TEXT: INT. BELFAST - UNKNOWN In an office building with a security desk, people are running everywhere. Armed police are running up some stairs. There's a bomb in an alcove on a wall. Two bomb technicians are trying to disarm it. BT2: This is way out of my league. BT1: Motion sensor. A dedicated board running God knows how many programs. There's no way we's shut this down in time. Our best bet is to try and defuse the motion sensor and get this thing off-site in a blast-containment vessel before it vaporizes the block. BT2: Can you do that? BT1 doesn't answer. BT1: I found the lead for the motion sensor. Cutting it. He cuts the white wire. BT1: It's no good. It's still operational. It must be looped. BT2: What the hell do we do now? BT1: Your guess is as good as mine. BT2: My kid's favorite color is red. BT1 gets ready to cut the red wire. BT2 nods. BT1 cuts the red wire, and the scene immediately cuts off... [SCENE_BREAK] INT. - ROTUNDA - CONFERENCE ROOM Pictures from the blast are shown on the monitor. DIXON: The Wicklow National Bank building, or what's left of it. VAUGHN: Do we know who's responsible? DIXON: His name is Daniel Ryan. This morning we intercepted a message he sent to the Covenant for the bombing. JACK: Ryan's former Royal Navy, explosive ordinance disposal. After his dishonorable discharge, he went from disposing. bombs to designing them. He's worked with the Covenant in the past and wants to sell them his latest product. SYDNEY: So he displays their effectiveness by destroying a downtown office building? JACK: Actually, Ryan alerted local authorities, gave them time to evacuate the building. WEISS: So he's a humanitarian bomber? JACK: His goal was to provide a state-of-the-art bomb squad
SUMMARY:
Sydney and Vaughn must convince bomb maker Daniel Ryan that they are part of The Covenant in order to find out where he has hidden one of his devices. But Sydney discovers that her ties to the bomber could lead him on a suicide mission. Daniel Ryan, former bomb disposal expert, has created a bomb and detonates it in public to advertise his skills and prove that the bomb cannot be disarmed. He is willing to sell the bomb to The Covenant. Based on information from Lysanker, the CIA captures Ryan, under the guise of representing The Covenant. They reproduce a Moscow hotel in order to convince Ryan that he is dealing with The Covenant. Ryan agrees to the deal, but demands that the information be provided only to Sark on a scheduled airline flight. When the contact does not eventuate, the CIA investigates Ryan and discovers that The Covenant had killed his brother. It was Sydney who had performed the murder, during a test of loyalty (explained in Full Disclosure, episode 11). A bomb is then discovered on board the plane carrying Vaughn and Sark which will activate if the plane descends to land. The CIA reveal their identity to Ryan but he refuses to help. Sydney sympathizes with Ryan, explaining that The Covenant also stole a part of her life when turning her into Julia Thorne. Ryan then agrees to disarm the bomb, supplying a pager code. However, this actually activates the timer of the bomb on board the plane, together with one held in the CIA office, with only 5 minutes until detonation. Ryan explains that he knows it was Julia Thorne who killed his brother. Jack manages to coerce Ryan into providing a deactivation code and both bombs are stopped with one second remaining.