Jeremiah walks to Millhaven, Kurdy takes Elizabeth to Clarefield, and Markus and Erin put the final touches to their planned meeting. Things go badly for all concerned.

The St Louis meeting is being set up in a former sports stadium.

Elizabeth tells Kurdy that the men were following the convoy, not Jeremiah, and tells him to warn Markus, but the radio buried under the Clarefield sign is broken.

Wily says that Valhalla Sector was originally built as a shelter for the "shadow government" in the event of a biological or chemical attack, once they realised that their existing sites - such as the Cheyenne Mountain facility, of course - were designed for nuclear attack and pretty useless again biological warfare. Three sites were build of which Valhalla Sector was the primary one for the most important people. Wily implies that despite starting outside the US (in New Delhi), the virus was deliberately developed by the US government. When the virus broke out, the government were too busy covering up the fact that they were responsible to adequately deal with it. A single scientist was responsible for the virus, and only he and a researcher truly understood how it worked. The latter wanted to put information in the public domain and was resisted. He did, however, successfully develop a vaccine, but refused to give it to his superiors, knowing that with both the virus and the vaccine they would possess the greatest biological weapon yet devised. Valhalla Sector have been working on their own vaccine in case the Big Death returns, but Wily says their vaccine is itself the successor to the Big Death; test subjects who took it developed a form of the virus. Hence Valhalla Sector sent out teams of burners to erase all traces of those infected. Wily also says that the researcher's vaccine doesn't work against the new disease.

Agents from Valhalla Sector get suspicious when both Jeremiah and Kurdy show up separately to see Wily, and raise the alarm.

The Theo-nerd's name from the last episode is Phil.

Ezekiel found the Brothers of the Apocalypse on his own, and says they are not aware of his links to Valhalla Sector.

Kurdy and Elizabeth admit they love each other just before Elizabeth dies.

"Wily" lives in Millhaven.

Markus, Erin, Jeremiah, and possibly Theo, are now prisoners of Valhalla Sector.

Elizabeth and very probably Ezekiel are killed in this episode.

Devon, Jeremiah's dad, is indeed still alive, and is currently involved in some capacity with Valhalla Sector.

Elizabeth, on Jeremiah and Kurdy: "I've always had this feeling that as long as the two of you were together you'd be safe."

Jeremiah: "Good job acting nuts, too-" Wily: "Don't touch that one! That's Shirley! She's special!" Jeremiah: "…when it's obvious you're totally completely sane."

Part of Markus' speech: "What we have learned most is that we cannot trust our future to those who can only see the past. Tonight, we stand together, united for the first time. In the coming days we will carve out the framework for a new country, and a new future. Because if we fail to do so, others will do it for us, and generations yet unborn will live to regret our failure."

Wily: "Guys like you and me, everybody above ground - we're expendable, Jeremiah. To these guys we're just lab rats."

Kurdy: "If you are not looking for an ass-whipping, I strongly suggest you move."

Best of all, for its sheer irony: "This is an illegal assembly. Stay where you are and you will not be harmed."

The episode opens with a recap of the previous one, with Luke Perry saying "Previously on Jeremiah".

Judging by the opening scene, it looks like Theo is still rewarding those loyal to her with cheerleaders.

Nathan is the leader of a group in St Louis. They have rebuilt the town, creating supply lines and small communities.

It looks like the poem Kurdy was writing at the start of the previous episode was for Elizabeth - he places it in her grave.

Jeremiah comes to the conclusion that the scientist who developed the virus was Ezekiel's biological father. This is because of what Ezekiel told him in "Tripwire" - "my father killed the world!". He also believes that his own father was the researcher who wanted information to be made public, hence taking off with a rifle, promising to be back in an hour and never returning. If true, it is also his father who developed the vaccine to the first Big Death and refused to give it to the military. It is also confirmed that Farralon ( "City of Roses") was working for Valhalla Sector, with Jimmy Holcomb ( "The Bag") as a "lab rat"; that the experiment in "The Touch" was indeed to discover if the disease's method of transmission had mutated, and that kids were taken and forced to take cocktails of drugs ( "Man of Iron, Woman Under Glass", and probably the girl in the last episode).

It's not hard to see symbolism in the destruction of the Rover. Truly Jeremiah was right last episode when he said "as of right now, everything changes. Everything."

Over the course of three episodes, the leader and four members of the advisory council have either left Thunder Mountain or stepped down from their post. Can the remaining members of the council manage a successful defence if Valhalla Sector should come knocking at the door? And will Meaghan starve to death now that the two people who know about her are unable to return to the Mountain?

Most of what Wily says is stuff Jeremiah could have pieced together himself, but how does he know the old vaccine isn't effective against the new mutation? Does he just assume it can't be or Valhalla Sector wouldn't have needed to torch whole towns?

Why do Valhalla Sector people hunt down those who try to talk to Wily, but not take out Wily himself? Perhaps because Wily attracts their natural enemies, some of whom may have information useful to Valhalla Sector, whom they can capture. This is, I suppose, pretty much what happens in this episode.

If Kurdy were thinking straight, he'd remember that the sister of a Thunder Mountain member lives in Clarefield, has working radio equipment and knows how to contact the Mountain. Unless, of course, she was allowed to join her brother at the Mountain (see the end of "Thieves' Honor" if you want to try to guess).

Why doesn't Alex Zahara (Ezekiel) ever get a credit at the start of an episode? Kim Hawthorne (Theo) gets one, and she hardly does more than say "fuck you!" (and give a little wiggle of delight when getting frisked).

Jeremiah says Farralon's enclave was near Seattle. This seems rather too far north given other information about it earlier in the season; particularly the comment in "City of Roses", that his lab is a "stone's throw" from where Kurdy grew up in Portland.

Additional - added March 4 2006: The incidental music stops very abruptly during the scene of Elizabeth's death - as the shot changes from Kurdy's closer up to a longer shot at the end of the scene.

It tries to pull off the same tricks as the last episode, but manages to top even that. It's hard to know what to praise most - the moving final scene between Kurdy and Elizabeth; the cinematic gunfight at the stadium; the cliff-hanger ending; Wily's manic, but disturbingly plausible, explanations; or the inventive camerawork. But one thing's for sure: episodes of TV drama rarely come much better than this.