Gone Before Goodbye

Maggie lands at Heathrow and spots Porkchop in the arrivals hall. She runs to him, and they embrace. Porkchop claims he was en route to Dubai with a London layover. Maggie tells him they need to go to Château Haut-Bailly in Bordeaux and discards Charles Lockwood’s bugged phone.

On the Heathrow Express, Maggie explains her theory: Trace stole the THUMPR7 and flew to a secret facility that Oleg built on an abandoned Bordeaux vineyard, not to America. She cites flight terminal discrepancies, satellite photos Sharon found showing underground construction, and Nadia’s tracker, which places Ivan Brovski in Bordeaux. Porkchop arranges their travel via Eurostar to Paris and then TGV to Bordeaux.

At the Bordeaux station, a large group of bikers greets Porkchop. His friends Élodie and Guillaume drive them to Château Smith Haut Lafitte, where Porkchop’s luggage has mysteriously already arrived. The vineyard owners, Florence and Daniel, visit and bring wine. Florence offers to lend Maggie clothes from her daughter after Porkchop claims the airline lost Maggie’s luggage.

Later, Porkchop tells Maggie that the abandoned vineyard where Ivan is located is heavily secured. He gives her the griefbot phone from Sharon. They discuss Marc’s secrets, with Porkchop defending Marc’s decision to protect Maggie by withholding information. When Maggie asks if Trace killed Marc, Porkchop avoids answering and tells her to rest.

That night, Maggie uses the griefbot app. AI Marc confirms that Trace chose their vacation spot when they visited Bordeaux years ago and that Marc knew about Ragoravich’s facility but kept it secret to protect her. When Maggie asks if Trace killed Marc, the app glitches. She rephrases her question, and the AI states the second most likely scenario for Marc’s death is Trace’s involvement. When she asks if Marc could be alive, the screen freezes.

The next morning, Guillaume and Élodie drive Maggie and Porkchop to the abandoned vineyard. Maggie stands before a security camera at the gate. Ivan Brovski appears and tells her to come alone. Three armed guards emerge as Porkchop stays behind.

Brovski leads Maggie through overgrown vines to a wine cellar, then down into a sterile underground medical facility. Masked personnel work in the laboratories. In a sealed room, she meets the real Oleg Ragoravich, sick and hooked to monitors. He confirms that the man Maggie operated on was his cousin and body double, Aleksander, who only figured out after the surgery that he was being set up to be killed. Oleg justifies Aleksander’s sacrifice, expounds on medical innovation, and admits that Trace performed organ harvesting operations for him.

Oleg denies killing Marc but reveals that his own heart is failing and demands that Maggie perform a transplant using the THUMPR7 and a donor heart, which he says is from a brain-dead man. When Maggie hesitates, he threatens to have Porkchop’s heart removed without anesthesia while she watches.

Back at the guesthouse, Porkchop says she has no choice. Maggie speculates that she was deliberately led there, possibly by Nadia. She tells Porkchop that she regrets leaving Marc in Dubai, but Porkchop says she would have died too. They agree Marc is gone forever.

Before surgery, Ivan Brovski warns Maggie that if Oleg dies, she dies. In the operating room, all staff wear full masks and goggles for anonymity. Despite the threat and circumstances, Maggie feels joy while operating. She removes Oleg’s diseased heart, creating an empty chest cavity.

A second surgeon, male and fully disguised, enters with the donor heart on an Organ Care System. Maggie and the male surgeon work in perfect tandem, installing the THUMPR7 and connecting the donor heart. She orders the bypass machine turned off. After a tense period of flatlining, the THUMPR7 begins beating. The team cheers, but when Maggie looks up to celebrate with her partner, he has vanished.

After showering, Maggie visits the ICU, where Oleg remains unconscious, his new heart beating steadily. Brovski appears, and Maggie checks his phone, confirming that Nadia’s location pin was genuine. Brovski dismisses her suspicions and suggests Marc’s death was the inevitable result of their risk-taking humanitarian work.

As Maggie leaves the facility, she sees a man in a baseball cap exiting the wine cellar ahead of her. Recognizing the cap as unusual in France, she chases after him. He gets into a car and drives away as the gate closes, leaving her standing outside.

Porkchop waits for Maggie at the gate, having been there for 12 hours. They ride back to the guesthouse in silence. Maggie enters Porkchop’s room and checks the side pocket of his satchel before walking outside alone.

By a tree, Nadia confronts her with a gun, accusing Maggie of killing Trace. Nadia reveals that she rechecked Trace’s phone records and knows Maggie called him before he disappeared. Maggie explains that she found a witness, Aisha, who saw Trace return to the TriPoint camp while Marc was still alive. She called Trace to confront him, but he never showed.

Porkchop appears and confesses that he killed Trace. He disarms Nadia and explains that his associate Pinky followed Trace from Dulles Airport. Trace had purchased a gun and drugs, planning to kill Maggie and stage it as a death by suicide. Porkchop confronts Nadia, saying she must have known Trace killed Marc. Nadia admits that Trace hired the “Child Army” to kill Marc, but she convinced them not to. She says Trace saw Marc’s death during the massacre as a crime of opportunity.

Porkchop points his gun at Nadia but ultimately lowers it, saying that killing stays with you, and tells her to go. Maggie feels overwhelmed and trapped by the truth as she stares out at the vineyard.

Three days after returning to Baltimore, Maggie calls Vipers for Bikers looking for Porkchop but is told he is off the grid. Over the following weeks, her calls receive the same response. Five weeks later, she tells Pinky to tell Porkchop she knows and does not care. Pinky cryptically replies that she only thinks she knows and hangs up.

Charles Lockwood calls to report that Oleg is in a coma, but his new heart still beats, and the vineyard facility has been shut down. Pinky calls back to say Porkchop has returned. Outside her home, Maggie opens the griefbot app one last time, then goes inside and tells Sharon they need to delete it for good.

At Vipers, Maggie reveals that she discovered Porkchop was already in France when she arrived from Dubai because she saw his passport and noticed inconsistencies. She deduces that he made a deal with Brovski: After killing Trace and taking the THUMPR7, he delivered the equipment in exchange for money and a guarantee of safety. Porkchop confirms this and apologizes, saying he was protecting her.

Porkchop reveals Sharon called him after seeing Maggie retrieve her father’s gun from the basement, realizing Maggie planned to kill Trace herself. He tells her that killing someone stays with you, and he did not want that burden for her. They embrace.

Porkchop then reveals one final secret: His deal with Ragoravich involved more than equipment. He had Trace’s organs harvested while Trace was still alive—corneas, kidney, lung, liver, pancreas. He implies that the beating heart used in Oleg’s transplant was Trace’s. As bikers enter the bar, all Maggie can hear is the rhythmic sound of a heart beating.