second team:
“You got to buy us some time.”
Omar, who was on the lookout team, has an ironic way to buy the team time to finish planting the explosives and retrieve more intel along the way.
Taking the bags of money they robbed from the payroll truck, they throw the bills toward the factory workers. While the workers try to catch the money raining, Hayes and the others can finish what they have to do. With the explosives ready, they exit the factory, blowing the building up as they go.
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Did the Bravo Team find a better dynamic with Drew in SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4?
Throughout the first episodes of SEAL Team Season 7, new team dynamics is one of the key subjects in the series as Drew becomes the new Bravo 6. While he likes to keep to himself, Sonny and Omar, along with the rest of the SEAL Bravo Team, are keen on getting through his defenses.
At the end of SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 3, Sonny and Omar made a bet on who can make Drew spill something about himself. Their quest to make Drew open up continues in Episode 4 as the three of them team up to do surveillance on the chemical factory.
Omar, Drew, and Sonny in SEAL Team Season 3 Episode 4 (Image via Paramount+)
As the annoyed Drew sits between Sonny and Omar, the latter two are ribbing and trying to bait him to open up, but Drew isn’t easy to crack.
He tells both his teammates that he will answer one question about his life if they will stop talking. Desperate to get Drew engaged, Sonny decides to ask him if his father is “Senator Franklin of West Virginia.”
Drew corrects him, saying, “No, you mean from Delaware,” to which Sonny quickly agrees, thinking he won. But Drew answers no and when Sonny becomes dumbfounded, he laughs. Sonny quickly realizes that Drew got one over on him.
While Drew continues to resist the team’s efforts to engage him, their interactions are longer and more positive. At one point in SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4, he gives a toast to Sonny, telling him that the blow-out kit he designed to save warfighters is “noble.”
Stay tuned to find out what’s next in SEAL Team Season 7 and other favorite TV shows as 2024 progresses.
