Sleepover

## Synopsis:

As a rogue assassin hunts Elena Federova, Sergey Vodianov, and Owen Turnergrapple with a threat that can unravel their whole plan.

## Summary

The show opens with a man, The Ghost, moving through a forest. He looks out over Fort Totten.

Elena Federova and Val Turner are discussing the murder of Isaac Bigby while the man activates an EMP outside of the Fort which cuts the power. Fort Totten is left with only emergency lighting as the Ghost arms himself with an array of knives and makes his way into the Fort.

Val asks Elena what she did as the door unlocks. All communication devices are offline and the SWAT team in the compound go to check on the generators to hopefully restore power to the building. Val and Rogelio Réal make a plan for Rogelio to go to the storage locker where their weapons are being kept and he instructs her to keep her eye on Elena.

In Peekskill Prison, an alarm is going off. Owen Turner is sitting in his cell and a guard unlocks it so he and his cellmate can evacuate to the cafeteria, the furthest place from the fire.

A SWAT member finds someone in the generator room and tries to take them down but is killed.

Back inside, Val handcuffs one of Elena's hands to the table. Elena insists that she has never lied and that she has nothing to do with this. Elena suggests that this is like a sleepover and asks Val if this is what they're like since she never had one before. Val figures out that the man coming after Elena must be the man in the photo that they have yet to identify. Elena tells her that this is what people do at sleepovers. She tells Val that the person is called "The Ghost." Val admits that she's heard of him and that she had always thought that he was a myth.

Elena tells Val that she needs to change and Val uncuffs her. She finds Rogelio struggling to open the gun lockers but they are electronically locked. She tells him that an EMP knocked out the power. They discuss "The Ghost" and Val finds out that The Ghost went rogue after killing two Marines. Concerned that Louie and Rona are able to escape with the power knocked out, Rogelio goes to check on them.

They figure out that the locks disengage when the light flickers on just as Rogelio comes to check on them, armed with a crowbar.

Anthony Flowers speaks to an FBI agent about a message they intercepted.

> The little potato covers ground on every part
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He asks the agent to decode it. He calls Val to see if she has any ideas but her phone goes straight to voicemail. Fort Totten can't be reached either so Anthony tries to get in touch with Jonathan Doak only to find that he has an appointment and to not disturb him on any account.

Val asks Elena about The Ghost and finds out his name is Lucas Crowe and that he works for the CIA in the Special Activities Division. She tells Val that Crowe was the one responsible for bombing her wedding. She had set up something for dealing with him today but he figured out her plan and came to kill her first.

Elena asks what Val thought of her when they first met and Val tells her that it's not a sleepover. Val tells Elena that she must not have had many friends before. Elena tells her about Natalia.

In Rio De Janeiro in 2018, Elena is in a garden rocking her baby, trying to get her to sleep. When she is unsuccessful, she cries on a bench. A woman approaches her to ask if she needs help and she swaddles the baby so she stops crying. Elena explains that Sergey Vodianov is away on business and she is on her own. Natalia helps Elena bring her baby home.

Back in Fort Totten, Louie and Rona are trying to open their cells. Louie succeeds and looks for anything out of the ordinary. The Ghost comes out of seemingly nowhere and fights Louie. When Rona gets her cell open, he disappears and Louie is left on the floor with a stab wound in his chest.

In prison, Sergey and Owen meet in the cafeteria with the rest of the prisoners. Sergey suggests that his old friend made friends with an arsonist and now there's a fire. The two of them stand against a wall, waiting for things to play out.

Rogelio finds Rona and Louie and brings them to Elena's cell. They find out that all the other guards are dead and Rogelio leaves Louie on the floor to get medical supplies. Rona tells Elena that she doesn't trust the Director to help Louie, saying that he wouldn't care if Louie died. Val tells them that they are the FBI's responsibility and neither she nor Rogelio will let them die. She tells them that the Director was a corpsman in the Marines and is going to be the only one who can help them.

Louie tells Val that it seemed as though the Ghost came out of nowhere and Rona tells her that Louie managed to wound him. Val says it doesn't matter where he went because this is the safest room in the building and there is only one entrance. Rogelio returns with medical supplies and gets to work helping Louie. Elena insists that they need weapons but Val tells her everything is behind electronic locks.

Rogelio says that there's a storage locker in the basement that might have supplies. He tells Val to take someone with her and Rona refuses to leave. Elena tells Val that she trusts her with her safety and points out that it's in both their best interests to keep her alive. Val unlocks the cuff attached to the table and snaps it onto her own wrist, cuffing herself to Elena. Elena remarks that friendship bracelets are another sleepover tradition.

Anthony is driving towards Fort Totten and continuously calls Val. He gets a call from the same FBI agent who is decoding the phrase who informs him that there is a power outage over the entire area around Fort Totten. She also mentions that there's nothing she could find about a "little potato" in English or any slavic languages.

Jonathan Doak hangs up the phonecall and is having drinks with the Chief of Staff, Swanstron. She tells him that they're very similar--the power behind a different leader. She asks him about the Beloks and he says they are a shadowy operation in Ukraine. Swanstron also says that the White House is very impressed with him and that they're hoping to make him their point person, offering him the position above Rogelio.

