Status Updates From The Devil's Hand

Military cordons off Richardson, TX - no one in or out

Reece & Katie are run off the road by two carloads of folks

Prez is briefed on containment & eradication plans in the Basement of WH - moves to address the nation that morning from Oval Office instead

Texas hospital getting inundated with sick people

CISA calls a doc who studied hemorrhagic virus in Angola to report to CDC immediately

Ali witnessed Reece taking out Sohrab at the motel in Atlanta as he was about to meet with Sohrab to give him the virus weapon - he recognizes Reece’s vehicle from Chicago too - he carefully heads for Alabama after dumping the virus weapon in a trash a with a timer

He took photos and uploaded them to Iranian intelligence who recognizes Reece and activates a sleeper cell in US to go kill Reece

Reece kills another conspirator in a motel room in Atlanta - guy grew up in Las Vegas and helped train the hijackers on box cutters & CQB now had helped Mosques with security

Reece goes to Chicago planning to kill a 9/11 conspirator but Ali beat him to it - they were going to use Kareem Talib again to disperse the virus but he backed out so Ali poisoned his tea and he died of heart attack while Reece was doing surveillance

Masada agents have been following Reece - they call in the situation to Sawyer who calls Senator Thwaite and tells him to find out about who Kareem was

Senator Thwaite is jealous of the President, who he lost the election to previously - he engages Erik Sawyer because he wants to dig up dirt on Prez - knows he met with James Reece at Camp David and wants to know why Prez is meeting with an assassin so he can use any hint of scandal against him

Qassem meets Ali at a soccer game at Gillette Stadium and acts like he’s passing him some had sanitizer - it is one of the deadliest toxins ever developed

Iranian spy Qassem triggered 9/11 hijackers in Maine - he is housed in Pakistan embassy since no Iran embassy since 1979

now he knows of a “contingency” plan the US has with localized nuclear bombers within the US ready to contain any massive outbreak internally before it can spread - Qassem intends to turn the US against itself from inside using a pathogen he will pass along to a contact