Dana Daněk sits alone in her Dejvice apartment watching news coverage of the Folimanka explosion, which the U.S. military publicly blames on a common construction practice involving stored natural gas used to cure concrete. Although experts say the technique is routine, commentators begin questioning the official story as the military seals the site and prepares a major cleanup.

Sergeant Scott Kerble arrives at Dana’s door on Ambassador Heide Nagel’s behalf, offering condolences for the death of Attaché Michael Harris and stating Nagel’s arrest was a “misunderstanding” and has been reversed. Kerble then asks Dana to return to the embassy to help with PR, but Dana—shaken by the day’s violence and chaos—pushes back and refuses to be pressured.

As Dana tries to end the visit, Kerble pivots to a new request: he asks to check Dana’s cardboard box of office belongings for a diplomatic pouch he claims was misplaced. Dana searches and finds a sealed diplomatic pouch addressed to Ambassador Nagel, with a sticky note reading, “D— Tell no one about this. Someone will contact you.” Dana confronts Kerble, and Kerble admits he put the pouch in her box and now needs it back.

At the U.S. embassy, Nagel sits alone drinking and reflects on a fragile détente she has reached with the director, while refusing to surrender her leverage—she still has the USB containing Gessner’s confession video. Expecting Kerble to return from retrieving it, Nagel instead is interrupted by a newer Marine guard who says there is a “diplomatic matter” at the front door.

The guard hands Nagel a slip of paper with a name written in Cyrillic: “САША ВЕСНА.” He explains that a Russian woman at the entrance asked to speak to Michael Harris and said Nagel would recognize her name—“Sasha Vesna.”