Jonathan Doors (David Hemblen) and his Presidential Campaign manager and son Joshua (William De Vry) held a press conference under the watchful eye of Major Liam Kincaid Robert Leeshock) and Secret Service Agent Hannigan (Dan Lett). Liam noticed a strange tall man (Michael Dyson) who was pretending to video record Doors' speech while he cased the room. When Liam confronted him, the man bolted from the building and ran to the Flat Planet Cafe. Augur (Richard Chevolleau) and his patrons hit the floor as Liam and the man exchanged gunfire, which ended when the man turned his Taelon weapon on himself and was completely vaporized.

Liam took the man's videotape to Augur's where they examined it with Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard) and Julia (Janet Kidder). They realize the man was stalking Doors for some time, and when they reviewed the security footage from the Flat Planet Cafe, they discovered the man had a Taelon warrior implant. The Resistance members wanted to expose Zo'or (Anita La Selva) with the video evidence, but Liam cautioned his team to lay low until after the Presidential elections.

On board the Taelon mothership, Da'an (Leni Parker) informed Zo'or that the Taelon Synod would meet to assess his leadership. Liam went to Doors in his campaign headquarters to warn him that the Resistance suspected Zo'or was plotting against him. While Doors took the threat lightly, his son Joshua was concerned and told Liam he would increase his father's security. Liam proceeded to the mothership where Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) warned him to maintain his allegiance to the Taelons, whoever becomes President. Liam did some legwork on board the ship, then returned to Augur's to tell his Resistance members a secret shuttle was sent down to Earth at the time the warrior implant was snooping around Door's campaign. Julia told Liam she had uncovered a link between the implant and an underground arms dealer named Margolis (Carlo Rota), and Liam sent Augur with her to find out who was buying Taelon weapons.

When Julia and Augur questioned Margolis, he confirmed he made a deal with a warrior implant, and offered to trade the weapons specs for tactical information from the Resistance. Suddenly one of the bio-engineered warriors burst into the hideout, and vaporized Margolis with a blast from a Taelon weapon. Julia and Augur fled the building, but the warrior caught up to them in an alleyway and attacked them. They tried to fend him off but the implant was impervious to grenades and even fire, and they were only able to escape him by racing off in their car.

Once safe at Augur's place, they examined Margolis' specs on a computer disk and discovered the implant warriors were arming themselves with weapons undetectable by security scans, such as those used at appearances by the presidential candidates. Liam suspected the Resistance was being set up by a plot against Doors and was reluctant to put their members in danger at the next public debate. Julia was incensed by Liam's hesitance, and left to find Joshua behind Liam's back to offer her unit's protection at the upcoming candidate's debate.

On the day of the debate, Lili, Liam and Sandoval accompanied Zo'or and Da'an to the convention center, where Julia had also arrived with her team. Thompson and Doors took to the stage and embarked on a heated debate about the Taelon occupation and Resistance movement. Liam saw Julia, and confronted her, furious to find her armed. But it was impossible to remove her unit without attracting attention, so he left to scope out the building. At the back of the convention center, Liam encountered a group of three men working on what appeared to be a video camera. When Liam demanded the men identify themselves, he realized they were bio-warriors and started a vicious fight with them. As Liam struggled, one of the men ran from the room. It was only after he disabled his opponents' implants that Liam could pursue the potential assassin. But when Julia and her team responded to his alert, she discovers they had indeed been set up, and they were arrested by the secret service. During this commotion, a real assassin, took aim from a catwalk above the stage, and hit President Thompson directly in the chest. Sandoval aimed his skrill in response, and obliterated the assassin.

The Resistance reconnoitered at Augur's, and monitored reports of Thompson's recovery and huge lead in the polls. They heard false information about Resistance links to the assassination attempt, and that Julia and her team were being held on conspiracy to commit murder. But there was even more grim news to come: Joshua Doors appeared on television to announce that his father was behind the conspiracy to assassinate Thompson and that the secret service had issued a warrant for Doors' arrest.

Liam headed out to find Doors, while on board the Taelon mothership, Zo'or and Da'an faced off once more, but this time Zo'or clearly held the upper hand. He threatened Da'an directly, and announced that the time had come to redefine the Taelons' relationship with humans. Lili tipped off the Resistance that hundreds of Volunteers were flying down to Earth, and warned as many cells to go into hiding as possible. In the midst of the panic, the election results came in and Thompson had been re-elected President, playing right into Taelon hands. Before he went back into hiding, Doors confronted Joshua, and discovered Joshua willingly set him up.

As Doors fled his campaign headquarters, he ran into Liam, who spirited him away from danger. The next day Thompson gave a press conference where he declared a national emergency and imposed martial law throughout the United States until the Resistance was crushed.

Taelon battle cruisers filled the sky, and civilian round-ups ensued, but Lili heard even worse news from Sandoval: Zo'or was arresting Da'an for conspiracy and treason. Lili contacted Liam, who had gone into hiding with Doors and Augur, and told him she wanted to overload the power supply to the mothership, which would kill all the Taelons, and everyone else, on board. While Liam and Doors argued over her suggestion, Lili lost contact with them when Volunteers stormed their safe house. Lili faced her decision alone, her finger moving to push the override button that would seal all their fates.

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