Will Travers is an intelligence analyst and researcher. He's pretty good at his job and a bit of a loner, attributed mostly to the fact that he lost his wife and daughter in the 9/11 attacks. One day, notices a pattern in crossword puzzles. He reports it to his boss, David Hadas, who brushes him off and says his imagination is working overtime but knows more than he is letting. When Hadas is killed that night in a commuter train crash, Will is offered his position but a series of events leads him to conclude that his death wasn't an accident. Meanwhile, wealthy ...
On his first day as team leader, Will Travers follows up on identifying the men sitting with Yuri Popovic and is under pressure to show he can do the job. He's still looking into the common thread he found in the crossword puzzles. He calls on David Hadas' old friend who tells him that the crossword puzzle code was something he had devised and tested many years before at David's request. Will is under observation. Meanwhile, Tom Rhumor's widow, Katherine, is a bit surprised to learn that he changed his will two days before he died. She visits the townhouse he left her...
Katherine and Wheeler share their grief and confusion over Tom's suicide and find themselves closer than expected. Maggie's ex-husband returns asking forgiveness. David's son visits Will, leaving him with yet another clue to David's death.
Truxton invites Will on a business trip to DC, leaving the team to make a very important governmental decision on their own. Katherine's attempt to move on is derailed when she finds a suspicious voicemail on Tom's cell phone from the day before he died.