Plot

The crew is growing restless and some are refusing to take orders. Chief Prosser and the Captain come to an accommodation however and they agree to work together. The Captain wants to find his three missing crewmen and asks Julian Serrat for his help. There is a price to be paid however and one that he finds difficult to meet leading to a death. In Washington, Admiral Arthur Shepard wants to find out how and why the order to the Colorado went over the Antarctic network. He turns to Kylie Sinclair to get the answers for him. She is despondent however that the schematics for the Perseus system have been stolen from her apartment.—garykmcd

"Last Resort" - "Eight Bells" - 11 October 2012

Things are getting hairy on Sainte Marie and back at home in D.C.

Stateside, Kylie (Autumn Reeser) has become something of a paranoid wreck, so observes her current bedmate Rob who is annoyed that she is loudly watching news reports about the nuclear strike in Pakistan. She gets a call and agrees to meet with someone. Before she does, she puts her hard drive, with all of the tech data for the Perseus prototype, in her home safe. She tells her boy toy not to let anyone in.

She meets with Admiral Shepard (Bruce Davison), Grace's dad. He says he knows she heard the order for the Colorado came through the Antarctic network and she confirms this saying it makes no sense. He says he needs that order. She nervously talks about putting her ass on the line in the wake of her DoD mole ending up in the hospital. He tells her she and her family have gotten rich off being war-mongering weapons-makers without ever getting their hands dirty and wonders if she doesn't want to try being a patriot instead of a parasite. She hands him the piece of paper she got from Linus with the order number on it. He says this will help but she has to do more, make some noise, really start investigating.

The next day she goes to Rob, who is apparently a staffer to a Senator and tells him to nose around about the order. She says please many times. He acquiesces. She tells him to be careful and have the Senator's name on it, not his own. Later, Rob is visited by a man who clearly makes him apprehensive. That man asks Rob if he knows who he is. Rob says he does. The man is glad saying this will make things easier.

Later, Kylie is at home and hears the door. She calls out to Rob but it is not him. She opens her safe and it is empty, the hard drive is gone. She is stricken. The door opens and the man who visited Rob enters. She is relieved, it is her dad, Bennett Sinclair (Michael Gaston), who hugs her as she explains the hard drive withd all the info is gone.

James (Daniel Lissing) takes a boat ride with Tani (Dichen Lachman) somewhere deep within the recesses of the island where her father and brother live life off the grid with a group of others.

During the boat ride we learn that Tani's mom is dead and both of James' parents are still alive. He's not big into sharing.

As they are preparing the night's meal with the group/tribe her brother announces he is about to "become a man" and go through a specific ritual. He then talks about staying here after he does. Tani becomes incensed hoping that her brother would want to rejoin civilization. He says he's happy here. She snaps at him that he doesn't know the difference. She rails at her Chieftan father (Tyler Tuione) and stalks off. Her dad says to James: "My daughter storms off, the sun rises." He tells James he's still welcome to stay. James says he's going to dance with the one that brung him and tracks Tani down.

She is at her mother's grave site lighting candles and leaving a little pile of the ginger candies her mom liked. She explains that her father is not a great guy like James thinks and that when her mother got sick he convinced her to stay on Sainte Marie and use holistic/traditional methods instead of going back to Australia for medical care. She died painfully. James is sympathetic but also can't resist pointing out that he knows Tani brought him here to piss off her dad. She admits she did. They go to the spot where her brother will do his ritual, it's a gorgeous waterfall. (Maybe even the same one where Sawyer and Kate previously swam?) She doffs her dress and dives in. He follows suit. She says it's usually off limits to girls, but she and her mother used to sneak to the spot to swim. Just when it looks like they might get a little, um, closer in the water she says they need to head back.

A fight has broken out in the village square among sailors and village people. It turns out one of the sailors has stolen a banana. XO Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman) sets things right and makes the sailor pay but he's all, we own this place we can do what we want. He then questions exactly what the hell is going on and Kendal throws him in the brig with the Chief of the Boat and the others.

Three soldiers are now missing, Brannan, Cortez, and a third named Red. It's determined that they are not in fact AWOL but kidnapped and it's time to go looking for them. Chaplin (Andre Braugher) decides it would be a good idea to let the COB (Robert Patrick) go free to help with this since he is doing more damage stirring up trouble with those loyal to him. Chaplin asks for his word that he will follow orders and the COB gives it to him. Kendal is unconvinced that this is a good idea and let's COB know as he leaves the brig. COB is then all douchey with Grace (Daisy Betts) back at the NATO station and she gives as good as she gets.

