Sam's school band has also been redirected to the United States Capitol to play for the president, bringing the trigger in Sam's trumpet and the explosive together. Because Secretary Callister agreed with ARIIA's abort recommendation regarding Balochistan, he is to be the designated survivor and new president after the crystal detonates at the State of the Union (SOTU).Īnother of ARIIA's agents extracts Rachel from the Pentagon and gives her a dress and the explosive necklace to wear to the SOTU. citizens, ARIIA concluded that 'to prevent more bloodshed, the executive branch must be removed.' ARIIA is acting on behalf of ' We the People', and cites the Declaration of Independence ('whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it').īelatedly, Jerry learns he has been brought to circumvent biometric locks placed by his twin that prevent ARIIA from activating Operation Guillotine, a military simulation of maintaining government after the loss of all presidential successors. Both groups learn that after ARIIA's recommendation was ignored and a botched operation in Balochistan resulted in the deaths of U.S. Afterwards, ARIIA smuggles Jerry and Rachel into her observation theater under the Pentagon. Perez and Bowman find evidence that Ethan Shaw hid in ARIIA's chamber and leave to brief Callister. Simultaneously, Rachel and Jerry learn that the woman on the phone is actually ARIIA, and that she has 'activated' them according to the Constitution's authorization to recruit civilians for the national defense. Callister leaves Perez with Major William Bowman and ARIIA to investigate Ethan Shaw's death. Ethan monitored the Department of Defense's top-secret intelligence-gathering supercomputer, the Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst (ARIIA / ɑːr iː ə/). Another man steals Sam's trumpet in Chicago and fits the crystal's sonic trigger into the tubing before forwarding it to Sam in Washington.Īgent Perez is summoned by Secretary of Defense George Callister to be read into Ethan's job at the Pentagon. Meanwhile, the caller redirects a crystalline explosive to a gemcutter, who cuts it and fixes it into a necklace. The woman on the phone helps the two avoid law enforcement by controlling networked devices, including traffic lights, mobile phones, automated cranes, and even power lines.

The woman on the phone is coercing Rachel by threatening her son Sam, who is aboard the Capitol Limited en route to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. While Morgan confers with Air Force OSI Special Agent Zoe Pérez, the woman on the phone arranges for Jerry's escape and directs him to Rachel Holloman, a single mother. Jerry is caught by the FBI and interrogated by Supervising Agent Tom Morgan. He receives a phone call from a woman who warns that the FBI is about to arrest him and he needs to run. Following the funeral, Jerry is surprised to find $750,000 in his bank account and his apartment filled with illegal firearms and bomb making materials. In January 2009, Stanford University dropout Jerry Shaw learns that his identical twin brother Ethan, an officer in the U.S.

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