Trapped and bleeding, Kontraks struggle to survive in final Tuesday episode of “Incognito”

As enemy tactics turned more ruthless by the hour, the Kontraks found themselves cornered and clinging to survival in the final Tuesday episode (July 15) of “Incognito.”

Even the most hardened among them were starting to lose hope, keeping their composure on the outside but clearly breaking inside as the enemy’s assaults kept coming one after another, leaving them no room to breathe and forcing them to confront the creeping fear that maybe this mission was far more impossible than they had prepared for. 

After Manuel (Joem Bascon)’s group used children as suicide bombers, the Kontraks scrambled to rescue as many as they could and rushed them to the safe zone before another wave of chaos hit them. Andres (Daniel Padilla), or Wolf as he’s known in the field, found himself locked in a savage hand-to-hand combat with Kenji (Lance Pimentel), which lead to the latter's death.  

But the cost of every small victory was getting higher. For every enemy they managed to take down, a barrage of bullets came back harder, louder, and faster, wearing down the Kontraks’ defense and breaking through the edges of their formation. Gab, or Sparrow (Maris Racal), wasn’t quick enough to dodge one of those bullets and was left unconscious in the middle of the war zone, exposed and unmoving while anyone who even tried to get near her became an instant target. Andres tried to inch his way toward her even as he clutched his side, already hit and bleeding as well, but the constant rain of bullets made his every step feel impossible.

At the same time, Tomas aka Monkey (Anthony Jennings) took a risk and made a run for Gab, but was hit too, before he could even reach her, and all he could do was crawl to the nearest cover, gripping his rifle and breathing through the pain as he told her to just hang on. The image of Gab slowly blinking through the dust and gunfire while completely vulnerable in the middle of the road was enough to rattle even the toughest among them. 

From there, it became a desperate attempt to recover Sparrow. Andres and Tomas were covering each other, barely keeping the enemy back as they tried to get Gab out but they were badly outnumbered, and no matter how tight their teamwork was, the bullets kept flying and the odds just kept stacking against them. 

Max (Kaila Estrada) and JB (Richard Gutierrez) found themselves cornered inside a crumbling structure, walls covered in bullet holes, floors scattered with broken tiles and blackened debris, the air thick with smoke and tension as gunfire echoed from every direction and the only light came from small windows cracked open to the chaos outside. And while the shootout raged, JB’s arm began to go numb, forcing him to pause and inject himself with what seemed like emergency meds to get his strength back just enough to move because they had no choice but to escape or be pinned down for good.  

They made a run for it through a tight corridor barely holding itself up, yet a new threat emerged from the shadows—Gaspar (Vhong Navarro) and his faction. “Akala n’yo hide and seek ’to? Sige magtago kayo, ako ang taya,” Gaspar called out in mockery before launching an explosive straight at their position, sending both Max and JB flying back, the blast knocking the wind out of them and leaving them bruised and disoriented on the scorched floor.  

In that moment of weakness, JB’s mind flashed back to his father’s death at the hands of the enemy, that helpless moment when he failed to save him. And while that image could have broken JB, it instead pushed him to rise again, only to see Max buried under part of the collapsed wall, her body crushed and bleeding from the rubble, and a thick piece of steel wedged deep into her thigh. 

JB rushed to her side and tried to stop the bleeding with his bare hands, telling her to hold on because they were getting out together no matter what. Max, trembling and barely able to move, let out a frustrated groan, her face showing pain and exhaustion and hopelessness and everything they’d been carrying since the mission began. But she still listened, and when JB told her they weren't quitting, she forced herself to sit up even with one leg crushed and her body battered, then leaned on him and stood with whatever strength she had left. 

They were stumbling into a nearby stairwell when a single gunshot rang out and hit JB straight in the leg, sending him falling backward down the steps. Max panicked and tried to reach him while her own legs were barely working. By the time she got to where he landed, both of them were on the ground again, both of them bleeding and too damaged to run, and all they could do was lean into each other, bruised and broken, but still refusing to give in. 

Hope flickered when the group’s trusted sniper, Miguel aka Jaguar (Baron Geisler), emerged from his post in the corner of a ruined structure, his eyes locked onto the target through his scope as he tracked the movement from the opposing side’s own sniper, Kwatro, played by Lou Yanong, whose position had been giving the Kontraks hell for most of the day.  

Jaguar waited for just the right moment, didn’t rush. Just one deep breath and three soft taps to steady his grip, and then one clean shot, a single bullet that flew straight and silent hit Kwatro with deadly precision, taking down the enemy’s biggest advantage in a blink. Once again, Jaguar proved why he's the Kontraks' ace. 

Through his comms, Miguel radioed to Andres and Tomas, warning them that the reason the enemy wasn’t finishing Gab off was because they wanted to use her as bait, hoping someone from their side would risk everything to come close enough for them to get an easy target. 

From her exposed position in the middle of the road, Gab weakly cried out, telling her comrades to just leave her behind. But no one flinched, no one dared walk away even if all of them were already bleeding, limping, barely standing, because surrender wasn’t an option—not for their team, not for each other. 

Will the Kontraks really make it out complete, just like Miguel promised? Catch the remaining few episodes of "Incognito: The Final Mission," until Friday, on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live (KOL,) TV5, and A2Z.