Quantico: Why would Alex plead guilty?

Now that everyone (probably) has watched the latest episode of the rising TV show, Quantico, let's reflect on it. While certainly entertaining, it is packed with weak immature dialog and lazy writing.

With that out of the way, lets elaborate :)

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Quantico's take on the FBI training surely reminds you of your time at high school. The characters display an absurdly "teenish" behavior, at the same time as each of them carries a supposedly very intense backstory that you would think would have helped them mature... But no, that is not the case, they all just fall madly in love with each other on first sight, and unprofessionally base their decisions on their relationship status (one would think hope the FBI recruits better candidates to be their agents). [...]

Sadly, the seasoned agents are just as poorly written as the trainees, with extremely artificial and rehearsed speeches. Nearly every time there is a lecture for the NATs, there are two agents who will speak in cliches and perform a routine of short sentences spoken by each intermittently.

Now on the matter of recent events on the show: Alex is finally able to convince the FBI that she is innocent, but then O'Connor suggests that the real terrorist is expecting her to be caught and thus she should be arrested to avoid any suspicion from the bomber's part. While the logic behind that is already questionable, it is made even worse when Alex pleads guilty!

How would the bomber not be suspicious with her pleading guilty? Where I come from, framing someone is about convincing everyone else that person is guilty, but not about making the framed person believe they are guilty (unless there is some serious brainwashing involved). So even if the FBI actually thought she was guilty, there are at least two people who know the truth, Alex and the terrorist. She could be arrested without raising suspicion, but she could never admit something the bomber knows she didn't do.

So unless it is supposed inadvertently raise the terrorist's suspicion (making the FBI seem absolutely incompetent), it is just really bad thinking by the creators.

To top all the nonsense off, there is a random scene of O'Connor announcing to the FBI: "Surprise! everything that pointed to Alex being framed is fake and she is actually guilty, but please don't ask how we got to that conclusion!". He provides absolutely no evidence or line of thought as to how they determined that she planted all the evidence that made her look like she was framed.

Now, after all that I will say: Yes the show is entertaining and the concept is good, I just wish they put a little more thought into the writing. There is no need to have unrealistically immature characters (given the context), nor to have those word by word rehearsed lectures, and please put some thought into the characters' actions!

Bottom line: make it real, make it believable.

So I will keep watching, and of course I want to know "who did it". I just hope the writing improves (some of the acting could do with some work too, but that is another story)

What did you think of this latest episode? What do you think of Quantico in general? Share your thoughts in the comments bellow!