As the fortified garage door seals shut and sirens wail, Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon scramble for cover inside a parked sedan, hoping the distance from Threshold will spare them. Langdon honks futilely for help, then both dive into the car and brace.

The blast hits with a brutal pressure shift and a guttural roar. The sedan’s windows explode as a frigid, hurricane-force wind tears through the garage, snuffing out all light and flipping the car. The vehicle tumbles violently until it slams into something immovable and stops, throwing Langdon onto Katherine in the inverted cabin.

In total darkness and biting cold, Langdon checks for injuries, hears Katherine answer weakly, and carefully rolls off her. He crawls through a larger broken opening, finds the garage floor slick with frost, and guides Katherine out by hand. Shaken, Katherine realizes she has lost her bag and binder, but Langdon insists survival matters more.

Langdon assumes Finch is likely dead and feels guilt for the clay-masked “golem” who saved them, recalling the intruder’s claim to be Sasha Vesna’s protector. Determined to repay the debt, Langdon resolves that if they escape, he and Katherine will find and help Sasha. Katherine then spots a faint sliver of daylight through settling dust, suggesting an exit or breach.

The scene shifts to Ambassador Heide Nagel, who is on a call with CIA Director Judd after being uncuffed and left alone. Judd frames Nagel’s situation as “protective custody,” blames Finch for overstepping, denies In-Q-Tel’s involvement in Threshold, and argues Threshold was necessary in an intelligence “arms race” despite the damning revelation of kidnapped Russian psychiatric patients and a likely death. A Marine interrupts with an emergency report: Sergeant Kerble says a massive underground explosion has occurred in Folimanka Park.