The Choices We Sow
“The time has come for you to make a decision.”
The cops surround the bar.
The jig seems up, but the owner provides them momentary refuge.
Unfortunately, the truth is barricaded in the room with them.
Cathy’s betrayal.
Average Joe Season 2 Episode 6, “Blind Spot,” uproots everything we thought we knew about the season, putting everyone in danger and making us question if anyone has any loyalty at all.
At the crux of this wreckage lies a broken relationship, placing Cathy on one side and the men on the other.
And what’s heartbreaking is Leon’s denial about the implications of what his wife has done to them.
To him.
Suddenly, every apology, every agonized declaration, every promise that she would change is scrutinized, sending Leon on an emotional spiral.
But while Joe, Leon, and Touch realize the gravity of their situation, Cathy makes her way to Sipho, offering a solution to all his prayers.
And considering the time winding down on his repayment to the Afghans, it’s an offer he may not want to refuse.
Imani.
In a desperate gamble, Cathy proposes a deal to become Sipho’s partner. This deal comes with $2 million and another body on her hands—a deal she hopes will secure financial freedom and a sense of power.
“Your father saved my mother’s life.”
Teddy’s choices and the consequences Joe inherited have colored the entire series, but in Episode 6, the other side of the coin presents itself—offering Joe a different perception of the father he thought he knew.
The father who saved people’s lives. The man whose decision to save Ahmale’s mother makes her protect Joe so fiercely in return.
But one woman’s gratitude is another man’s intuition: Teddy didn’t save Ahmale’s mother out of the kindness of his heart.
He used her to smuggle drugs out of Cape Town.
Just when you begin to feel thrown off kilter, wondering if Teddy was simply a man who accidentally fell into a corrupt life after the death of Joe’s mother, you realize his acts of kindness may be conscious decisions he made to achieve power.
“Motherf—” is right.
Where Cathy’s apology turns into an act of betrayal, Teddy’s recounted kindness does the same—but it’s a game Joe recognizes all too well.
But while her betrayal may be a desperate attempt to protect everyone, Teddy’s benevolence conceals his exploitation.
Either way, Joe is done playing.
The Consequences We Reap
Teddy’s nefarious connections in Cape Town’s drug world include people who have the means, money, and resources to get Joe back into the U.S.
But with Ahmale’s final act of repayment, Joe must truly consider the question that’s been circling his heart like a boa constrictor the entire season:
Is Teddy still alive?
The getaway car that was provided—Joe’s actual first car—compounds that question into a reality Joe doesn’t have the emotional aptitude to consider, yet another memory intertwined with the taint of Teddy’s lies.
And as Touch confesses to having a wild prom night in Joe’s car—seeking some sense of sanity to keep them all from drowning—Leon makes a confession of his own.
One that changes the course of everyone’s relationship with one another and their relationship with Cathy.
As they drive back to retrieve Imani and Phyllis, a new plan takes shape.
But Touch thinks something is up with Joe.
He had every opportunity to leave Cape Town: he doesn’t really know Imani, he seemingly hates his father, and there is no reason to be here.
Yet he never took it.
Why?
What is keeping Joe from walking away?
“You expecting someone else?”
Cathy arrives with Sipho back to the house, still under the impression that she has a “get out of jail” bargaining chip for Sipho.
However, neither Imani nor Phyllis is there.
Just Joe.
But Cathy doesn’t hesitate to make her next move.
She immediately recalculates her position and her leverage—pulling a gun on Sipho to secure her escape while offering Joe as currency.
This information knocks the wind from Sipho as Cathy threatens to shoot Joe if he doesn’t allow her passage.
A threat that sends Teddy into a fit of laughter.
A realization that renders Cathy speechless.
One that gets them both captured.
But just as the walls of escape close in around them, with Joe literally in Sipho’s home prison, a surprise cell mate brings the consequences of those decisions barreling at him at once.
Joe spent the entire season reaping what his father sowed—ignoring opportunities to escape at every turn.
Now he may finally have the opportunity to find answers within the very walls of his captor.
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Kivonshe—founder of So There’s That—is a film & TV critic who explores compelling storytelling, fandom relationships, character psychology, and the impact of entertainment media through film reviews, episodic recaps, and in-depth theme analysis.