Nick's team will staff a high-tech command center and monitor Y2K problems around the world as the millennial countdown ends. Nick and his team stand by as New Year's Day dawns in the Marshall Islands, the first time zone to see the year 2000. The navigational computer on an F-18 fighter plane fails, and the jet crashes at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Kwajalein.
Reports trickle in of power failures in China and Asia.
Cromwell orders all planes grounded. D.C. Kelly, meanwhile, is sneaking out of the hospital where her mom works. And as midnight strikes in New York City's Times Square, the ball drops, the lights go out, and the crowd gets ugly. And the news comes that a nuclear reactor in Sweden has gone supercritical, killing everyone. It has the same design as one in Emerald Canyon in Washington state, next to Seattle, where Nick's wife is now frantically trying to find Kelly.