S01 · E16

First Contact

The first proxy collision between Elias and Iris. A mission overlap - both factions independently targeting a weaving intelligence cache in East London. Neither knows the other will be there. They come face to face on a rooftop and the episode holds on them for a long, still moment before either moves. The fight that follows isn't a fight - it's two people trying to resolve an impossible situation through the only framework they currently have. Neither commits fully. It ends when support units converge and both extract. Separately afterward, both process the encounter in silence. The third thread follows Liam watching a news broadcast about a government energy policy protest. He watches without expression. Then picks up his phone and makes a call.