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Citadel Episodes 1 & 2 Explained: Who founded Manticore & what is Citadel X-case?



Finally, the magnum opus of the Russo Brothers' spy-thriller series- Citadel was released on Amazon Prime Video on April 28, 2023, and in no time it became the talk of the town in many countries. Marked as Priyanka Chopra's digital debut, Citadel is a spy-thriller that also includes Game of Thrones fame actor Richard Madden as Mason Kane, Stanley Tucci as Bernard Orlick, Lesley Manville as Dahlia Archer, Ashleigh Cummings as Abby Conroy, and more in the lead roles.

What is Mantocore and who founded it?

Manticore is a rival spy agency of Citadel founded by eight of the wealthiest families in the world. Their mission is to manipulate world events in order to amass more wealth and power. On the other hand, Citadel's foundation was not revealed, however, it was indeed mentioned that Citadel did not work for the CIA or any other government's secret organization. It also mentioned that Citadel was created to keep the wrong things and decisions away from the world order.

What is Citadel X-case?

As mentioned in the series, Citadel X-case is secret that could hold a nation hostage and wreak havoc across the globe as well as the codes for all the nuclear weapons in the world. Notably, Dahlia says that she wants Mason alive along with the X case meaning there could be something linked between the two.

Not the greatest script/acting, nor anything original, like the SPECTRE/Hydra-lite Manticore logo to the absurdly MacGuffin-y main plotline involving a long-lost secret briefcase containing the nuclear codes, and the adversaries, a nefarious assemblage of oligarchs calling themselves "Manticore", but you'll at least get some photogenic eye candy.




No secret the aristocrats/oligarchs associate themselves with lion symbolism going back thousands of years, and they do eat their own.

However, the conspiracy ranks right up there in real world mysteries as with many similar movies/series. Aside from powerful secret societies within secret societies, the part about US nuclear codes held hostage is a real world conspiracy that some researchers say took place on 9/11.

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