Compound infiltration. Team breaches Thorne's glass house, confronts both Thorne AND Hale. Malcolm directly confronts Hale with evidence of knowing participation. Lyle discovers co-signed targeting criteria and captures DataCorp dead-man protocol, proving Hale was a knowing architect.

Marcus signs the cessation form at dawn. Factions notified. Reeves spends his last evening writing a letter to Sandra, James, and Lily. The next morning, Reeves arrives in a suit, fifteen minutes early. Marcus reads the authorization aloud. Reeves says "I do" and walks five steps to the threshold.

After the city power grid fails plunging Yellowknife into darkness, James leads a fire attack on the community center sheltering 800 civilians. Twelve die including teacher Margaret Whitehorse and eight-year-old David Clearwater.

Controlled tether test with captured ritual materials. Abigail reaches Mal'akheth for 7 seconds through the two-way connection. The void-entity is vast, ancient, reflexive — not a mind but a pressure. Each second advances the corruption.

After the Orthodoxy's failed assault proves convergence expands under pressure rather than collapsing, alternate Marcus returns alone. He reveals the Orthodoxy planned to use his extraction mission as cover to assassinate the other six anchors.

Signal decoded: "Still here. Door closed. Worth it." Kate communicates from inside seal. She's aware, holding barrier, confirms her choice.

Alarms. A Dominion scout ship breaks through weakened warp route. First enemy vessel in 200 years. Rylee destroys it. But the message is clear: they are coming.

Lucas tells Alexis the truth. The original portal closers did not survive. They became the seal. If Kate keeps getting closer to Hollowing... Alexis: "We have to tell her."

Kate awakens to her dimensional connection aboard Valiant, experiencing multidimensional perception that reveals thousands of corrupted ships across branching timelines, the eleven immediate vanguard approaching through dimensional rifts, and The Hollowing observing humanity through their...