Reflecting on Porkchop’s warning that Nadia is the reason she is in Dubai, Maggie reviews medical files for two pediatric surgeries she is scheduled to perform as part of her cover: an ear-pinning procedure on a five-year-old girl and a cleft lip and palate repair on a four-year-old boy. The complex surgery reawakens her passion for medicine. She realizes that Porkchop used the word “we” during their call to signal that someone might be listening. She realizes that when Oleg’s people tried to delete the griefbot, Sharon alerted Porkchop, who then visited Dr. Barlow and learned about Nadia.

Maggie’s thoughts turn to Marc’s death and, as she considers the theory that his death was faked, she wonders why his body was mutilated. Using her laptop, she navigates to photojournalist Ray Levine’s website. Ray, who was embedded with Maggie’s unit, took a famous photograph of her and Trace during combat. She finds images from the refugee camp, including one of Marc, taken the day before his murder. After logging in with the credentials Ray provided, she reviews his full archive and discovers 12 photographs that reveal a crucial detail. Crying, she closes the laptop.

Bob knocks on her door and agrees to drive her to the Burj Binghatti, despite his objections.