- Tom and the 2nd Mass hatch an elaborate plan to escape the confines of the Espheni Ghetto. Meanwhile back in Chinatown, after learning from Ben that Lexi has been keeping a deadly secret, Maggie confronts Lexi publicly. At the Espheni Youth Camp, Matt tries to talk Mira out of a dangerous escape plan. While trekking through the woods with her guerrilla fighters, Anne has a flashback to her time in the Espheni Tower with Karen, where a terrifying secret about Lexi is revealed.—Anonymous
- Tom reviews the escape plan with South African Dingaan Botha, who is building a special suit to cross the force field and cut the power supply from the spaceship, Hal, Tector, Pope and Weaver. Tom creates a diversion to attract the alien while the power is cut. He burns the leader Espheni and the Skitters pursuit him to the building where he was locked up with Weaver. Then he detonates a bomb, blowing up the building and the aliens. Ben discloses to Maggie that he saw Alexia meeting an Espheni nearby Chinatown and then he confronts his sister that breaks Maggie's wrist. Maggie continues to question Alexia that says that she is part Espheni. Matt is in terrible situation in the reeducation camp seeing what has happened to a brainwashed mate. He befriends the girl Mira. Anne and her group continue to look for Alexia walking in the woods without supplies and they reach Chinatown.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tom leads a pack of skitters through the camp, getting them to follow him to a building. He climbs up the stairs inside to get a good view of the green force field wall, and gets worried when it isn't down as planned.
60 hours earlier Tom thinks the skitterization of the humans will begin in the next 48 hours. He reviews his plan with Hal to cut the power tether to the alien ship to bring down the wall. "When we get out of here, we're going to take the fight to them," Tom says.
Tom checks in with the escape artist Dingaan Botha on the progress of the construction of the copper suit that is supposed to help him scale the wall to cut the tether.
Back in Chinatown, Ben tells Maggie about seeing Lexi meet with an Espheni. Maggie straps her guns back on and Ben tries to convince her not to go off half-cocked.
At the re-education camp, Ken the creepy leader introduces Sheila, who is back from her time in the field. She introduces her parents Bill and Martha and her dad says he's accepted the new paradigm and is ready to accept a better world with the Espheni. As they're led away to an adult camp, her mother yells at her, asking how she could betray them. Matt claps dutifully in his seat.
In Chinatown, Ben confronts Lexi about meeting with an Espheni. Lexi readily admits it and says she's the bridge between the species. When Maggie gets angry, Lexi grabs her wrist and easily breaks it.
Maggie draws her gun and demands answers. Lexi says the Espheni are a part of her and they want peace. She warns Maggie that if she raises her gun again, Chinatown will no longer be safe.
Tom reviews the plan with Botha, telling him he plans to use the same approach Geronimo used to defeat the Mexican army, drawing them out with a distraction into an ambush. Botha is worried about only having the 90 seconds his suit will last to climb the wall and set the bomb, then hope it's strong enough to cut the power.
Anne, Anthony and Deni make their way through the woods toward the west to find Lexi. Anne is weak from passing up her food rations and gets light-headed and passes out.
In the re-education camp dorm, Mira worries to Matt that if she doesn't leave soon she'll crack under the brainwashing. He urges her to go along until they graduate and will be released on their own. That night, she hides a pair of stolen wire cutters under an empty bunk. The next morning Ken comes in with guards, who toss the beds until they find the wire cutters. When he demands someone confess or they'll all be punished, Matt takes the blame.
Tom review his plan with Hal, Dingaan, Tector, Pope and Weaver. Tom is meeting with the Espheni, ostensibly to surrender, but instead he'll provoke a confrontation to get them to chase him through the camp, away through Dingaan scaling the wall. Weaver and Pope will provide cover and Hal will lead the people of the camp out through the sewer tunnel. Tom is going to lead his pursuers back to the empty building where he and Weaver were held in solitary, but it will be wired to blow.
Pope does his usual doubt-sowing, but Tom shuts him up.
In Dingaan's lab, Tector builds the ammonium nitrate bomb for the tether.
Hal leads groups of people down into the sewer to wait.
As Anne lies unconscious in the forest, she has a fitful memory about her time on the Espheni ship, when she woke up to an Espheni attached to her pregnant belly like an external umbilical cord, saying the child was theirs.
Tom meets with an Espheni commander as planned on the streets of the camp. He pulls out his flame thrower and fries it then hopes on his bike and drives off, with skitters in pursuit.
Dingaan, Weaver and Pope are ready to go when a piece of debris falls on Dingaan's hand, crushing it. Weaver starts to put on the suit but Dingaan points out with his heart condition he'd get fried. Pope volunteers.
He puts on Dingaan's metal suit and scales the fence wall, with Pope and Weaver providing cover fire. But when Pope gets to the top he drops the backpack carrying the bomb. He climbs down to get it, but Dingaan worries the suit won't last much longer.
An elderly couple takes their time getting down to the sewer, drawing the attention of a skitter.
Pope's suit starts to disintegrate when he gets to the top and he is zapped as he falls to the ground on the other side.
The skitters find the people down in the tunnel and one grabs the elderly man. Hal stabs it then calls for help barricading the door.
Pope comes to on the ground and peels off the smoldering suit. He twists the wires of the bomb together and puts it on the tether then ducks for cover. It explodes, but Pope sees that the center cord of the tether remains unscathed.
Meanwhile, Tom has most of the pack of skitters on his trail as he heads into the old building. From high above, he sees that the wall isnt' down yet.
Pope picks up a piece of shrapnel and starts whacking at the tether until he breaks through.
The wall flickers and comes down.
From six stories up, Tom presses the detonation on his bomb and as the building blows he jumps into the river below.
Anne wakes up in the forest and orders scouts go out looking for Lexi. She can feel she's close.
Outside the re-education camp, Cochise spies as Matt is taken somewhere.
In Chinatown, Lexi tells Ben she can feel they're close.
Moments later, Anne and her people walk into the peaceful town. Anne hugs Ben and recognizes Lexi immediately.
Outside the camp, Tom congratulates Pope, who tells Tom he should trust more.
It's dark and they're out in the woods, but Weaver thinks he hears something. An alien head watches them, then ducks.
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