Alex is shocked to learn his parents have lied to him all his life, and dragged his sister into spy life. However he has no time to recover emotionally, as both FBI and Russians may discover them and the self-destructed files don't constitute sufficient evidence to come clean. Father convinces him that the Manhattan bomb plan, which both fear to be authentic, can only be countered efficiently without official US red tape. So the family works to prevent either side finding out about the truth. Alex therefore discredits his own Freemason temple theory in Phisa court, steals an FBI access code from a colleague and weirdly dodges expert agent Faber's polygraph test by being consistently off range. Warned for Moscow' wrath if he looses track of the O'Connors, Victor presses Sarah's schoolboy 'study mate' Richie Diberno to plant a bug in her room.
—KGF Vissers