Episode 5

**Episode 5** is the fifth episode of Season One of Netflix's The Pentaverate series.

## Synopsis

After Patty's smarts prove invaluable, the Pentaverate races to the Meadows to stop a diabolical plan, while Ken and Reilly are taken hostage on a jet.

## Plot

Bruce and Skip take Ken and Reilly and fly towards the Maedows. At the Pentaverate HQ, Patty informs the Pentaverate that a jet with Bruce, Skip and prisoner Ken, flew towards the Meadows about sixty minutes ago. As their communication is cut and the guests already arriving, they can't cancel the Meadows. Lord Lordington wonders if they got their keys and Patty conforms it, along with the spare key, making Lordington comment that with three keys they can vote for anything. Mishu suggests to enact the Demetrius Protocols and Lordington states they should vote. However, as he turns, he sees the Da Vinci lock is missing. Patty explains she send him a memo that Bruce made her send it to the Meadows ahead of schedule. With the Musk, they may be able to reach the Meadows before Bruce, but MENTOR states Bruce set a malware in his motherboard to lock the wheels and someone needs to manually override it. Lordington asks Patty for advice and she suggest increasing MENTOR's temperature which will cause a temporary reset, which would be enough time to override Bruce's malware. She tells Mishu to try restore communication with Dubrovnik Central and sends Shep to the control room.

On the jet, Bruce decides to tell his story. By the age of 40, he had built a media empire, the Tabloid Group. They told the people what to buy and who to vote for, and he created disinformation. Bruce was then forced into the Pentaverate. Bruce and Cononel Sanders worked together and managed to stop the Millennium Bug. As the internet arrive, he tried to warn the Pentaverate that the bad guys will use the internet the same way he used the tabloids. Jason joined in 2014 and created MENTOR, making Bruce think they will beat the internet by having a universal set of agreed-upon facts. But instead they got internet clickbait conspiracy theories and other opiates for the idiot masses. People were too addicted to their phone and didn't check facts. Bruce then decided they don't deserve MENTOR. Ken wonders what Bruce will do with MENTOR and Bruce explains that he will either make trillions by auctioning it off at the Meadows or create own version of truth. Skip adds that with MENTOR you can make it so that you won the election, that you didn't lead a massacre on your people and more.

At Pentaverate HQ, Patty and Lordington enter MENTOR's mainframe. They find a video message from Jason, who guesses that if they are watching it, it means someone tried to dismantle MENTOR. He tells them that its important that they don't overheat him for more than 30 seconds as that can cause complete meltdown and all the knowledge will be lost. Back at the jet, Bruce shares that he put Donette poison into Jason's bong. He tried to convince them to replace him with Skip, who explains that he met with Bruce many years ago, when he stayed at one of his casinos. However, as the Pentaverate chose Hobart, he poisoned him with a beer. As the Maester got close, he then killed him and his men. He then brought in Skip and the Red Robes, so he only needed the spare key to have ultimate control with three votes, but Ken went and touched it. Ken states he won't cooperate in helping him destroy the world. Reilly states he won't get away, but Bruce tells her he is already dead and after he gets plastic surgery, he will enjoy his life on some beach. Bruce then offers them a drink and as Ken and Reilly accept, he tells them they have been drugged.

Patty had read that if they remove the transducers, they will overheat MENTOR. As they do it, they are then able to override the malware and free the wheels of the Musk. As the communications are still cut, Lordington and tells Patty that she should join them on the train and they all leave for the Meadows.

Bruce jet arrives in Switzerland. Ken and Reilly are being transported in a van. Ken shares that he wanted to get his show back, but he is just a local news guy and should have retired. He apologizes for getting Reilly involved. Reilly apologizes as well and reveals a Fimbra Manus tattoo. She explains she was sent to Toronto by the Pentaverate a year ago to take Ken to HQ.

## Characters

* Skip Cho
* Bruce Baldwin
* Ken Scarborough
* Reilly Clayton
* Maria Menounos
* Patty Davis
* Lord Lordington
* Shep Gordon
* Mishu Ivanov
* MENTOR
* Colonel Sanders
* Jason Eccleston
* Rex Smith