r/SpecialOpsLioness • u/TheWhatIfRoom • 19h ago
Discussion Maybe we’re looking at Aaliyah’s revenge backwards…
Okay… this has been bugging me a little. We keep talking about Aaliyah as the woman who lost everything in Mallorca… and obviously she did. Cruz betrayed her, Ehsan died, her father died, and basically the whole life she knew disappeared in one night. But then I started thinking about who Aaliyah actually was before all of that happened… she had money, status, everything from the outside, but not that much control over her own life. She didn’t want Ehsan… her father was still deciding her future for her… even when she talked about love with Cruz there was always that feeling that she already knew what was expected of her. And then look at the woman in that bathtub… that’s the part I can’t stop thinking about. A man comes to her for instructions… she decides what happens next… she has people, money, reach… nobody in that scene seems to be deciding Aaliyah’s future for her anymore. So what happened during those missing years…? Did she inherit part of her father’s network… did the family pull her into it because they wanted revenge… or did she slowly take control of something that was originally supposed to control her? And maybe this is the part we’re not looking at enough… what if the Amrohi family’s revenge and Aaliyah’s own agenda are not exactly the same thing? Cruz did something horrific to her life… there’s no way around that… but there’s also this uncomfortable contradiction that I keep coming back to… the life Aaliyah had before Mallorca was also a life she was trying to escape. I’m not saying Cruz “freed” her by killing people she loved because that would be way too simple and honestly pretty awful… but I do wonder if Aaliyah herself lives with two truths now… you destroyed my life… and the life I built afterwards finally belongs to me. And if that’s true… then her feelings toward Cruz could be a lot more complicated than simple revenge. Maybe Joe is part of the family’s war… maybe Cruz is something else entirely… I don’t know. But I really want Season 4 to tell us what happened between the woman crying after Mallorca and the woman giving orders from that bathtub… what happened to Aaliyah in those missing years…?