- Things seem much too calm for Tom, making him suspicious of his surroundings.
- Tom wakes-up with his wife Rebecca, who asks him who Anne is since he said her name many times. Then he has breakfast with his sons and goes to the University of Boston to give class. He stumble upon a homeless Weaver that asks him to open his eyes, meets Dean Anthony and Philosophy Professor Pope and Professor Marina and gives class where one of the students is Maggie. Along the day he is questioned in many situations whether he wants to go to Boston, Chicago, New York or Jacksonville? But soon he finds where he really is. Meanwhile Anthony seeks out leads for find the mole. Hal, Ben and Matt returns to Charleston and Tom visits his destroyed house.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tom wakes from the sounds of battle and rolls over and turns off his alarm. He's in bed with his wife Rebecca and was dreaming that aliens invaded. It's 10 days before Christmas, he's home in his bed with the house dressed up for the holidays. It's snowing outside. All is right with the world on his idyllic neighborhood street. Inside, he marvels at his wife. She mentions he was talking about a woman named Anne in his sleep. He has no idea who she is.
The family gathers around the table for breakfast. Ben the bookworm reads.
They leave for the day. Ben gets a ride from Deni. A girl named Rita climbs into Hal's car. They're either going to Florida for the Gator bowl or New York to see Rita's aunt for New Year's.
Stopped at a light on the way to work, Tom sees Daniel Weaver, a homeless man, banging on his hood with a sign that says "the end is near." Karen, a police officer, hauls him away.
At school, Tom runs into John Pope, a philosophy professor, who spent the night with Lourdes. Anthony is the Dean of the history department and hears Tom is in line for the spot.
Jeanne Weaver is Tom's secretary. Anne Glass has called twice for him.
Tom gives a lecture about Paul Revere and Longfellow's poem. Maggie and Lourdes are students in his class.
After class, Maggie tells him he's the reason she switched her major. She asks if he's moving to New York.
Back in his office, there's a bottle of McCallan 18 waiting for him with a note: "They'd be lucky to have you as Dean. Love, Anne."
In the teacher's lounge, Marina Peralta talks to Doc C (Cochise actor Doug Jones). Outside, homeless Daniel Weaver rants about the end.
Dai is waiting for Tom in his office. He says he's Anne's husband and thinks they're having an affair. He found brochures for New York, Chicago, Boston and Jacksonville.
Tom sees Weaver hauled away by Karen the cop outside.
Back home at night, Tom is brushing his teeth when he says outloud: "Who is Anne Glass?" Then he wonders what's so important about the four cities he keeps hearing about. Rebecca worries and thinks he has a fever. Tom looks in the mirror and sees his post-invasion self.
The next day at school, there's a note from Anne about their upcoming trip that weekend.
In the lounge, Tom tells Pope he thinks someone is trying to gaslight him. Pope says it's the simulacrum, where he can't tell his real life from his dreams. Tom sees Weaver outside again.
Ben drops by his dad's office and asks where he's going this weekend. Tom rushes out when he gets a text from Anne to meet at a coffee shop.
Anne takes his hand and asks him where they're going, it's his Christmas present. She has brochures for each of the four cities, even though they're in Boston. Tom sees Weaver again. Tom tells Anne he doesn't know her and what she's talking about would blow up his world. She suggests he take Rebecca to one of the four cities. Tom realizes it's not Anne and hears Karen saying "Tell me where you're taking her, you owe me that."
Cut to Tom with an alien probe strapped to his face. A harnessed child rips it off and Karen comes out. She knows the Volm are attacking one of those four cities, which is why she's pushed to get the grid up.
Suddenly Hal, Tom and Ben with Weaver and Pope bust in and grab Karen. She claims she doesn't know where Anne and Lexi are, the overlords took them. So he shoots her in the head.
Tom wakes up in a hospital bed with Ben at his side. He's been out two days. Tom gets up and runs into the war room and tells them Karen has moved up her schedule. Weaver says they're ready to go in 24 hours and asks Tom to lay out the map of their target: either Boston, New York, Chicago or Jacksonville. He realizes it's a trick again and shoots Weaver.
The harnessed child pries the mind control device off Tom's face and he laughs over how worried Karen is. She thinks he'll talk.
Next Karen threatens Anne and Lexi.
Back in Charleston, Maggie and Pope sit watch. Pope thinks Hal's never coming back.
Anthony reports on his investigation to Marina Peralta. Everyone in the hospital at the time of President Hathaway's assassination has an alibi, except Marina. She says she was in her room, guarded by a sentry.
Weaver shares things with Pope, who thinks she's the mole. He suggests that's why she hasn't let him radio Hathaway's people.
Maggie asks Weaver to put him on the first team in on the attack, she's after Karen. They're walking through the hallway when there's an explosion.
Back with the aliens, Karen shows Tom Anne and Lexi, encased in some sort of cocoons. He thinks Karen killed them.
In Charleston, the communications room is in shambles. Weaver would have been in there if Maggie hadn't stopped him, he grants her request to be on the front line. Anthony thinks the explosion is Espheni-made.
Karen tells Tom the defense grid goes operational in a matter of minutes, and then he's lost. She tells him he can save the human race if he tells her the plan. "Never," he says. It starts.
From inside the giant alien structure, Tom watches as an electromagnetic grid of sorts goes up around it. They're a hundred feet in the alien on a platform when suddenly Tom grabs the skitter standing by Karen and jumps off, using the alien as a landing pad.
In Charleston, Weaver tries to get people to refocus as the grid goes up. Marina talks to Weaver, she knows he thinks she's the mole, but she's ready to back the Volm plan because anything the Espheni are putting up can't be good for humans. She hopes he won't take over, because then the New United States will be under military rule.
Weaver goes to tell Pope not to make a move on Peralta, they're going forward with the mission, but she won't know the target.
Back on guard duty, Hal, Ben and Matt come back.
Tom walks alone through wreckage and burned out houses, coming to his own. He goes inside and takes his wife's Christmas list off the fridge. He goes upstairs and lies down on his old bed and cries. He sees his wife, who tells him he was the love of his life and she cherishes every memory of him. She wants him to do one thing for her: Get up and leave and don't come back.
He wakes up and she's gone. Tom gets up and starts walking.
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