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The third episode ended on a disastrous note with Drew getting shot by Mikhail. Does he survive the gunshot injury?

Let’s find out.

Countdown Episode 4 Recap

Meachum accompanies Damon Drew in the ambulance, and the latter immediately undergoes surgery upon reaching the hospital.

However, doctors soon inform Blythe that Drew died during surgery. He conveys the same to the rest of the team, leading to a wave of sorrow.

The intro montage plays out.

Blythe and Shepherd visit Drew’s house and inform his wife, Cora, about his martyrdom. She is shattered and cries her heart out as she hugs Blythe.

Back at the office, Nathan Blythe delivers a motivating speech to lift the spirits of the special agents. He pays tribute to Drew and says they must keep going.

Later, Blythe asks Meachum if he saw anything of importance in the basement room of the Dance Hall.

The special agent tries to remember and is able to retrieve a piece of information, which was a name written boldly on the side wall.

The name was “Gallagher.” Blythe orders a reverse search on that name to see if there are any connections between Novikov and Volchek.

In the very next moment, Nathan’s secretary informs him that LAPD is looking to reassign their detectives to in-house special units.

Mikhail meets Volchok in Downtown LA and tries to strongarm him into postponing the mission he is on. Further, he blames him for burning his dance hall.

Volchok slaps him hard and scolds him before grabbing his neck, directing him to fall in line if he wants his family to stay alive.

Meachum, in a conversation with Oliveras, blames himself for the death of Drew. He feels it was his recklessness that cost Drew his life.

Oliveras shares an incident from her past when her training agent was shot and killed during a raid.

She concludes by saying they must look ahead and accept the consequences as part of the job, rather than blaming themselves.

Shepherd retrieves Mikhail’s residential address in Studio City, and Blythe sends the special agents to investigate it.

The team of four finds Mikhail’s wife trying to escape the place and brings her in for questioning.

Meanwhile, Blythe pays a visit to Valwell in his office. They have an argument where Valwell does most of the talking, badmouthing the special agents and blaming Blythe’s leadership for Drew’s death.

Before leaving, Blythe warns him to back off the transfers or he will see a side of him he won’t like.

Meachum and Oliveras interrogate Mikhail’s wife, who tries to deceive them. They catch her bluff before Blythe asks the duo to break her.

A few minutes of grinding, and she tells them how to contact Mikhail. With the help of Shepherd’s expertise, a chat communication is created.

When Mikhail is satisfied that he is actually talking to his wife, he invites her to meet him at Central Plaza Chinatown.

The fielding is set with the Special Agents spread around the place. Though late, Mikhail arrives, but he gathers from his wife’s facial expressions that something is wrong.

He cautiously scans around and spots Meachum before running for his life. A few minutes of chase, and they nab him.

Back at the office, before Mikhail’s interrogation, Blythe asks Bell about his father’s experience while working with Valwell.

In response, Bell has only positive things to say about the District Attorney, highlighted by a story about Valwell putting his entire career on the line because he believed in his dad’s work.

Shepherd gets emotional seeing Drew’s desk being cleared out. His son’s basketball cap falls as people move his stuff.

She picks it up and puts the cap on her desk as a memory and a mark of respect for Drew.

During the interrogation, Mikhail says he doesn’t know anything about a terrorist plot, and it was Novikov who killed their team member.

Furthermore, he requests his lawyer. Meachum tries to force an appropriate answer out of him but fails to do so.

He tells Blythe and the rest of the team that Mikhail won’t break. Bell suggests they need leverage.

This is when Meachum remembers that Novikov had a cousin who had picked them up from near the restaurant earlier.

Shepherd brings up Mikhail’s family tree, but he is not in there. Meachum shares that he dropped them off in a 2020 Prius.

Bell quickly fires up traffic cam footage from near Mikhail’s dance hall, and they find out the car. Shepherd says that the vehicle W-2s are registered to a factory named Callahan’s Textiles.

Meachum and Oliveras visit the factory and spot the cousin (named Dmitry), who starts running immediately.

On being caught, the agents scan him, and Oliveras pulls out a drug packet from his pocket. Dmitry denies ownership.

Meachum suspiciously looks at his partner and connects the dots to understand that she is the one who put drugs inside his pocket.

The cocaine is probably from the 1 kilo of heroin Oliveras took in episode 2.

Still, Meachum plays along, and they together blackmail Dmitry into revealing Mikhail’s plan if he wants to avoid a 20-year jail term for possession.

However, Dmitry insists that he knows nothing about a terror plot. The agents push him further, and eventually, he mentions Dmitry’s daughter from a mistress.

She is now an 18-year-old student at a university. Dmitry gives them a picture of Mikhail’s daughter.

On their way to the office, Meachum asks Oliveras about the cocaine, and she responds, saying she flushed most of it.

Later, they inform Blythe about Mikhail’s daughter, whose tuition is linked to a dummy account set up by his LLC.

Shepherd joins them in Blythe’s cabin and requests that she be allowed to conduct Mikhail’s interview.

Not because she is better than Meachum and Oliveras, but because she looks strikingly similar to Mikhail’s daughter.

Blythe allows it and joins her to interrogate Mikhail—this time with his daughter as leverage.

Together, they lay bare each and everything that society will shove at her if the world knew that she is Mikhail’s daughter.

Eventually, he gives in and provides them with information in exchange for a promise to keep his daughter, Anya, out of it.

What Mikhail Told the Task Force?

A few months ago, Volchek contacted him through an encrypted server. He needed a base to operate from since he was planning something patriotic as a proud Belarusian. Hence, Mikhail gave him a room in the basement of his Dance Hall.

He further shares that their mode of contact was through a system under which he would put a green cross mark at a specific location.

It would indicate to Volchek that he has information and needs to meet him at Van Nuys Airport at 8 PM.

A plan is put in place, and Mikhail does exactly as described. They set up a trap for Volchek at the airport with Mikhail standing alone, waiting for him to arrive.

However, Volchek sends in someone else with a similar physique to the location. So, they get the wrong guy, leading to a failed micro mission to nab Volchek.

The entire place turns into a circus, with cops from other departments stepping in to assess what’s happening.

Volchek, on the other hand, buys a ticket for a film and enjoys it inside a theater.

But how did Volchek know that Mikhail’s cross sign was a trap?

When Mikhail drew the cross, Volchek was stationed in a nearby restaurant. From there, he spotted the special agents, and hence, he knew it was a trap.

After the failed outing, the special agents return to the office, where Blythe gives them a motivational boost.

He also shares that Cora, Drew’s wife, wants to say something to them.

Cora takes center stage and, in an emotional delivery, she says that they shouldn’t blame themselves for Drew’s departure.

Their main goal is to keep the country safe. They shouldn’t let anything get in the way of that.

At the end of the fourth episode, Blythe honors Drew’s martyrdom by hanging an honorary plate in his name inside the office.