When the mother ship hits dark matter, the ship dos not begin to heal itself. Zo'or is left in an unconscious state and Sandoval takes control. He decides it is time to liberate the Earth from the Taelons.
An escaped Jiridian takes Lili hostage. Their shuttle is sucked on to a Kimera ship where they, with Liam, have to go through an obstacle course to get to the core to exit.
A new inter-dimensional portal system for human travel turns out to be something more when the resistance discover a CVI in a boy who got lost in the system.
Sandoval's CVI is breaking down. While Dr. Belman tries to remove it before implanting a new one, Sandoval escapes. He wants to rescue his wife DeeDee.
An excavation team unleashes a very dangerous Taelon on Earth. Siobhan Beckett comes over to America. She suspects Lili of being a spy and investigates.
When Street solves the 8th dimension of Ma'el's riddle, a beacon leads Liam to a chamber with a healing pool. However, there is only enough in the healing pool to help 6 Taelons. Zo'or will do anything to insure his own life.
The Taelons announce that they will all go into death stasis and wait on the mother ship for humans to discover how to create core energy and revive them. Zo'or and Da'an don't trust each other to be the last to submit to stasis.
Dr. Belman's daughter does human testing on herself with an accelerant that causes her to rapidly evolve. Joshua Doors decides somebody should run against President Thompson in the election, somebody who will stand up to the Taelons.