By M. Giant
Apparently the squinty killer Alpha from last week has been a busy beaver, and Red Flag leaders are dropping off the grid. Perhaps these two facts are connected? The team tracks Squinty to his target, who turns out to be none other than Dr. Rosen's own estranged, apparently strung-out daughter, Danielle. And she's an Alpha. Surprise.
Rosen's got his hands full now. On one front, Danielle is taking him on the Guilt Grand Tour of his failings as a father and a husband, while not being particularly forthcoming about the significance of the necklace she stole that Squinty was trying to recover before Cameron killed him. On the other hand, Agent Sullivan is haranguing Rosen to figure out what Red Flag's big plans are for seven the morning, so that's pretty time-sensitive. Fortunately, one problem solves the other, as Rachel figures out that the necklace carries an encoded message, inviting Red Flag's senior management to a big meeting at an abandoned brick factory.
But I should tell you who's calling the meeting. While the above is going on, Bill has a wild hair up his has about "Stanton Parish," that clue he was given two weeks ago. With Gary's help, he learns that Stanton Parish was a scientist whose pro-Alpha manifesto laid the foundation for Red Flag before his death 30 years ago. Only Parish isn't dead. In fact, he's been alive since the Civil War, without having aged a day. And Rosen figures that this Alpha-Alpha is the one who called the meeting.
So the morning, as the team and Agent Sullivan and a small army of tactical agents are about to move in on said meeting, Rosen realizes that Parish, who hasn't shown, is using them to get rid of certain members of Red Flag who want to go public, including Gary's friend Anna. He tries to stop it, but is as effective as always, which is to say not at all. The raid goes off, and it's a bloodbath, with Cameron facing off against a fellow hyperkinetic, Bill fighting a dude with waffle irons for hands, and Gary discovering Anna's shot-up corpse and freaking the hell out, nearly getting himself killed along with all the other Alphas who get massacred in there.
While Rosen and the team are feeling shitty about being used to wipe out thirty-odd Alphas, and Rosen's trying to patch things up with his daughter, he gets a private visit from none other than Stanton Parish himself, grateful for Rosen's help in keeping Alphas under wraps for the time being. Rosen declines Parish's invitation to join him in whatever Parish has planned . Instead, he's heading to Washington DC to testify before a closed-door committee. And he uses the opportunity to broadcast (with Gary's help) an announcement to the entire country that Alphas exist. So that's a bit of a curveball. Even Parish is surprised, even though he was warned something like this might happen by his own personal expert on Lee Rosen: Danielle. The government yanks Rosen off the air, but given that there's a second season planned for year, his radio silence probably won't last forever.