Two traitors are uncovered. One is the mole in the Palmer administration who is working with Stanton. The other is the member of the Warner family who helped Syed Ali to bring the bomb into the country.
Jack learns of Ali’s location and tries to rescue Kate.
Kim and Miguel hatch an escape plan to stay out of LA, but the results are disastrous.
The team arrives on an ice planet and intervenes in a fight between the Tlak’khan and the native Ursons. They win the day for the natives but begin to suspect all isn’t as it seems. Seattle follows a young Tlak’khan to a hidden city while Gus interrogates the prisoners who it turns out are farmer/refugees. The team realizes the Ursons are in the wrong and turn against them to help the Tlak’khan farmers.
The team returns to Earth with a piece of technology that allows them to see alien creatures everywhere, and must attempt to contain the problem when it spreads beyond the base.
George pits Bob against Reza in hopes of learning which one is working with Second Wave.
Sherry and Lynne clash over Palmer’s speech to the press.
Kate is interrogated by Syed Ali, who believes she knows too much about the bomb.
Jack and Nina fight off a group of renegade soldiers while waiting to be rescued from the crash site. They nearly escape when Nina takes Jack hostage and demands to speak to the President.
The team arrive on a planet where the natives bear a extremely strong resemblence to Draga. They are contemptous of „“rock crawlers““ but Draga is drawn to them. But when the Tlak’khan show up the local’s powers serve no good. The team helps them and gives them a measure of understanding of other cultures.
The team is called into battle unexpectedly when the Asgard homeworld is overrun by Replicators — which have evolved into a startling new form.
(from contributor Jared Prophet) The gang come through the Gate on the Great Wall of China…in a large museum. After exploring, and listening to Gus Bonner’s „“boring““ speeches about history, the group runs afool of both Julius Cesar’s and Napoleon’s robot armies.
Gus and Seattle go into an alien VR system where the real society has deteriorated due to its preoccupation with the virtual one.
After a flashback to Zoe’s and Mal’s days in the wars six years previous, we cut to the modern day where the Serenity crew is running a salvage operation on a deserted ship and are forced to flee with the cargo when the Alliance show up. Their buddy Badger refuses to buy the cargo so they head off to the rim worlds after picking up three passengers: Book, Simon, and Dobson. En route someone sends a signal to the Alliance and it turns out to be Dobson, an undercover Federal agent, who arrests Simon but is glad to take the whole crew in. He shoots Kaylee before being captured, and Simon forces Mal to flee in return for his doctoring services. When Mal investigates Simon’s cargo he finds a naked woman…
Kim and Miguel are arrested and the police plan to take them back to LA.
Tony questions Bob Warner at CTU and learns more about his government connections.
Palmer discovers a traitor in his ranks when the journalist whom he was holding is set free.
Nina pulls a deadly countermove, setting herself up as the main player in the search to locate the bomb.