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Zero Day Finale Recap: Up in Flames
The series fumbles at the finish line by ditching its most intriguing plotlines in favor of a stupid conspiracy to save America’s fractured politics.
For the better part of the joint-session hearing, he keeps to the plan, reading from the teleprompter with a steady voice: The malware used was developed by the National Security Agency and deployed by a group of terrorists led by the likes of Kidder and Lyndon. Now he has put it in Mitchell’s hands to clean up the mess, and he shall retreat to his handsome Hudson estate, where he won’t finish the memoir because he burned the pages in the library fire, but where he will continue to watch over the river with a satisfaction as smug as Dreyer’s when he thought it had all gone his way. Proteus was, by far, the most intriguing story line — the combination of a cyberattack and the deployment of a top-secret, extremely powerful neurological weapon is the kind of thing that might send imaginative, sharp minds like Alan J. Pakula’s or Sydney Pollack’s spinning.
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