Lioness Episode 10: I Love My Country

Joe and Kaitlyn meet with senior officials and are told to identify a new **Lioness asset** for the next operation, but Joe is furious when the suggested candidates include only three options from the U.S. Navy. The mission is tied to a broader intelligence effort involving a cartel, a Chinese intelligence link, and the need to get close to the next target through a family connection.

Joe and her team travel to **Iraq** to recruit the new asset, **Captain Josephina Carrillo**, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot stationed there. The team is in convoy when they run into trouble and are attacked in the field, turning the approach into a combat situation before they ever make contact. During the chaos, Joe and the team are forced to fight their way through the encounter, and the mission immediately becomes far more dangerous than planned.

The episode then shifts into the effort to actually reach Josephina at her base. Joe pushes ahead with the recruitment plan despite her clear frustration about how the asset was chosen and the risks involved. Josephina is finally brought into the operation, and the episode ends with the Lioness team having made contact with their new target, setting up the next phase of the mission.