- A disaster simulation causes a disaster. Then another. And another. Fargo finds Holly in the computer.
- Sirens and lights go off like crazy, Henry shouts out bad readings. Carter comes in and learns the radar is tracking a missle that's 30 seconds away -- they're under attack, but don't know from who. The shield fails, so Fargo gives the order to shoot the missile down.
They brace for impact, then order Carter to get Fargo to a secure location. In the hall, Ally examines the wounded. Carter checks in with her, they agree to postpone their engagement party.
There's an announcement about power failing and Zane works to fix it. People, smoke and rescuers fill the halls. Another announcement mentions a contamination.
The airlocks come down and the evacuation protocols kick in prematurely -- Fargo's office just dropped 72 floors. Part of the ceiling crashes down on to Larry. "Well, Larry, can't save 'em all," Carter says blithely.
He turns to Carter, who calmly announces his leg is broken, although he's unharmed, and Carter has to carry him down the stairs.
It's too much for Carter. He throws his hands in the air and quits.
The disaster simulation ends.
Later, Henry assesses the damage and finds some of it is actually real.
Carter asks about Grace, who still feels responsible for what happened to the Astraeus crew, and she's weirded out that Henry's NPC tried to kill her.
Henry introduces Dr. Michael Clark, a "severe accidental phenomenologist" who designed the scenario with his computer, ADA. With 29 people "dead" and around 300 wounded, their performance is a solid B+.
Jo is short and brusque with Carter when he tries to make small talk about his engagement. She makes an excuse to leave.
Jo goes looking for Fargo, but finds Zane on the way to the gym. He's on a top secret project and isn't sure when he'll be home.
Carter asks Ally if Jo seems tense. They're postponing the tasting at Vincent's because Ally has actual injuries to treat. He wonders if maybe the simulation went too far.
Zane meets Fargo in the lab for his secret project. It involves an adaptive wave form force field, so no one winds up in the wrong body again. Fargo is looking for closure with Holly.
Carter finds Dr. Clark, sharing his concerns that the drill was too real. Clark brushes him off, saying the damage was minor. As Clark opens the door to his office, Carter notices gas seeping out of the wall nearby. The doors open and they get thrown against the wall.
Later, Henry examines the damage, saying a liquid nitrogen valve ruptured during the drill and caused a kind of explosion. Jo is rude to Carter again and everybody notices.
In the mainframe, Zane gives Fargo an earbud to zap him out of the program in case of emergency. Zane's not sure what Fargo will find in there.
Fargo goes in and ends up in a deserted town. He finds Holly with her head down on a bench. She doesn't know they're still in the matrix. She kisses him. Zane yanks Fargo back awake because his heart was racing. Fargo tells Zane he found Holly intact in there, he thinks she's alive.
Carter races after Jo, who tries to ignore him. She found computer evidence that someone opened the liquid nitrogen valve deliberately. She doesn't want his help looking into it. He finally asks what he did.
She can't believe he doesn't know; she shared something personal with him and he humiliated her. He has no idea what she's talking about.
She tells him when it happened and then realizes he really doesn't know what she's talking about. She sees an out and takes it, saying it doesn't matter.
Alarms go off. They races to the power grid controls but nothing's responding. And then it sparks. Power grid failure is eminent. "Is is just me, or are we getting a crazy case of déjà vu?" Carter wonders.
Later, Henry says power will be out 8 to 10 hours. Jo finds whoever let the liquid nitrogen out in Clark's lab also used the same code to take down the power grid. She tries to call Zane to ask him to hack it. They realize their PDAs aren't working.
In the matrix, Zane suggests Holly is actually conscious in the machine. Fargo goes back in and Jo finds Zane in there. He doesn't want to tell her what he's up to. Jo gets an alert about a containment breach in the animal area.
Fargo finds Holly back in the matrix making daisy chains. She thinks she's stuck in some sort of computer construct, but doesn't realize how long it's been.
Fargo's about to break it to her when Zane has to zap him back out.
Carter drives to fix the cell antennae. He parks his SUV next to what's supposed to be a 200 meter tall communications tower that's really only 3 meters tall. He gets out to check it out and then notices his SUV sinking. Then he's sinking.
Andy arrives to find Carter up to his armpits in a field. The ground is contaminated with a leaking chemical that's turning the ground into liquid. Andy prepares to toss Carter a wire cable.
Jo follows up on the animal escape alert with a team. She finds a hamster, but there's also a chemical leaking into the air.
Back at GD, Carter suggests everything is happening like the disaster drill, but it's real. Carter tenderly holds an oxygen mask to Jo's face, patting her head. Ally sees him.
Zane reports the user code being used is Dr. Clark's. It doesn't make sense that he'd blow up his own lab. Carter suggests it's his computer ADA running things. She's offline but could have set up the simulation before. So this time if they fail, they really die.
Jo asks Ally if Carter's OK after the brain swapping. Jo mentions that Carter's brain was occupied by other people, too. Ally looks like she's about to confess, but she's called away to treat someone.
Henry and Carter confer with Dr. Clark, who's kind of impressed with his malfunctioning program.
Suddenly, the shield starts to fail and a missile is launched. They can't arm themselves and Henry points out no one just has an electromagnetic shield laying around. Zane pipes up. He just happens to have one handy from his work with Fargo.
In the middle of the evacuation, Ally tries again to talk to Jo, but she says it can wait.
Henry relays coordinates for Carter to set up the shield in a field. Even if it's in the right place, they'll only have a few seconds before it degrades.
The missile parts start to fall from the sky and Fargo activates the shield. It works just long enough to absorb the missile.
Disaster averted.
Ally goes to visit Jo and confesses what Jo already knows, that Ally was in Carter's body when Jo confessed her feelings for him. Ally knows she should have said more then. She says seeing her with Carter in the matrix was really hard and so when Jo confessed her feelings, Ally panicked. She apologizes again.
Henry gets a call from Grace, who says she misses her.
At Vincent's, Fargo tells Jo that Zane is helping him, but he won't say more.
Carter and Ally sample food for their party. Jo gets up and makes a toast to her "very best friend" and congratulates him for getting a "highly intelligent" woman to marry him.
Fargo sees all the happy people and heads back to GD. He plugs himself back in and confesses to Holly that he can't pull her out. He tells her she didn't make it. She doesn't feel dead, although "that does explain why I haven't peed in a month," she says. He says he wants to keep seeing her. "So what happens next?" she asks.
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