When a major Las Vegas player is found dead, Ecklie orders both teams to investigate the case. The man who had secrets on everyone in Vegas had a very big one of his own.
The team searches for a serial bomber whose latest pipe bomb maimed the wrong target and whose three previous bombings -- in 1999, 2001 and 2003 -- collectively blinded a man and killed two others.
Blaming himself for the tragedies that occurred on the Fourth of July, Darwyn embarks on a suicide mission: he travels to Yemen to find and confront Farik, using his former cell leader's wife as bait.
The future of Darwyn's cell is altered when he urges the FBI to intercept a shipment of nuclear material arriving at the Port of Los Angeles - sent by none other than Farik; Ilija faces his past when he arrives home in Sarajevo.
One of Russell's fellow workers has been shot and killed by Underlay, and Russell questions the mysterious circumstances surrounding the shooting death.