Anthony makes it to Fort Totten to find the whole place dark and abandoned. He finds a dead FBI agent in the generator room and continues to search the area for clues. He finds a vent that he figures must be an entry point.

In the basement, Elena and Val are going through the old storage locker. Val locates a dagger and an old gun. Elena says that the old gun will misfire if she tries to use it, citing that the age makes it far too dangerous to use. Val tells her that she's trained in weaponry and Elena reminds her that she is an expert since it's her job. Val then asks how Natalia put up with her. They also find an old mine that Elena says that they can use.

Val locates blueprints for the Fort and Elena says that Rona has a picture of it on her phone so it's nothing she hasn't seen before. Val asks if it's tiring to be one step ahead all the time . Val locates a second set of blueprints but, this time, it's the original blueprints for the Fort. She puts the original blueprints over the new one and finds sealed passageways in the walls which is how he managed to remain undetected. She finds that there is a vent directly above the Assembly Room, the supposed safest place in the building where Rogelio, Louie, and Rona are currently.

They go to leave but stop when they hear someone moving in the vents above them before heading back to the others.

In 2018, Elena opens the door for Natalia. Elena tells Natalia to go ahead and pick up the baby because she doesn't know how to do it. Natalia hands the baby to her and reassures her that not everyone has the immediate connection with their baby and tells Elena that she isn't a bad mother because of it. it will just take time.

Elena gives Natalia a ring, one of the last things that she has of her mother. She tells Natalia that she wants to thank her for everything she did for her these past few weeks and that she wouldn't have made it without her. Her phone rings and she hands Natalia the baby. Sergey tells her that he'll be home soon and she tells him that Natalia is here and she always makes her feel better. He tells her to call back after she leaves.

In Fort Totten, Rogelio is trying to keep Louie alive. Val and Elena return with the blueprints and the information. Elena suggests that they use the mine to create a trap for the Ghost since they know where he's going to be. Louie says that the mine has an upward trajectory that moves in a cone. Elena and Val lift a plate in the floor and they dig a hole in the dirt to hide the mine under the floor.

Elena tells Val that what she wants is simple: she wants to take her daughter to the park to spend so much time in the sun she can count her freckles and then go home. Val realizes that it's a quote from Pretty Woman and Elena tells her that her mother-in-law had a Russian dub of the movie and Elena had to learn English in order to appreciate the movie properly. Elena pulls the pin to arm the mine and they replace the floor panel. They hear movement above them and move away in order to avoid the blast. Val turns around when Anthony falls onto the panel and tells him not to move.

In 2018, Sergey comes home to find Natalia sitting at his table. She tells him that Elena is in the room with Sofiya, putting her to bed. Natalia offers tea and they both aim guns at each other under the table. She tells him that she has men ready to shoot them if she doesn't leave and Sergey says he does as well. Elena comes out of the bedroom with her own gun and that there will be no bullets fired in her house while the baby is asleep. Natalia tells her that people work for her, not the other way around.

Elena accuses her of waiting for Sergey to come home so she could have the three of them together to kill them all at once. Natalia says it's a pity because she enjoyed the time she spent with Elena. As soon as she leaves, Sergey and Elena have to leave.

The Ferret tells the other prisoners that he smells smoke and the prisoners start to get restless, thinking they're all about to die in a fire. When the guards are distracted, the Ferret goes after Sergey with a shank. Owen crosses the room and yanks him off of Sergey and fights him. He kicks him over and he falls into the edge of a table and dies.

Elena and Val open the floor panel in front of the mine and Rona helps them delay the explosion by tampering with the firing mechanism. Louie needs a defibrillator and Rona leaves to help him get Louie to it. The Ghost appears and Elena has her foot on the panel. He drops from the ceiling and pulls his gun on Val as she points the old gun at him.

Rogelio and Rona and Anthony get Louie on the table and try to keep him awake but there isn't enough power to make it work.

The Ghost asks Val why she would protect Elena and he asks her if she's sure that he isn't here on the highest of authorities. Elena takes her foot off the panel and dives behind the table with Val. The mine doesn't go off and he takes the gun from Val. The explosion goes off and Val fights him. He draws his knife and Elena joins, helping Val take him down. Elena wraps the handcuffs around his neck and Val grabs the other end. They break the man's neck and he falls to the floor, dead.

The power comes back on and FBI swarms the place. Val tells them to be go easy on Elena because she helped keep them all safe. Elena is handcuffed and taken away.

Anthony tells Val about the little potato and she tells him that Elena's mother was Brazilian so he should run it in Portuguese. Doak comes to the scene and blames everything on Elena being at the prison. Rogelio tells him that he wants a full account of his whereabouts since he was unreachable.

Back in the Fort, Val looks from the observation deck to where Elena is handcuffed and sitting on her bed. Anthony hands her the translation of the poem he tracked down. She tells him that it must mean Elena's daughter and they find out that she's in upstate New York. Val looks back at Elena.

Sergey is sitting in front of Owen, who is handcuffed on the ground. He tells Sergey that he will have to be in Solitary while an investigation is conducted. The warden orders Sergey, who he refers to as Collins, back to his cell before calling Natalia who he calls Lady Belok. Natalia is seen wearing the ring that Elena gave her as she hangs up the phone.