Sage teaches her first class, confronted by Lucas Okafor whose source she killed. Natasha Volkov discovered rebuilding trafficking routes. Maya and Alexei declare love. One year later, Hemlock survives oversight review (8-3 vote). Robert Volkov finds conditional acceptance.
Authorization vote in Geneva succeeds 13-2. Ashworth arrested, Chen tried and convicted. Maya confronts Chen in prison, takes Oleander callsign. Lily says goodbye. Sage and Maya bond in greenhouse. Alexei tends the garden, revealing the person beneath the operator.
Maya authorizes the eight-city coordinated strike despite suspended authorization—knowingly breaking the law to save 237 trafficking victims. Ashworth sabotages the Tokyo satellite feed but uses her own credentials, which Sage traces.
Maya faces forty families in a four-hour video conference, sharing unredacted files and bearing every accusation. Robert Volkov agrees to conditional participation.
Synchronized exposure of three corrupted cells. Ashworth sacrifices Sao Paulo and Cape Town to save Sydney. Sarah Morrison guides Echo through ASIS extraction using her cop instincts — channeling old skills into legitimate framework. Lily calls about Chen, Maya lets her go.
Lily receives David Chen's signed confession letter naming the Board and its eight-agency network. She calls Maya, who connects it to Sage's and Iris's investigations. Maya argues keeping Chen alive for testimony could expose the entire Board conspiracy.
Chen arrives with arrest warrants drafted by Ashworth but uses Maya's intelligence briefing to secure expanded authorization instead. His personal sacrifices are visible - burned relationships, exhaustion, trembling hands. Alliance saved with 30-day review and 60-day kill switch conditions.
Sarah recognizes MI6 elimination teams surrounding her London cell. Seoul cell offers extraction but cannot reach Rachel in Shoreditch. Rachel is killed during breach.
Iris Sawyer receives a warning call giving her 48 hours, but discovers the kill team is already outside. She uploads everything to Maya in a desperate race against the breach.
Maya learns from Alexei that Catherine Hunt murdered her mother to recruit her. After maintaining composure during the briefing, Maya breaks down alone. A taunting Board message forces her back to operational mode while still emotionally shattered—grief unresolved, carrying it raw into action.
David Chen reveals himself as the Board operative who murdered Sarah Blackwell to silence her financial investigation. From his Manhattan penthouse, he watches the Board collapse while composing a letter to Lily that confesses to the murder and claims credit for nurturing Wild Flowers.
Maya extracts Tokyo cell leader Yuki Tanaka from PSIA surveillance. Yuki unknowingly served intelligence agency for 5 years eliminating targets. Underground extraction route compromised; Hanoi operative Jung dies covering escape. Tactical success achieved at human cost.
