Carter survives the crash; Donnelly is dead and Reese has been taken by Kara Stanton. Reese, with a bomb strapped to his vest like Mark Snow, is forced into doing fieldwork together. The two steal a hard drive and are assigned to install it.

The Machine grants both Reese and Root full administrative access and saves Reese and Root from a number of potential threats. Root and Finch arrive at the Hanford nuclear facility where the Machine is kept, followed shortly by Reese and Shaw, Reese, being slowed as the Machine directs him to rescue […]

The new number is Congressman Roger McCourt , who serves on the powerful Rules Committee. The team is initially baffled: He has no obvious enemies. They eventually discover a connection to Decima: