Glass House

Six weeks after the raid, Kate and Malcolm recover in a Maine cottage. New opening paragraph bridges the thriller aftermath (depositions, congressional hearing, media siege, U.S. Marshals) to the quiet retreat, framing Maine as tactical regroup rather than abandonment.

Dawn at the compound. Kate reflects on Thorne's diminishment. FBI arrives - Agent Chen arrests Thorne on espionage and murder conspiracy charges AND confirms simultaneous warrant executed on Hale at DataCorp. Both architects in custody.

Kate holds Thorne while evidence goes public worldwide. She understands his deepest fear is irrelevance, not prison. Thorne attempts manipulation through family threats and philosophical arguments about exposure being temporary, but Kate counters with the permanence of documented truth.

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.

Three days after the recording, the team discovers Thorne is purging all evidence from his Olympic Peninsula compound. With the FBI warrant stalled by a corrupt judge and the news cycle fading, Kate decides on a final raid. The team prepares through the night and drives north into the dark forests.

Team gets Thorne recording at Pike Place Market, releases to public. Recording goes viral. But Lyle discovers Thorne is purging evidence from his compound using military-grade data destruction.

Becca delivers stolen intelligence to Washington Post. Team waits in San Juan Islands safe house. Malcolm and Kate share a vulnerable moment - he confesses what he said during the Houston fire, she admits she heard it. Both acknowledge their fears about intimacy and commit to being afraid together.

Team plans and executes heist against Panopticon Redmond data center. Kate/Malcolm create HVAC distraction while Lyle downloads transfer logs proving Hale-Thorne espionage pipeline. Escape with incomplete proof. Hale receives breach alert at 4AM and orders evidence destruction.

Five-company surveillance network discovered feeding into Panopticon server owned by Richard Thorne (RT). Becca researches Thornes influence: political kingmaker with self-sustaining surveillance business model. Family interviews create explosive story that trends then fades.