Super secret double agent Simon Asher continued his mysterious ways this week, offering to help out the on-the-run Alex Parrish, but revealing more sinister intentions at the very end.

But wait ... FLASHBACK!

The trainees have a (literal) bonding exercise, paired up with their hands zip-tied behind their backs. They have to jump in the pool and then work together to free themselves. Alex and Shelby Drink Your Juice are the first to escape, and Simon and Ryan follow soon after.

Mean girl Nathalie escapes, but leaves poor Nimah to fend for herself. Luckily, Nimah is wearing Wonder Woman's Wonder Wet Suit, and manages to break free.

Even though Caleb and Elias did not participate, they still thankfully hit the showers at the same time as the trainees, because that's the way God wants it.

Unfortunately, Elias is the only one who does not strip down, but that doesn't stop Simon from getting the creeps, telling Ryan that Elias is acting like a stalker, "trying to poke holes in everything I tell him." Ryan teases "Are you afraid you won't hold up under scrutiny," and Simon tells him and us, for about the 48th time ...

Yeah, no one's buying your bullshit anymore.

Later, all hell breaks loose when the trainees have to write up psychological profiles of each other, and to their horror, the results are posted publicly for everyone to see, causing hurt feelings and resentment. That's part of Director Shaw's plan, as she tells the trainees they each have to make a list of three others they think should be booted from the program, and if they don't vote, she'll cut ten people herself.

That leads to bloody noses and bruised bodies during sparring class, and this tense scene between Ryan and Simon.

Alex pleads with everyone to calm the hell down, and they need to stick together through this. No one should vote to expel anyone else, and if Shaw needs to cut ten people, so be it. At least they wouldn't have betrayed each other.

Everyone agrees, except, Simon, who is the only one to give Shaw his list. Oops. Shaw reveals that the exercise was just to see if they could come together, and not betray their team. Simon failed, and will have a former reprimand on his file. If he messes up again, he's out.

Obviously, he messes up again, because when we see him in the flash forward, Alex has found her way to his fancy house, and asks for his help. Simon provides some helpful exposition.

Simon is now a bigwig at a tech startup, and Alex needs his computer help to find out who framed her and planted evidence in her apartment. She has some C-4 that she managed to grab before she made her escape, and remembers how he handled that incident at Quantico that we haven't seen yet but will probably come up next month during Sweeps.

Okay, so apparently there's something about a bomb that will shed some light on who Simon really is. In the meantime, they head to his office, and he helps her figure out that someone planted her fingerprints on the C-4. But it's an older fingerprint, from before she got to Quantico, so whoever has been framing her has planning this for a while.

Simon sets off the alarm, alerting the authorities that Alex is there, and explains that if he's going to continue to help her, they need to make it look like he was coerced. He tells her he'll help her get out of this, because "I'm good at this." Hmmm ...

So Alex kicks his ass in front of the security cameras, and escapes again. They reunite at Simon's house, and they continue searching for the truth. Wow, it looks like Simon is the one person she can trust. He gets a call from his "boss," and when he goes outside to take it, this happens.

Oh Simon.

So is he a backstabber? Is he an FBI agent? His boss calls him "agent," but maybe it's for something else?

What do you think?