Colonel Briggs calls General Rivers and tells him they have found Leilana Kane, the woman Sergeant Mahoe met with at the bar. Leilana is on the run, avoiding the soldiers looking for her. She spent the night at her grandparents’ macadamia farm before sleeping on the beach. When she is recognized at the dock, she evades the soldiers and returns to the farm. She finds the trees and other vegetation blackened. Her grandparents are dead inside.

At the Military Reserve, General Rivers gets news from Briggs and then tells the group he wants to try to get the canisters out of the Ice Tube. Mac does not believe it is possible.

Mac and Rivers pull up to the Ice Tube where hazmat teams are beginning to assemble. Just then, Mauna Loa erupts, and they have to retreat. When Mac and Rivers return to the base, they learn Brett and the Cutlers have gone up in a helicopter to film the eruption.