I.N.A.S.I.A.L.

 is the first episode of the first season of the Netflix series The Recruit.

Synopsis
Thrown into the deep end during his first week at the CIA, rookie lawyer Owen Hendricks quickly gets in over his head when he uncovers a possible threat.

Plot
On Owen Hendricks's first day of work, Violet Ebner and Lester Kitchens hand him a pile of graymail, and ask him to determine which threats are legitimate. After doing some digging, Owen discovers that one graymail from Max Meladze seems legitimate, as she has knowledge of code names that no one outside the CIA would know. When he brings this news to his boss, Walter Nyland, Walter questions why Violet and Lester did not discover this earlier when they were tasked with going through the graymail. Walter tells Owen to continue his investigation. Violet and Lester, who don't trust Owen, purposely misdirect him by implying that he should travel to Yemen to investigate the case, knowing that Owen had not yet been issued a black passport to provide him with diplomatic immunity.

While in Yemen, Owen is held hostage and interrogated. The people there initially doubt he is from the CIA, as he does not have a black passport, and pull out one of his nails. They eventually set him free.

Owen meets Max Meladze is prison. When Max notices how young and inexperienced Owen is, she loses interest and asks him to send over someone who can actually help her. However, they eventually make a deal to help out each other. Owen would help Max get out of prison, if she did not reveal the CIA secrets that she knows. Max agrees, as she is desperate to return home.

Max tells Owen that she has confidential CIA documents in a storage room. When Owen goes to the storage to retrieve the bag of documents, he is approached by two Spanish-speaking men, who point their guns at him and order him to hand over the bag. Owen makes a run for it, but the two eventually catch up to him. Upon opening the bag, acid comes out, burning the faces of the two men. Owen grabs the bag and runs. He realizes that the bag actually contains cash, not confidential documents. When speaking to Max about this, she tells him to hand over the cash to her associates.

Cast

 * Noah Centineo as Owen Hendricks
 * Laura Haddock as Max Meladze
 * Aarti Mann as Violet Ebner
 * Colton Dunn as Lester Kitchens
 * Fivel Stewart as Hannah Copeland
 * Daniel Quincy Annoh as Terence Hoffman
 * Kristian Bruun as Janus Ferber
 * Vondie Curtis-Hall as Walter Nyland