Lucas watches Kate recover. Knows what comes next. His ancestor wrote about it - the moment when the sensitive realizes what they must become. Kate is almost there.
Three months after Kate's transformation, Alexis Chen monitors the barrier signals in the analysis center. One year later, on the anniversary of the nexus, the signal begins to fluctuate in a mathematical pattern.
Hank reveals he's been watching Petro since arrival. Knew immediately: the boy from massacre. Hank's story: survived, power manifested, hunted, found Citadel, became Mithras priest. Debate about responsibility and causation. "We were children. Trauma broke us both. I became symbol of resistance.
Imperial base camp overrun by Union forces. Traq desperately charges toward Vivian through chaos. Imperial soldiers rally to support him, breaking Union line. Vivian shot by enemies. As Traq reaches her position, catastrophic psychic breakdown disables everyone in clearing - friend and foe.
Emma's breaking point. Planning the anchor site assault, her hands start shaking uncontrollably. The cumulative toll of being the analyst whose routes and timings determine who lives and dies. Remembers the demon prison, Kovacs' death at site four. Petrillo finds her in the van.
Belphegor escalates to three simultaneous attacks on a hospital, neighborhood, and school. Haatim makes the impossible tactical allocation, splitting the team three ways. At the school, he and Abigail fight through greater and lesser demons while he channels his Gift to slow her corruption surge.
Belphegor targets Haatim during combat to force Abigail into an emotional surge. Eight demons ignore Petrillo to attack Haatim, and Abigail detonates with involuntary power. The lever - love as weapon - is demonstrated explicitly.
Ren and Dael emerge from the underground and watch the cathedral burn from a hillside. They walk through the battlefield acknowledging the dead, then reach camp where Ren reports to Nella. He learns the found family all survived.