- After freeing Matt from the Espheni Youth Camp, Tom encounters two mysterious strangers in the woods, who attack his family before embarking with him on a violent journey. Hal faces almost insurmountable odds as he tries to lead the remaining Volm and 2nd Mass to a place of perceived safety. Lexi and Anne have a difference of opinions - resulting in dangerous consequences.—Anonymous
- Tom, Weaver and Matt are heading to meet their friends but they do not have any food. Out of the blue, they stumble upon the brothers Nick Phillips and Cooper Marshall that offers them food. Tom discloses to Weaver that he suspects the guys and on the next morning, Cooper shoots at Weaver and Matt in the sleeping bags and capture Tom to trade him with the Espheni. Meanwhile, the Alexia's Espheni is restrained by Anne and Anthony. Meanwhile, Dr, Kadar checks Alexia's condition and soon Annie learns that the Espheni is Alexias' father.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tom Mason crawls through the thick grass. He's about to shoot a rabbit, but Matt stops him, even though they haven't eaten in three days.
They finally reach the rendezvous point and find it empty. But they see Hal's "Croatoan," message with numbers that Tom figures are coordinates. He checks a map and finds it's 30 miles to the southwest.
Matt turns on the radio and hears a fragment of Lourdes' message. They duck for cover as a skitter searches for them. Tom notices a tall Espheni behind it and he and Matt make their way out the door after creating a diversion. The Espheni tracking them is the one Tom flambéed with his flame thrower.
Out on the road, Hal and Tector hit a mech sentry roadblock. Pope and Dingaan return with bad news about more mech roadbloacks. Hal suggests they need more intel and wants to consult the Volm.
Meanwhile, back at the Croatoan rendezvous, Tom, Weaver and Matt check in with Cochise. He says he has to head back to his men to follow progress on stopping the Espheni power source. He promises to find them again soon.
Back outside Chinatown, Anne and Maggie have the Lexi Espheni strung up in chains and Anne interrogates it through Ben. He insists he's acting alone and Lexi is very important. The Espheni does something to Ben through his spikes and they stop the interrogation.
Weaver, Tom and Matt see people grilling something and decide to approach them. After a few wary moments, the men, brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Cooper Phillips, welcome Tom when he introduces himself and they realize he's the Ghost. They share their food.
Back in Chinatown, Lexi is angry at Anne for breaking her word and taking the Espheni captive. Lexi uses her powers and starts choking Anne, only stopping when Lexi herself collapses.
After nightfall, Tom and Weaver talk to Nick, who used to work at Goldman Sachs. He says his brother was a sous chef. Tom notices they are really well equipped. Nick says they came across a well stocked Mormon farm and took everything they could carry. Nick says they escaped from a skitter farm. He describes seeing the people as they were being tested on, which upsets Weaver as he thinks of his skitterized daughter, Jeanne.
Cooper hurls a knife near Nick, showing off, but it makes Tom nervous. Tom says goodnight and he and Weaver briefly confer, agreeing they don't trust their new friends. Tom takes the first watch.
Hal meets with Shaq, Cochise's second-in-command Volm. Hal wants to use their bug sized drones to track mech movements, but Shaq says they're busy searching for the Espheni power source. He has a "highly irregular" suggestion instead.
Nick joins Tom standing guard. Tom is openly skeptical, bringing up the Mormon farmhouse again and saying it's suspicious. They hear shots from their camp and Nick knocks Tom out. Back at camp, Cooper empties his gun into Weaver and Matt's sleeping bags, gritting his teeth as he fires.
Later, Weaver checks the sleeping bags they set up. He promises Matt they'll find his dad.
Nick and Cooper take Tom somewhere, telling him there's a bounty on his head. When Tom asks, Cooper says he shot Matt and Weaver while they slept. Tom drags his foot as they walk to leave a clear trail.
Back in Chinatown, Dr. Kadar checks on Lexi, who is unconscious and feverish in bed. Lourdes blames Anne for upsetting her. Dr. Kadar checks his thermometer, which reads 118. They assume it's broken. Lexi wakes up enough to say she's on fire.
Back at the mech sentry line, Hal waits for one to pass on its usual schedule, then he, Shaq and Tector string a rope across the road. When the next one passes, Hal walks out behind it and flings a rock at its head, then runs.
Sara (Mira Sorvino) joins Pope in his truck, wanting pointers on how to fight back. She joins him for his ride.
The mech stops just before its tripped by the rope, but then Pope nails it with his truck, knocking it down. Shaq runs up and removes something like a mechanical heart/processing core from it.
Weaver easily follows Tom's tracks. Matt is fired up and wants revenge. Weaver talks him down, telling him not to let his hate destroy him. Matt says he understands, but he still wants to hurt them.
On the road, Tom tries to turn Cooper against his brother as Nick continues to bark orders. Tom gets close enough to Cooper to head butt him, so Cooper decks him in return.
They stop for awhile, and Nick leaves Cooper to watch Tom. Tom starts talking to Cooper, telling him about his children, including Matt. He keeps reminding Cooper that the one he killed was named Matt.
Tom gets to him. Cooper tells him he had two kids, but they died.
From the trees nearby, Weaver lines up his rifle scope on Cooper. Matt stops him and Weaver thinks he's upset. But Matt wants to take the shot. Weaver lets him line it up, but Weaver is glad when Matt can't take the shot. After reassuring Matt that his hesitation makes him human and that's good, Weaver moves up to get a better shot.
Anne goes to the bound Espheni, demanding he help Lexi.
Maggie and Ben have a moment as she checks on him. Anne realizes the Espheni isn't going to help her and starts wailing on it with a board.
Suddenly in the other room, Ben drops to the floor screaming and deep bruises appear on him as he screams out "flower."
Maggie races to Anne to stop and relays the message. She knows what it means.
When Nick returns, he tells Tom they'll send up a flare and meet the Espheni soon. Tom asks Nick how he escaped the skitter farm, and guesses that Nick traded their friends and family for their freedom.
Cooper is horrified when he realizes his brother traded his son's lives. When Cooper pulls a gun on him, Nick insists the kids wouldn't have survived long and he did it to save them.
Nick thinks Cooper won't shoot because they're brothers. He's wrong. Cooper shoots Nick.
Then he turns to Tom, saying there's nothing to live for. He's ready to fire when Weaver takes Cooper out.
Out on the road, Shaq hardwires the Mech, jumpstarting just its operating system. He patches into the Espheni command broadcast and shows Hal real time locations for all the Espheni, including a safe path to Chinatown.
Anne gives her daughter tea made from a special flower that Lexi showed her. Lexi whispers something to Lourdes and she leaves.
Lexi asks her mom to promise not to hurt her Espheni again, but Anne won't promise it. "I don't want to choose between you and him," Lexi says to her mother, ominously.
Hal and Dingaan reach the edges of Chinatown.
Still on the road, Matt asks Tom why Cooper killed Nick. Tom tells him they weren't real brothers, because real brothers look out for each other.
Later that night, Maggie busts into Lexi's room and tells Anne that someone knocked out Anthony and let the Espheni go.
Anne asks Lexi how she could do such a thing. "Because he's also my father," she says.
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