SEAL Team: Does Jason regret his actions of the past?

SEAL Team Season 3’s penultimate episode was most definitely one of the most intense episodes of recent weeks. We also got a hint of regret.

Caution: The article contains major spoilers from SEAL Team Season 3, Episode 19.

SEAL Team always manages to deliver something fresh and exciting when it comes to the three-month deployment episodes. This time, we’ve had a case of Bravo Team fractured as the base at Afghanistan shuts down. However, it’s clear that not everyone in the country wants peace talks to happen, and now it looks like Jason’s actions of the past may be something he regrets.

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Throughout the episode, Bravo Team had to protect an asset to get information. We wondered whether we’d lose one of our own (Ray and Cerberus have been my main concerns, and Cerberus remains one) but in the end, the mission was able to go off without accidentally killing the asset.

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Connections to the past

It didn’t take long for Mandy (who is grieving the loss of her contact who was killed in the market square) to break the asset. He gave up the name of the head of the terrorist organization trying to derail the peace talks.

This is where Jason’s regrets come in. The ringleader is the son of a top terrorist taken out 18 or so years earlier. At the end of the episode, we see that Jason found a scared kid in a basement and handed him a glow stick. Just in front of the kid was his father, gunned down by the SEALs.

Immediately, it’s clear that this kid is now the terrorist that Bravo Team will need to take out. Jason’s actions to protect the kid and allow the kid to see his dead father gave the boy a chance to grow up to become a terrorist leader. Of course with everything that happened, there was going to be a strong chance the kid would view the SEALs and the Americans as the enemy.

Does Jason regret his actions?

There’s a moment at the very end as Jason looks at Cerberus (who I think is going to be retired after this) with a clear look of sadness. He’s torn over something, but is it regret?

We can assume that the flashback we get is something Jason is thinking of now. He’s put all the pieces of the puzzle together and knows that his actions were partially to blame for this boy growing up to become a head of a terrorist organization.

But I’m not 100% sure it would be a regret. At least, not regret of his actions. Maybe regret of the entire situation; that he didn’t do more to help the kid afterward. Maybe regret that he didn’t realize that his actions could lead to something bigger decades later.

Jason wouldn’t have been able to kill a kid. We’ve seen him put his life on the line for children in the past, and he would have done the same here. There’s no way that this was regret of not taking action but regret of what’s happened since.

We’ll get a hint next week at a special time of 10/9c.

What do you think about SEAL Team Season 3, Episode 19? Does Jason regret his actions or just hate the situation? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

SEAL Team Season 3 finale airs on May 6 at the special time of 10/9c on CBS.