- The biological threat intensifies. The CDC rushes to identify the contagion and treat the infected people, while the White House and Director of National Intelligence face a difficult dilemma in their negotiation with Thomas. Meanwhile, Simon appeals to Sophia to turn on Thomas. Elsewhere, FBI Agent Collier closes in on Vicky and Carter, but appearances are not always what they seem.—NBC Publicity
- "The Event" - "Casualties of War" - Oct.18, 2010
Thomas is on the phone with the Prez and we get a replay of last week's demand to release Sophia and the other detainees and the threat of people dying.
We cut to the writhing, bleeding Avias 514 flight passengers in the quarantine facility. One woman goes loco and pulls out her IV and tries to run. She's apprehended by the HazMat gang, then other people, including the air marshal and Michael Buchanan get nutty. They want to know what is happening to them.
The quarantine doctor reports the changes to the Prez, Blake, Simon and others in a situation room. She thinks they're looking at an extra-terrestrial organism. Blake wonders how the aliens are doing it. The doctor says they can't treat what they don't understand and she thinks they will die by morning. Thomas calls in again. He says he has an antidote that can save the passengers only if he meets his demands. The Prez says Thomas knows he can't do it and calls him a son of a bitch. Thomas gives him two hours to release his people from Inostranka and hangs up.
We flashback to the crash site in 1944. We get a replay of the groups splitting up and Thomas and Sophia saying goodbye and her saying they'd be together soon. She promised. We now see Simon helping Thomas round up the able-bodied to run. They walk off into the snowy dark. They find some kind of settlement in the Alaskan wilderness. It's empty but has electricity and food and communication devices. They think about figuring out another way home. They look at a vacuum tube radio and realize that the humans have nowhere near the technology to get them where they need to go. Simon says they can do it and that Sophia put him in charge for a reason. Thomas says it will take years.
In the present Blake reminds him that the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists and will be seen as a weakness if they take the antidote for the release. He calls the passengers "casualties of war."
Simon calls Thomas and begs him to hand over the antidote and repair the damage that's been done. Thomas says the president will cave. Simon says they can't turn them into murderers. Thomas says too bad now he's going to do things his way and by tomorrow their people will be free.
Meanwhile we cut to Leila trying to reach Sean yet again. No luck of course. Her parents also aren't picking up. The evil cop comes over to chat with her. She notices his family pictures on the desk. He says they'll be celebrating 15 years come January. He goes back to Carter and Vicky who reassures him that Sean will call. Carter says she better be right for both their sakes.
We cut to Del Mar, CA 5 years earlier and Vicky on some kind of black op where she and a partner were ordered to kill everyone in a house. They do but her partner is also killed. She hears a crying baby and goes to the crib. We don't see whether she does kill it because we cut back to the present.
Sean calls an old computer hacker turned legit friend named Rick and asks for his help to find Leila. Rick wonders what Sean has gotten himself into. He says it's better if he doesn't know. Rick runs the number. Sean and Collier are in a convenience store. His friend couldn't get a hit. He buys a phone charger. In the car he gets Leila's message.
At the police station in Snyder the phone rings and it's Sean. He says he's about an hour away. She explains what happened and about her dad. He says he knows. The call starts breaking up and they have to go. When she hangs up she accidentally hits the computer screen of the evil cop and realizes the pictures on his desk are of another family, not his. She notices a blood drop on the floor. She asks to go to the bathroom. She does and spies a window. She breaks it open and is about to climb through when the evil cops come and grab her. They drag her into a room and shut and lock the door.
At the quarantine facility the patients are still dying and freaking. The big deal doctor who advises the president arrives and tries to help. They have to shock Michael Buchanan back to life. The air marshal begs for help.
The Prez ruminates. Christina comes in in her bathrobe to ask what's up. He tells her. She says he can't let them die and besides he was minutes away from releasing them anyway. But that was before he realized Sophia was lying to them about who and what her people were. She says he sounds like Blake. He says it has nothing to do with Blake and it's not as simple as she thinks it is.
He heads back to the situation room, Thomas calls in, and he tells him to go take a flying leap. Thomas says then the passengers will die and he can do this to entire cities. The Prez gets tough and says Thomas is going to give him the antidote or he will execute Sophia and all of the other detainees. Thomas says he wouldn't. The Prez says he's wrong and hangs up on him. The assembled, Blake, the doctor, others are somewhere between horrified and impressed.
We flash back to New Mexico, 1945. Thomas enters a house and is met by Simon who wonders how long he's been living there. Thomas says 6 months. Simon wonders how he could leave everyone behind with no clue. Thomas says he knew Simon could handle the group and he's been working on helping the Americans boost their technological know-how so he can advance towards getting them home. He shows him that he's working at a lab to help with the Manhattan Project. Simon says they're going to use it for war. Thomas doesn't care, what they're going to use it for is what matters he says.
