The safe house in Vienna offers no safety—only shadows and secrets. Jimmy, Klara, Graves, and Powell meet with Oleg Markov, a former Soviet field operative who claims he’s defecting. But defectors are never simple, and Markov plays the game like a man who knows time is running out—for everyone.
He delivers a cryptic warning: Atlas isn’t just operating in the East. They’ve infiltrated NATO. A weapon is already in motion, moving under diplomatic cover between Vienna and Frankfurt. But before the team can process the magnitude of the leak, the safe house is surrounded—KGB in the front, Stasi in the rear. Vienna’s neutrality has collapsed into chaos.
Cornered, the team has a choice: abandon Markov and risk him flipping, or bring him along and gamble on his intel. They choose the latter—and escape by inches.
In the end, Markov’s parting words land like a detonation: “That’s where the bomb is.” Atlas’s next phase isn’t theoretical anymore. It’s mobile, active, and headed straight for the West.
