Colonel Porter returns to the 2nd Mass with orders that the resistance begin preparations to take the fight to the Skitters. Weaver orders Tom to scout out the Skitter structure and determine how best to destroy it. At the last moment, Weaver takes the place of one of the scouts and leads the group himself. Meanwhile, Pope is placed in charge of developing the explosives required to destroy the structure and Anne performs an autopsy on a the dead Skitter and makes a discovery that suggests that the Skitters were transformed from harnessed beings. While scouting the Skitter structure, Tom, Hal and Weaver discover a new alien that appear to be the leaders of the Skitters. While returning to base, they meet a strange woman that invites them into her home. Tom and Hal take up the offer while Weaver guards their motorbikes. While inside, Weaver takes off, having removed the sparkplugs on Tom and Hal's bikes. They eventually track him down to his old house where Tom finds him drinking whiskey in the backyard. Weaver explains that he had separated with his wife before the invasion and couldn't find her when the attack started. He found his younger daughter who had been harnessed and inadvertantly kills her removing it. They are interrupted when a Skitter mech shows up forcing Hal to hide and Tom and Weaver to work together to destroy it. Realising that the only person that knew where they were was the strange woman they met earlier, they return to her apartment and discover she is an agent of the Skitters who use her to capture people. While questioning her, a harnessed child turns up at the door inquiring whether anymore people have been there. The child turns out to be Karen, Hal's girlfriend but before he can do anything, Tom looks through the peep hole and comes face to face with one of the new aliens they discovered earlier. They return to the school with this news and find Pope holding a demonstration of the new bullet he made out of mech metal. He demonstrates that just one of these bullets can cause serious damage to a mech. Ricky observes this demonstration and takes off, followed by Ben.
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