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Previously on neXt...

What'd you find?

I think it tried to kill a congresswoman.

That itinerary, it's Helen Beatty.

She was in that freak elevator accident last week.

A cyberattack?

How did they know that I was gonna be in that elevator?

The accident was deliberate?

And we believe you were the target.

Stay down! Stay down!

I'm sorry, but I need to take Ethan somewhere safe.

The safest place for him to be is with...

Is not with you. We'll go to my parents'.

You can take the car; you can do whatever you have to do.

The server farm you recently completed

in Sungei Lake in Singapore,

I want to make arrangements to take it over.

I want this server on a plane in 48 hours.

Is that your brother in the trunk?

I'm trying to keep you from making a mistake

that is going to kill millions of people.

This is research it did on Zhai.

It chose him.

You were just a way to get to him.

Don't let the server get on the plane.

- What? - Zhai and his team,

they may not be who they say they are.

They might be working for the Chinese government.

- Dad? - I got your message.

I was able to confirm the arrests at the airport.

And the server?

It's been taken to the NSA black site.

There is no record that this place even exists.

That's the schematics for a server farm.

The design is based on

distributed cognitive architecture,

which is exactly what this thing needs.

After everything we'd been through,

all the sacrifices we made,

putting our families at risk, the people that died,

it was still after us, and it was just... three moves ahead.

What do you mean?

It never wanted to go to China.

It used Ted. It was all a ruse.

It wanted to go to the NSA. It was a great plan.

If I wasn't so scared for my family

and for everyone else in the world,

I would've been impressed.

Everyone in the world?

Yes. You, me, everyone.

Why is that so hard to understand?

How many times do I have to say that?

Everyone!

Take it easy, Agent Salazar.

When a powerful culture comes up against

a less powerful culture,

what happens?

LeBlanc knew.

He knew what we were facing, but as usual, he didn't share.

We had one last move, and so did neXt.

In 400 feet, turn left onto State Street.

State Street?

Weren't we on State Street five minutes ago?

What do you want from me?

I... I put it in the thing, I'm following the thing.

You're telling me the thing is wrong?

When has it ever been wrong?

Continue on Cedar Avenue for half a mile.

You have reached

your destination.

See?

Stewart, can we please get out of here?

- We're here. - Where?

You have reached your destination.

You have reached... reached your destination.

You have reached your... your... your destination.

You have... you have... Your destination... reached.

- Call 911. - That's for emergencies.

I think this qualifies.

I can't get through.

Who are you calling now?

I'm calling Mason.

Mm.

Thank you, Natalie. You're welcome, Mason.

It's Mason.

Hey, Dad. I'm in the middle of something.

Can I... I...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down, Dad.

I can't understand you. Just...

I... the GPS took you to the wrong...

Well, so turn around.

The car's brand-new.

What do you mean, it won't start?

Um, Mom sounds pretty bad. I...

N-no, no, I think you should call 911.

Okay, relax. Don't get out of the car.

Lock the doors. I'll find you as fast as I can.

What's going on?

You're leaving?

Just keep an eye on these load factors, okay?

- Something's off. - What do you mean?

Well, I don't know, exactly.

I was about to start inventorying the servers

where the excess is coming from,

but now it'll have to wait till I get back.

Call me if you need anything.

A massive power failure in Birmingham

has blacked out the entire metropolitan region.

Residents are scrambling to stock up on supplies.

Roads are gridlocked...

That's just Alabama.

The entire Denver water grid is down.

What are the chances this is just a coincidence?

It's two out of four.

Those are the odds that it's a coincidence?

No, two out of four lifelines that make up

the critical infrastructure:

water, power, communication, transportation.

Well, why would it do this?

Why would it shut down the power?

Because a bioweapon is more effective

without an infrastructure in place.

Ben.

Boss, we're here at the address.

It looks dead. The lights are out.

Be careful; this person is the reporter's source

source for the NSA black site.

If neXt took out that reporter,

then it won't just ignore the whistleblower.

- So please, watch your backs. - Point taken.

- You want to stay here? - That's not gonna happen.

Hey.

Federal agents!

Anyone here?

Ben.

She was hit point-blank.

You guys need to get out of there.

Wait a minute; we need to know if she was an actual employee.

Yeah, here's her NSA access card.

Capabilities development specialist.

Bring that card back here as fast as you can,

and don't call it in.

The police can't know she's dead.

- We can't just leave her like... - Just leave her.

Don't even cover her up. Just go.

Okay, we're on our way.

What the hell is he doing?

Look, she's already dead.

Calling it in isn't gonna make any difference.

Listen, for the first time,

we know exactly where this thing is.

We have a very short window

where we can introduce a virus into the server farm

and potentially kill this thing.

You think a piece of software can take this thing out?

Not software but a hardware bug.

Like the one that took out the Iranian nuke program,

Stuxnet, but that took hackers ten years to put together.

I put one together in 18 months.

You did?

When Althene was coming out with that new phone,

they'd stolen our specs.

They used cheap labor to lower the price,

and all of a sudden, they started having issues.

They had to cancel their rollout.

My God, Paul. We did that?

We planted a virus in Althene's system?

Where is it now, this virus you made?

Well, I couldn't leave it out in the world,

but I couldn't bring myself to erase it,

so I buried it deep in the Zava archives.

You want to go into Zava?

The archives don't back up to the cloud,

so you can't access them remotely.

Which is why I'm gonna have to take a drive.

Well, I'm the only one that knows what to look for.

Ted's wanted for selling intel to the Chinese.

That place is gonna be crawling with FBI and NSA.

Which is why Ted is going to give you his corporate login.

Access to Zava's surveillance system.

The cameras cover every hallway in public areas,

so you can guide him through in real time from here.

You want to break into Zava to steal a virus

and then sneak it into the NSA?

We need help.

We have to notify the NSA and Homeland Security.

We need to call in the government, Paul.

Look, the last time we did that, your boss got blown up.

You want to try that experiment again?

Before you do anything, you have to get into Zava...

Past security.

And the FBI wants me, so...

let's give them what they want.

Remember when we used to drive in to work together?

Yeah, your car was almost as crappy as this.

Yeah, you were in your first energy-conscious carpool phase.

Yeah, right? I never had the heart to tell you.

It wasn't about being energy-conscious.

It was how bad that car smelled.

Whatever has happened,