- Three months have passed, now mobilized the 2nd Mass. persists on the run without Tom, but a flaw makes them prey to attack. Tom sees the traps of good and evil on the long road home after fleeing, but questions of his escape go unanswered.—UptownRox
- While ambushing Skitters, Ben accidentally hits his father Tom that has been missing for three months. While recovering from the serious wound, Tom recalls the period that he was tortured by the Overlord; how he was left in an open field with other humans and spared by the Skitter with one red eye; and his journey back to the 2nd Mass with the teenager Teresa that was saved from an attack by him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- (from the season finale) A harnessed Karen leads Tom, willingly, onto the alien ship.
Three months later, Pope, Weaver, Dai, Anthony lead a resistance through the streets and draw the aliens into a trap on the ground as Maggie, Hal and Ben ambush from above.
Pope especially enjoys taking the skitters out, reminding everyone to go arms and legs first, then heads for the kill shots. Ben has to be told to quit firing and when he notices one still moving, he Spider-Man jumps out of the building and takes it on with a knife.
They hear noise down the street and see another skitter. Ben shoots it and when it falls they see their long-lost father Tom behind it, but he's been hit by Ben's shot.
At the recon point, they take note that it took the skitters less than the expected eight minutes to show up with reinforcements.
Back at base, Anne checks on the casualties. They bring Tom in. He's hit in the side and the bullet's still inside. Eight-year-old Mat comes in and cries over seeing his wounded father.
On the operating table, Tom flashes back to his time on the alien ship. They kept him locked up, zapping him until harnessed Karen intervened. She reassured her she's still Karen, but with a dreamy, creepy far-off tone in her voice that makes him doubt her. He wants to know how he can help unharnessed Ben.
She tells him the aliens are allowing the resistance to surrender. They're just an "inconvenience." She tells him once he hears their offer, he'll understand. She takes him in to see an overlord.
At camp, the bullet is out of Tom, but he's weak. Weaver is worried about the harness effects on Ben, he's noticed some changes in him. Weaver is also worried because they haven't heard from any of the other units since the attack on Boston three months ago.
On the ship, the overlord talks through Karen to Tom. He explains they've studied human history in great detail. They're offering to set aside a protected area where human survivors would be located, a concept taken from Cambodia or Nazi Germany. "Be honest, oppression is in your nature," it says. They'll decide whether humans live or die.
At camp, Matt tries to convince Ben he's old enough to fight.
Maggie and Hal flirt over reloading magazines. Hal checks with Ben to remind him he should have followed orders.
Pope and Maggie head out on a mission trying to plan how to draw skitters into their trap. A beamer, a flying alien, swoops overhead and they take over. It roasts their truck and Pope's Harley.
Back at camp, Hal reports it looks like they targeted the truck. They think they have heat sensing capabilities. Without trucks, the resistance isn't mobile, and they're sitting ducks.
The next day, Weaver talks to Jamil, engineer and tech expert, wanting a way to move the trucks without the aliens being able to pick up on the engines.
Flash back to the ship, the overlord commands Tom to lead his people to the neutral zone. Tom cautions them not to draw too many lessons from the past. He grabs a weapon off a skitter nearby, cracking it in the head and blinding it in one eye, and then zaps the overlord, but they quickly knock him out.
Tom is let off the ship in a field with other captive resistance leaders. As the ship takes off, Tom realizes something isn't right. The ship takes off leaving just a mech and the red eyed skitter he wounded behind. They quickly mow down every human but Tom, teaching him a lesson.
At camp, Ben shows Matt how to shoot. Hal and Maggie find them and Hal takes rifle, which has live ammo in it. Hal reminds him their dad didn't want that for Matt. Ben just doesn't want the aliens to be able to take Matt, like they did him, or Karen.
When he says Karen, Hal gets angry and rushes him. Ben grabs him and is easily able to hold him off with his superior harness strength.
Tom finds a map at a burned out convenience store and sees he's in Michigan. He starts walking., following the train tracks.
One day he comes on a man trying to steal from a teenage girl. Tom attacks him and gets his gun, scaring the man off. There's a body nearby.
He wants to look at the girl's bike. She is scared and doesn't trust him. He wants to borrow the bike to Boston and she can come with him. They bury her friend first.
Anne reports to Weaver, who's worried about what happened to Tom on the ship. He offers her some 30 year old Glenfiddich he found. Weaver feels responsible for letting Tom go and the lack of success they've had fighting.
Jamil reports in with fiberglass, saying the warehouses nearby are full of it and if they wrap the engines, they won't heat through for an hour.
Anne gets called to Tom, who's feverish and bleeding again. She thinks she missed a fragment of the bullet inside him.
On the road, Tom and friend arrive outside Boston. They're near the school, but Tom knows his people wouldn't be there anymore. The girl tells him the woman they buried was her mom. She's lost all hope.
Back at camp, Anthony tries to figure out Pope's motivations. Hal reports a mech convoy a mile out headed toward camp, but they can't move Tom yet.
Weaver orders the convoy to leave. Maggie, Hal, Ben and Dai stay with the medical bus. Anne operates by flashlight.
Outside, Hal orders everyone to hold their fire as the mech pass by.
The mechs clomp past the bus. Anne finds the fragment in Tom.
The mechs don't stop.
The medical bus meets up with the convoy.
Flash back to Tom and his friend entering the city. He hears people firing and stops. She wants to go into the mountains like her mother was planning. She rides off.
Tom follows the sound of gunfire and Weaver's voice and comes upon a skitter. He fires on it then skewers it with rebar. He's struggling with it when Ben fires on him.
Tom wakes up in the bus next to Anne. Ben comes in and apologizes. Tom knows it was an accident. He's reunited with all of his boys.
He gets back on his feet and says hi to everyone.
Pope is suspicious out of how Tom got free.
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