- When a mission goes terribly awry, Tom and Pope must rely on each other to survive. Meanwhile, Weaver and company search desperately for two members of the 2nd Mass who have gone missing.
- Anne and Alexis are missing and Professor Kadar discloses that Alexis is an alien to Weaver, Peralta and a few others. Weaver organizes a search group to look for them. Meanwhile Tom and Pope survive the plane crash but Bressler does not make it. The friction between Tom and Pope Increase and Tom twists his ankle and Pope is forced to leave him behind. Marina shows Professor Kadar the photos of what the Volm are building, surprising him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tom wakes up in the wreckage of their plane crash. Bressler, the pilot, is dead. Tom pulls Pope from the wreckage as the plane goes up in flames.
Back in Charleston, Hal is woken up in his room by Ben, reporting that Anne and Alexis are missing. Later, Dr. Kadar explains the DNA test he ran on Alexis to Hal, Ben, Matt, Lourdes, Weaver and Marina. He explains that Alexis is a hybrid, human-alien.
Weaver wants to send out a search party, but Marina Peralta, the acting president, doesn't think they can spare the men from protecting Charleston. He explains the members of the 2nd Mass are family and he has to go look for Anne. She gives him 24 hours and worries how people will react to the hybrid baby. She makes clear that she completely understands what they're fighting for.
In the forest by the crash, Pope blames Tom for rushing off to Keystone when they knew they had a mole. A beamer hovers overhead, scanning for them. When it flies off, Tom gets up, but Pope yanks him back down, saving him from its returning search beam. As someone who knows how to hide from the authorities, Pope suggests they wait it out.
Back in Charleston, Matt wants to go on the search party. Hal (who was the last person to see Anne, even though nobody knows it), says no, but Weaver overrules him.
Marina comes to say good-bye to Weaver, gently. Jeanne watches the scene informs her dad that Marina likes him (in case you, the home viewer, missed it).
In the forest, Tom plans to walk back to Charleston. Tom realizes that the president hadn't given them the coordinates to where ever they were traveling, so how could the mole have known where to shoot them down? Pope chalks it up to Tom being the "king of chaos."
The search party, which includes Weaver, Hal, Maggie, Ben and Matt, stops when they see blood on the ground outside an old abandoned building. There's a body at the top of the front steps. Weaver inspects, but it's not Anne. Matt wants to stop and bury her.
Back in the forest, Tom wants to stop and make camp, but Pope argues they should keep moving. Tom needles Pope for not knowing how to build a fire. Tom gets to work essentially rubbing two sticks together. Pope taunts Tom for the idyllic childhood he imagines he had, but Tom says his father was a mean drunk and it's a miracle he survived.
Weaver says a few words over the dead woman they found. Matt takes a bracelet off her. They imagine what kind of mother she was. Hal remains aloof and distant and Maggie notices.
Marina visits Dr. Kadar, who is at work running the DNA of the other seven children who were born in Charleston. She shows him photos of the giant machine the Volm are building and asks him to determine what it is; she says Tom Mason sent her.
The search party stops for food. Matt and Ben talk about their last memories of their mom. Ben remembers being bothered by seeing their mom's body later, with a shoe missing. Matt worries about finding Anne.
In the forest, Pope roasts squirrel over a fire. Tom says his wife, Rebecca, did most of the cooking. He cooked breakfast for them on the weekends. Pope mentions his two kids, Brandon and Tonya. He last saw them five years ago. He tells Tom a story about working on a mini-bike with his son. A car raced by as his son was riding down the driveway and Pope confronted the driver. They got in a shouting match and Pope decked the driver, knocking him to the ground. His head cracked. The man died. "I was never cut out for a home life, but prison I understood," Pope says.
In the morning, Pope wakes Tom up by dropping a dead snake on him. Pope is laughing, but Tom doesn't think it's funny and says they're not pals now. They start fighting, bashing each other over trees, escalating, using branches and finally pulling knives until they hear skitters in the woods and hide. They blast one and run, but Tom realizes they're surrounding them. Tom and Pope reach a rushing river 50 feet below. Pope can tell what Tom is thinking and thinks it's a terrible idea, but before he can protest, Tom tackles him over the edge.
They wash up down the river, but alive. Pope decks Tom, and Tom pulls his gun. Then Tom tells him it's over, Pope wins. Tom tries to get up and realizes his ankle is badly hurt.
Searching for Anne with her dad, Jeanne worries about the aliens turning humans into them. She asks him to promise he won't let the aliens use her.
They stop when Ben finds a baby blanket in a puddle.
Maggie asks Hal what's going on with him, saying he's been acting weird. Ben sees human and skitter tracks together. Weaver plans to ask the rebel skitters to spy. Maggie sees Hal look around, seemingly angry at the sloppiness of the skitters.
Tom and Pope try to get dry. Tom is still trying to figure out how the Espheni tracked their plane. Pope puts Tom's ankle in a splint with a belt and tree branch, but Tom still can't put weight on it. Tom tells Pope to go without him. When Pope resists, Tom tells him he's a coward for not having the balls to walk out of the forest without him. It works. Pope takes his coat and leaves.
As night falls, Tom is cold and alone.
Marina visits Kadar, who is puzzled by the Volm technology. He says it has way more power than it should need. It might not be what they think it is. Kadar realizes Tom didn't ask her to look into it.
Kadar tells her all the other children's DNA tests were negative for alien DNA.
At night, Tom dreams his sons come to get him, saying Lexi needs his help. He wakes up when he hears skitters approaching. He shoots one, but the other keeps coming -- until someone blasts it away. Pope is back. "There's only one thing I can't stand more than you on this planet, that's skitters," Pope says.
He helps Tom through the forest to a gassed up truck he found.
Back in Charleston, Matt hands the dead woman's bracelet on the Liberty Tree, for his own mother. Hal watches coldly from a distance.
Tom and Pope limp back into Charleston.
Tom wakes up in the infirmary two days later with Pope at his bedside. He's been there the whole time. He wants to get their stories straight -- they each saved each other's lives, so now they're even. Weaver reports that the Volm are searching for Cochise.
Of their tie, Pope tells him "next basket wins."
Matt, Ben, Hal and Maggie come visit. Tom asks about Anne and Lexi. Weaver tells him they're missing.
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