- During a raid against Red Flag an unknown Alpha is discovered. Gary bonds heavily with her while the rest of the team tries to define the extent of their enemies reach.
- We open with Gary's mother getting him his nightly glass of water. It needs to be a very specific temperature. He has her get him another. During this time, he seems to find something.
We cut to two men having breakfast in a house very early in the morning. One plugs in a tablet. The other makes him some eggs. The camera pans to their yard and the street and we see the Alphas and a SWAT unit are poised to raid the home. One of the men inside is Milos Kosar, who leads Red Flag's most aggressive cell and was the one who sent the ghost after Dr. Rosen (David Strathairn) and the rest of the gang in the pilot episode. Rachel (Azita Ghanizada) says she hears three heartbeats inside the house. Eventually Rosen gives the go-ahead for them to take the house. Immediately Hicks fires a shot that takes out one of the back door's pins, allowing easier access. Kosar's buddy senses they are under attack and grabs Kosar, preventing him from going back for the tablet. As they leave the room, we see Kosar's hand go up. Everything goes black.
When the lights come back on, Kosar and the other man are gone. Rachel hears just one heart beat. They break down a back door and find a young woman sitting in a rocking chair, staring ahead as if in a daze.
The young woman's name is Anna. Rosen says she is most likely a low functioning autistic. Nina (Laura Mennell) says she has no record of family.
Bill (Malik Yoba) starts grabbing evidence. Rosen takes the tablet, which Rachel says is encrypted. Rachel says the blackout was anything from normal. Rosen says he wants Nina to stay at the home and supervise Gary (Ryan Cartwright) and Anna.
Gary watches Anna closely. He seems fascinated as she passes her fingers over the closet door and items on the door.
A powerpoint presentation is found in the home. Hicks (Warren Christie) thinks the message of empowerment for Alphas seems useful, while Rosen wants to blow right past it. Rosen perks up when Bill shows him paperwork related to an oil company.
With use of a cell phone, Gary figures out how to read what Anna is saying. Her first message is "I can help you find them."
The rest of the team returns to the home. Gary explains what he's done with Anna's "language." He tells Rosen she knows every language on the planet.
An awed Rosen calls Anna a "virtual Rosetta Stone." He thinks she has severe issues with speech and motor skills but her language and pattern recognition is highly developed. She is an Alpha though. Sullivan (Valerie Cruz) points out Red Flag may have noticed this as well. Rosen thinks they can have her decode the emails on the tablet and lead them to Kosar.
Rosen brings Gary home after his usual bedtime. His mother is furious. She seems delighted, however, when Rosen mentions his interest in Anna.
Gary sees the tablet has audio software that connects her finger movements on a brush. This also means she is able to "talk" to Gary though a voice on the computer. Anna asks Gary about his Alpha ability. She is very impressed. They start working on the emails.
The emails get sent to Bill. Rachel shows Rosen a piece of carpet singeing that indicates static electric interference. This is Kosar's skill. Bill brings over one of the emails to Rosen. It has the routing number for a fuel truck he thinks Kosar wants to blow up.
We see Kosar and his friend at a rest stop. They get into a fuel truck loaded with explosives and head onto the road.
Bill and a small team corner the truck from Gary's email. It turns out to just be a random driver with no explosives. We see the number from this truck is one off from the truck Kosar is now driving onto the New Jersey turnpike.
Rosen grills Bill on how this mistake could have happened. Rosen calls Nina and says he wants Gary in the office.
Cut to Anna talking to Gary about how he doesn't "need" Rosen. He can do things for himself. Gary notices a number is off from what Anna told him in another email. He asks her to count to ten and she ignores him. Nina comes in to bring Gary to the office. He flatly refuses.
Hicks talks to Rosen about not taking Kosar too personally as that could make him prone to mistakes.
After Nina leaves, Gary asks Anna why she lied to him. He's gone back and figures out she intentionally gave him the wrong number for the truck. Anna is still working for Red Flag, he says. "No," she says. "They work for me."
Bill and Hicks decide to look at all the trucks with fuel still on the road. There are too many to track, however.
Anna tells Gary sometimes there is no choice. People have to get hurt. There is a drug called Renestrin, she tells him, designed to eliminate birth defects. It also means it will prevent Alphas from being born. Red Flag wants to stop this. Anna says they are sending a message. People like them aren't a problem to be fixed.
We see the truck heading through the Holland Tunnel.
Gary tells Anna he's tricked her. He doesn't think she'll like it.
Rachel gets a message from Gary. The team knows Kosar is headed to a pharmaceutical plant. Rosen is told Anna is Red Flag. He and Nina go to get Gary. The rest of the team heads to the plant.
Gary suggests Rosen can help Anna. She says she doesn't need anyone's help and does something to cause discomforting interference in Gary's head. He grabs his ears and drops to the ground.
Bill and Hicks get to the plant just as Kosar does. They prevent his buddy from detonating the explosives remotely. Kosar gets underneath the truck and uses his power to set it off with his hands.
Rosen and Rachel find Gary is okay. Anna has disappeared.
Rosen brings Gary home. He says Rosen "is not one of us." Gary says he sent Rosen an email he should read. Inside, Gary tells his mother he can get his water himself. He can take care of himself, he says. Gary gets a message from Anna apologizing and making sure they are still friends.
Rosen and his team look at a message found over an open frequency sent by Anna. Red Flag was sending a message to drug companies. Rosen admits he underestimated the strength of Red Flag's message. He next tells Sullivan he and Wilson thought Red Flag was a "loose affiliate" of 50 to 100 cells. Gary has learned there are literally thousands of Red Flag cells across the country.
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