Recap - 'The Event': 'Face Off'

After confronting Vice-President Jarvis, Sean and Vicky flee the Ambassador Hotel. Vicky tells Sean that she is done helping him, but he insists that they both travel to France to track down Dempsey. From the White House briefing room, President Martinez calls Sophia and orders her to surrender peacefully within ten minutes. As the sleepers are armed, Sophia suggests using the portal array to help them escape, but Thomas explains that Gerard is in charge of the device and that he is still waiting on his call. Leila reveals herself to Michael, while the sleepers prepare for battle.

Gerard finally contacts Sophia and explains that he does not have enough fuel ready to transport the 188 sleepers. When one of the sleepers opens fire on a military recon team, Martinez decides to ignore Sophia's objections and gives the order to launch an assault. With her hand forced, Sophia orders Gerard to use the portal array to destroy the Washington Monument. In the aftermath of the attack, Sophia calls Martinez again and warns him that if he does not provide three buses and give the sleepers safe passage to a jet at LAX, she will destroy Washington.

On a plane to France, Sean allows Vicky to briefly speak with her mother via web-cam and they learn of the Monument's destruction. Sean also learns from his research that Dempsey owns a corporation named the Phoenix Foundation that is funding a dig in the Jura Mountains. Dempsey arrives at the mountain range and meets with an architect who has uncovered a number of ancient limestone amphoras in a hidden "chamber". Dempsey is furious when he learns the architect has entered the chamber against his orders and shoots him dead.

Back at the church, Thomas tells a shaken Sophia that she was right to strike back, but she insists that he is responsible for the escalation in violence. They reconcile over the strain of leadership, while an unhappy Isobel watches. As Martinez tells Armbruster to provide the sleepers with safe passage, Sterling secretly reveals to the President that he recalls meeting Thomas before, at the hospital where Simon was recovering. Since Thomas was dressed as a lab tech, they suspect that he switched Simon's sample for human blood. Convinced that Simon won't talk in time, they decide to try and break the code on a series of encrypted calls he has been making.

At that moment, Simon speaks with Sophia, admonishing her for the attack on the Monument. Sophia reveals that the last of their prepared fuel was used in the attack and that her threat to Martinez was a bluff. Martinez and Sterling digitally capture the call and begin the process of decryption. In La Cluse-et-Mijoux, Sean and Vicky meet with one of her old contacts, Henri. As Henri and Vicky reminisce about a former mission, she reveals that she used to be a CIA agent. Henri confides in Sean, revealing that Vicky got "burned" to cover up one of her superior's mistakes. Sean admits that he is blackmailing Vicky to secure her help, but Henri insists that Vicky must have another reason.

At the church, Leila angrily confronts Michael about the destruction of the Monument, but he tells her that humans are the enemy and that she must accept her place among the sleepers. Meanwhile, Dempsey and an accomplice enter a series of ancient caves in the Juma Mountains. Dempsey discovers cave paintings of "guardian angels" and notices a triangle symbol on the cave wall, which is also tattooed onto his arm.

Sophia addresses the sleepers, placing Michael, Thomas and another sleeper named David in charge of the three buses that have arrived to escort them to LAX. Isobel scolds Thomas for allowing Sophia to take charge, but he insists that he now wants to do what is right for his people. As the sleepers, including Leila, board the buses, Martinez and Sterling finally decrypt Simon's call and learn that Sophia's threats were a bluff.

Ignoring Sterling's objections, Martinez orders an all-out assault on the sleepers and an Apache helicopter destroys the bus led by David with a missile. Thomas contacts Gerard, but he only has enough fuel ready to transport one bus. Determined to demonstrate true leadership and do what is best for his people, Thomas tells Gerard to lock onto the bus containing Sophia, and sacrifices himself. As Sophia's bus is teleported away, the helicopter launches another missile, killing Thomas and Isobel.

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