Living Rent-Free: ABC’s 'Quantico' Slings Mud at Palin and Bush

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By Erik Soderstrom | April 11, 2016 | 2:17 AM EDT

In an episode about America’s porous borders in which 18 FBI recruits successfully slip across the border undetected without any proper planning, Quantico’s writers made sure to slip in a few digs at President George W. Bush and former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

In the episode “Care’s” flashbacks, the FBI recruits are told they’re being taken to the Canadian border to meet with TSA and Border Patrol agents to learn about U.S. border security and human trafficking. Once they arrive in Canada, however, the agents are told to surrender their passports and try to make it home without them. The first pair of recruits to make it home will get their choice of plum field office positions, and any trainee who succeeds in crossing will get preferential treatment when the FBI assigns the new agents to field offices.

During the exercise, Caleb Haas (Graham Rogers) reveals to Shelby Wyatt (Johanna Braddy) that he has secretly made plans for Shelby’s parents to meet them at a hotel in Canada. Shelby’s parents had faked their own deaths following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and in this episode, are outed as war criminals who—unintentionally, they say—sold military technology to the Taliban. When Shelby frets that the time they spend at the meeting could cause them to fail the exercise, Caleb consoler her, saying that if they’re condemned to “busting Palins in Anchorage, it’ll be worth it” for Shelby to have finally gotten answers about her family.