[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Spoiler for this episode:

Interesting... Marina actually survived her first real assassination attempt this episode. And as expected these days, the Assasin was not the usual variety. It was a female servant.

Generally with covert operations, you use operatives with the least suspicion. The assassin obviously wasn't trying to kill Marina because of Marina's gender, but because of genuine political differences. Obviously this wouldn't be the last time someone would want to put a bullet in her head.

Sometimes I wish religious extremists would at least be sexist in a more uniform manner. I still remember the first time I heard about the first female Muslim suicide bomber, and thought why they had to make such jobs equal-opportunity employment.