US Air Date: 11/04/2007

Writer: Robbie Thomson

Director: Sanford Bookstaver

Hawkins is fi nally confronted about his real identity. After Jimmy hears the radio broadcast he reveals his fears about Hawkins to Jake. They force their way into Hawkins’ house and discover a range of fake IDs. When Hawkins returns Jake captures him at gunpoint. With no choice Hawkins tells his life story, answering via fl ashback many of the questions about who he is, who he works for and who is behind the nuclear attack. He tells Jake that he is a member of a CIA team put together after a shipment of 25 Russian nuclear warheads was stolen. He claims the warheads were adapted into nuclear bombs by extremists whose only shared aim was overthrowing the US government. He says he was persuaded out of retirement and left his family to work undercover, in what appear to be off the books operations, going into prisons to infi ltrate the group. He succeeds by showing he can provide fake IDs and is forced to murder a man who he believes is an informant, giving him further credibility but leaving him in a moral quandary.
He is then shown reporting back to the CIA that he believes he is close enough to the truth that he could secure half of the missing bombs. However, it then emerges that Sarah Mason was working with him on the case and that she argued no action should be taken until they can secure all of the warheads. But the terrorists discover they’ve been infi ltrated and bring forward their plans for attack. Hawkins says that he could contact the CIA with the licence plates of some of the vehicles carrying bombs and it is this, he claims, that saved NYC. Jake is convinced of the story’s truth when Hawkins shows him a Department Of Defense map. It shows that Jericho was the meeting point for his task force if they did not prevent the attacks because the town had the ideal conditions for survival. Jake is fi nally convinced of the truth when Hawkins shows him the bomb that had been intended to destroy Columbus, which he has buried. Hawkins realises that the head of his CIA team, Thomas Valente, is the man who tried to buy the bomb from him in previous episode. He is shown with Sarah suggesting both that she was in on the attack and that the bombs were the acts of double agents.