- Joe Carroll gets two of his followers - both right-wing militia types who have received excellent military training - and Roderick to get his wife back to him. The FBI think their systems have been hacked and now want Claire Matthews to move to a new location. She refuses to do so without first speaking to Ryan who arrives just before Carroll's men attack. Ryan and Claire escape and make their way to the home of Ryan's best friend, Tyson, a former FBI agent who is now in the witness protection program. They prepare for battle. At the house meanwhile, Jacob is having some difficulty reconnecting with Emma. Joe asks him to make up with her and gives it another chance. H eventually lets her know just how he feels.—garykmcd
- Jacob wakes up in the compound house and sees Paul walk out of the shower. Jacob, remembering he mercy-killed Paul, is confused. When he looks back, Paul is gone. He sees blood splattered all over the shower and draws back the curtain to see Emma slashed dead. Jacob wakes up with a start.
Richmand FBI HQ They watch news reports about Joe and the cult, which is now being tracked by the FBI, NSA and a bunch of other initials. Amanda Porter is in custody but only talking about her likes (70s rock) and dislikes (Anne Hathaway).
Nick says Ryan can have a go at Amanda only if DC fails in interrogating her. He explains their system was hacked and they might know where Claire is. Ryan insists being in charge of her security.
Joe hears a plan to get Claire from two followers who were raised by "constitutional extremists." Joe wants Roderick to go with them. Roderick says he can't go, he has to work, but Joe insists, reminding him he's failed twice.
Joey sees Jacob and greets him warmly. Jacob gives Emma the cold shoulder, not wanting to hear her explanation.
Ryan arrives at Claire's protective custody in Huntingdon County, Pa. She wants answers. Ryan tells her about the deaths of the other Claire Matthewses.
The militia men walk into the hotel where Claire is being held. Roderick has already taken out a guard and has a master key. They begin searching for her, putting on ski masks and arming up with semi-automatic weapons.
Ryan and Claire watch on the surveillance video as two FBI agents are taken out in a hallway. Ryan and Claire go out the side door of her room. Roderick's men shoot out a surveillance camera. The agent who was guarding Claire barricades his door, but Roderick blasts him through the door.
Ryan hustles Claire to the car, but one of the militia men jumps out and grabs Claire. He holds a gun to her head and threatens to shoot. Ryan points out he can't. Claire elbows the man and gets free and Ryan shoots him in the chest. They get into the car and drive off. The militia man was saved by his bullet proof vest.
Ryan drives a short distance then pulls over. He takes the tracker off the FBI SUV and destroys his cell phone's SIM card, saying he's going to take Claire somewhere safe.
Back at FBI HQ, Debra Parker and Nick try to determine where Ryan might be going. They run facial recognition on the militia men.
Ryan drives up to a house and is greeted by a man wielding a shotgun, and old friend named Tyson. They went to Quantico together. Tyson has been in witness protection for four years, he assures them they're safe there.
2005 Tyson reads Ryan's book about Joe and warns him against publishing it, because he'll become "the Joe Carroll guy." Ryan thinks it might help him.
At the compound, Joey misses his mom and is wary of his serial killer dad. Joe asks Emma to talk to Jacob, saying she did what was asked of her and was taking care of Joey. Jacob imagines seeing Paul, who says Emma is a selfish bitch.
Richmond agents work on decrypting cult emails.
At the compound, Jacob goes to talk to Emma, still angry. She says she's sorry about Paul and loved him, too. She says she was protecting Joey and following Roderick's orders in leaving him, but Jacob is unmoved. She pleads with him, saying she loves him and wishes she could undo things.
At Tyson's house, he chats with Claire as Ryan cleans up. Claire asks about Ryan's past history with women. Tyson says he always pushes them away, including the most recent potentially serious one, Molly.
2008 Flash back to Tyson meeting Molly at a party.
Tyson says if Ryan couldn't make it work with Claire, he couldn't make it work with anyone. When Ryan rejoins them, Claire finds something in her pocket -- a tracker. The militia men tagged her. They don't have a lot of ammo, but Tyson has a shotgun which will blast through bullet proof vests.
At the compound, a pouting Joey asks Emma why his dad's not in jail anymore. She leaves to let Joe answer himself. He comes in and starts making s'mores the wrong way so that Joey will help him. Joey asks when he'll see his mom. Joe says "really, really soon."
Back at Tyson's, Ryan and Tyson stand watch. Ryan tells Claire to barricade herself in an upstairs bedroom. She asks if he's OK and he sees a relationship talk coming. She asks why he didn't call her in eight years. He gives her the "I'm your past, you need to move forward" line. She suggests he could be her future. "What if I told you I loved you?" she says. "I'd say that's a really bad idea... and that I love you, too," Ryan says.
He kisses her.
Outside, the militia men approach in the dark. One gets outside the patio glass door and tries to peer in, only to get blasted away by Tyson. He's dead.
Tyson heads for the back. Ryan goes to check on Claire by hears a noise in the house and goes to investigate. He runs into Claire downstairs. Through the door, Roderick tells Claire no one else has to die and he'll take her to Joey. They're surprised by another masked man outside the house. Then they hear Tyson blasting away. He doesn't hit anyone, but turns around and reveals that he's been shot in the chest. Ryan goes to investigate, giving Claire a gun, and Claire runs after him. She goes outside and finds Roderick at his car. She tosses aside her gun and willingly gets in the car with them, mouthing "I love you" as they drive off.
Ryan races to his SUV but finds the tires punctured.
At the compound, Emma checks on Jacob, saying she loves him and wants to win back his trust. She kisses him and he lets her.
Back at Richmond, HQ, they've hacked Charlie's emails and see a video with lots of creepy imagery. It's stegonography, a website with a hidden portal. They follow the link and see a recording of a man in a Poe mask, addressing the watcher, telling them to enter their email and "someone will get back to you."
As Jacob is getting it on in bed with Emma he imagines seeing Paul looking at him disapprovingly. He gets up and races to the bathroom, where he talks to hallucination Paul. Paul urges Jacob to kill Emma, saying she betrayed her. Jacob imagines stabbing and slashing Paul to silence him as he urges him to kill Emma.
Jacob comes out of the bathroom and confesses to Emma that he killed Paul. "I killed my best friend because of you, I have a real taste for it now. I'd watch my back if I were you," he tells Emma as he leaves her.
At a hospital, Ryan waits for Tyson to wake up. Joe calls, taunting Ryan about Tyson being shot and then about Claire leaving Ryan willingly to come to him. Ryan announces he quits, but Joe tells Ryan he's not done with his rebirth yet. "You can't quit now, you're not quite yet the man you need to be," Joe says. "You go to hell," Ryan says.
2008 As Molly makes dinner in the other room, Tyson tries to talk Ryan out of worrying about his "death curse" of people around him dying. Tyson points out they've known each other 20 years and Ryan hasn't gotten him killed yet.
In the present, Ryan reels at Tyson's bedside.
A visitor arrives at the compound, it's Molly.
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