Chaplin receives a call from a White House adviser saying their window for surrender is closing. Chaplin begs off. She then tries to play on his emotions callously telling him that his dead son is sitting in a Navy freezer and won't be given a proper burial until Chaplin surrenders. He hangs up.

In the course of a poker game with a local, James turns up Cortez's watch, which the local was using to bet with. He gives it to Grace and tells her to not say he never did anything for her and then goes off on his island adventure with Tani. So they deduce that local crime lord Julian has the soldiers.

They go to Sophie (Camille De Pazzis) for guidance for dealing with Julian. She is in the process of packing up a small dinghy with her boyfriend and a little girl to go to a larger boat to leave the island. She explains to them that it will have to just be the Captain and herself that meet him as Julian is "sweet" on her. Her boyfriend protests that they have to get going but Sophie says there's time before the warships arrive and she'll be back by six. He says he won't wait for her.

Julian (Sahr Ngaujah) is holding the sailors at his compound and from their appearance, he hasn't been treating them so kindly. It turns out that during the firefight with the Russians an innocent teenage bystander (that we were never shown) was killed. His family is mourning and Julian wants someone to pay. He asks them about Chaplin, how he is as a leader, why he hasn't come for them yet. He clearly feels disrespected that he hasn't been paid an audience. When he's about to take it out on one of them, Cortez (Jessica Camacho) stops him and asks him to speak in private and says it will be worth his while. It is implied that she gave him a sexual favor to stave off his rage.

Just as Chaplin and Sophie arrive and Serrat has his goons throw the sailors in a pit under the compound. He and Chaplin size each other up and both men are supremely cool and confident. When they're done with the obligatory formaalities Chaplin warns Serrat that he should not try to fight because he will lose. Serrat counters that the death he is speaking about is a death by a thousand cuts and that would be no picnic for Chaplin either. He proposes a deal. One of his villagers is dead. He has a shipment of precious cargo that is stuck outside Chaplin's DoD perimeter. Chaplin and his crew must fetch that shipment by sunrise or he will kill Chaplin's sailors.

With few choices, Chaplin and the gang head out to sea and under the noses of the many warships hanging outside the perimeter. On the way they make good time, engage Perseus and get the cargo. On the way back Perseus goes on the fritz and they get made. Two destroyers come after them dropping depth charges that rattle them. They go even deeper running silent. Just when it looks as if they're about to get away a sailor drops a flashlight -- yes, this small noise is enough for the warships to lock on their position and come back to drop more charges. Chaplin makes some smooth moves and they get away but they are running blind without sonar and navigation and are so deep they have to go through a large canyon. With Sophie's remote help -- she's charted the waters here -- she gets them through the canyon with a few scrapes and back to the island. In the process, she notices on the radar that her boyfriend is taking off.

It is past sunrise, however, and Serrat was not joking. He grabs the soldiers and asks Cortez which one he should kill. She can't answer. Then Brannan (Will Rothhaar) speaks up and tells them to off Red (Chad Michael Collins). Yikes. Apparently, they do.

Chaplin shows up and notices he's down a sailor. Serrat says he was late. Chaplin is obviously upset but does nothing and leaves.

Kendal goes to thank Sophie. She explains she's not sad about her boyfriend leaving because she always picks bad ones.

Back in town Chaplin tells Kendal who wants to go off half-cocked and take his revenge. Chaplin stops him. Kendal says all they have right now is their loyalty to each other since they have no country or home anymore. If they don't avenge Red aren't they sending the message that they aren't loyal to their crew? COB is watching this exchange intently. Chaplin says if they make a war with these people it will be the death by the thousand cuts that Serrat spoke off: sabotaged vehicles, IEDs, kidnappings and that they will bleed out. He says they will take retribution at a time and place of his choosing.

He then goes to talk to Cortez. He pours her a drink. She lies and says they picked Red and that he had been mouthy, covering for what really happened. He apologizes. She says no one thinks it's his fault. He joins her in a drink. Kendal enters and seems to eyeball this.

They look down from the Buzzard's Nest and see the funeral procession for the young islander who was killed. Kendal reassures Chaplin that his son will get a proper burial.