In the present he's freaking out a little.
Blake brings the Prez some interesting news, a "termination protocol" built into Inostranka. Basically they would gas them in their living quarters. The Prez calls it barbaric. Maybe but Blake calls it their strongest option and it can be back online in under two hours. He worries the president is having second thoughts, since reneging on his threat would be the worst of all possible scenarios. He says he knows it isn't easy but if it makes any difference Blake thinks he's doing the right thing. The Prez says to get the protocol back online and he looks at the blueprints.
Simon brings this news to Sophia who doesn't believe the Prez would murder people in cold blood since he's a good man, Simon said so. Simon says things have changed and that Thomas will let the passengers die, his pride is blinding him. Sophia says he's gone too far and isn't the same man she put in charge back in '44. Simon said he wouldn't listen to him. Sophia says he will listen to her and to tell him to release the antidote and make sure he understands it's an order.
Simon takes a ride and meets Thomas at a park and gives him Sophia's order. He says he's done taking orders from Sophia, and she's weak like the president. He say it's like Simon said way back when, Sophia put him in charge for a reason. Simon tells him to give him the antidote. Thomas says over his dead body. Simon slugs him and says the Prez won't back down. Thomas says he won't either. Simon says then Thomas is sentencing his own people to death.
At the police station Vicky and Carter confront Leila. They're mad that she doesn't act surprised. She tells them to go to hell. Carter goes to ambush Sean and Vicky stays with Leila and cocks her gun. Leila begs again and Vicky says she has orders. Leila says even if it means killing innocent people? She wonders if it's that simple for Vicky.
We flash back to Vicky 5 years earlier on a park bench. She is saying to an older man "no one told me there'd be a baby." The man says there was no need, she had her orders, take out the family, burn down the house and that's what she did right? He says if he had any doubt that she was unable to fulfill the contract then they would have to "deal with that." She says it's done. We cut to her entering a house where her mother is... and the baby. Obviously the little boy we met last episode.
Back at the police station she shuts the door on Leila.
Sean and Collier drive on through the night.
Vicky's phone rings and Carter, on the roof, tells her that Walker is arriving. Just as Sean's about to get out of the car, his friend Rick calls and tells him Vicky's in Snyder and they realize she's inside and that it's a trap. Collier wants to bolt saying it's a suicide. Sean begs saying they have to get her out. Collier says they have no move. He says maybe they do. He sends Vicky a text message: a picture of her son. He then calls her and says she went to a lot of trouble to hide him and it was for a reason. He says he's walking in and out with Leila or her son's picture and address go viral. She says there are other people in here and he doesn't know what he's doing. He says she does and she didn't give him much of a choice but he's giving her one and she better help him. Collier gives him a gun.
He approaches the police station, gun behind his back. Vicky has hers trained on him as he enters. She starts shooting everybody else in the place. She tells him Leila's in the back. Collier shoots Carter and he falls off the roof. Vicky shoots some more fake evil cops as Sean searches. He gets to Leila, they kiss. They start making their way out and Vicky shoots another guy out of their way and tells them to go. They bolt out and Collier pulls up and they drive off.
Vicky calls someone and says Walker came in with FBI agents and that someone must have talked and that they got Carter too. Except when she walks out, his body is not where it fell. Sean and Leila make out in the backseat while Collier drives.
The bigwigs wait in the situation room. It's three minutes past the deadline and Blake says the termination protocol is ready. Thomas calls and says he still wants his demands met. The Prez says the deaths of Sophia and the detainees will be on Thomas's hands. The Prez goes to hang up and Thomas stops him. He says to give him just one detainee in exchange for the antidote: Sophia. The Prez agrees but says if the antidote doesn't work he'll do the termination protocol. Thomas tells him to put Sophia on a specific train. They hang up. The Prez says to put a hard to ditch tracer on Sophia. They put something in her food and water that will linger, hoping Sophia will lead them to Thomas. As they go to drop her off the Prez calls and says she shouldn't mistake this release for kindness or trust. She says she hopes to earn back both. He says to prove it by reining him in and they'll start from there. She says she understands.
The antidote is administered.
Sophia is dropped off. She takes a moment to enjoy the sunlight.
The antidote seems to work as the patients start to wake up feeling okeedokee.
Sophia boards the train.
The Prez sits in the Oval Office. Christina comes in. She tells him she heard how he got it and she asks if it didn't work out would he have killed those people. He said it did work out. She says that's not an answer. He says it's the only answer he has. She says she's going to take David to school.
Sophia sits on the train.
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