The following contains major spoilers from Lioness Season 2, Episode 5, "Shatter the Moon," now streaming on Paramount+.

Lioness Season 2, Episode 5, "Shatter the Moon," belongs entirely to a character from Season 1. The return of Laysla de Oliveira as Cruz Manuelos continues to pay dividends for the Paramount+ show, as Cruz's presence overshadows almost everything else in the episode. And with just a few more left to, the series is finally getting to the mission that it talked about in the first place -- but is it coming too late?

"Shatter the Moon" is primarily about the characters reacting to the child trafficking that they saw at the end of Season 2, Episode 4, "Five Hundred Children." But a part of the episode is devoted to Captain Josie Carrillo making contact with her family and starting the operation she was hired for. It;s Cruz's presence as a foil to both Josie and Joe that makes Episode 5 work,...