Kara speeds Logan away from the black site, revealing she was stung by a drone “bee,” suffered a fever, and then noticed accelerated cognition, perception, and combat ability. Both infer they were chosen because they’re Ramsays and that Miriam is alive, aiming to unleash a human-wide upgrade.

They hole up in a West Virginia motel, mindful of pervasive surveillance. Logan orders dermal fillers and, fighting the urge to contact his family, discovers he can compartmentalize emotion. Kara describes her enhanced time-dilation in fights and recounts past trauma, strengthening their bond and resolve.

Using Romero’s credentials behind a VPN, Logan pulls his GPA file. He focuses on genomic edits at safe harbors, noting massive CCR5 insertions and a tiny 156-base insertion at AAVS1 present in every cell. Suspecting a hidden message, he and Kara consider how to encode information in DNA.

After frequency analysis, Logan spots that A and T never repeat, hypothesizing they signal type (number vs. letter) while C and G form values. Decoding yields: 36POINT5625NORTH106POINT217777WEST. Mapping places the coordinates in Carson National Forest, north-northwest of Santa Fe. They decide to go investigate despite seeing only trees in satellite view.

To evade facial recognition, Logan dyes his hair and beard and self-injects dermal fillers to alter facial geometry, then prepares to help Kara change her face as they get ready to head for New Mexico.