American Odyssey Episode 1.07 Soup Sandwich

Picking up right where the last episode ended, Luc, irate at the death of his girlfriend, stands in Shakir's apartment and redials Odelle's family on his cell phone knowing full well it will ping the NSA and alert the organization to their location. He drops the phone and exits, guaranteeing that Odelle and Aslam must flee, despite Odelle's scheduled meeting with New York Times reporter Isabel. At Shakir's suggestion, Odelle tapes a video for Isabel that explains her entire ordeal and pleads with her to pass along a message to her family. Shakir sends Aslam and Odelle off in a tearful goodbye (and in a car), confident that they will find respite at their new destination, Tienfala, where they should find safe passage to Europe.

After Aslam and Odelle leave, Shakir attempts to contact General Diallo, but each phone call receives the same stunted rejection: Diallo refuses all communication. Shakir fights through fear to meet with Isabel at Club Cachette, but a return to his apartment to obtain Odelle's tape finds him face to face with the intrepid Osela assassin, Frank. Turns out he trailed Isabel to Club Cachette, and he wastes little time in torturing Shakir until, beaten to a pulp, Shakir tells him that Odelle and Aslam left for Tienfala. Frank leaves Shakir for dead, but Isabel follows his tracks to Shakir's apartment and vows to find Shakir help.

Meanwhile, Aslam reveals he plans to make a pit stop en route to Tienfala - at Luc's safe house. Odelle erupts, angry that they must again traverse through Ansar Dine-controlled areas. They manage to arrive at Luc's without incident, but Luc greets them with a gun and rejects any notion that he will help them travel to Tienfala. He allows them to stay the night but demands they leave without him tomorrow morning. This is not his fight. Despite Luc's reaction, Aslam agrees to navigate Odelle through the desert on his own.

Peter feels alone in his strange journey, too, as he joins fringe criminals Jenji and Rhys outside the Societel Mining Data Center in New Jersey, eager to steal secrets that will expose the company's vast illegal dealings. They sneak past security guards to the server room, but as they hack into the Societel server using Peter's access code, Jenji notices a big problem: a fully functional camera system that Rhys neglected to freeze. Worse yet, when Peter exits the facility, he finds himself staring at a gun... held by the same shadowy man who stole Gentry's journal. The man escorts Peter back into the server room, intent on corralling all three of the perpetrators - except Jenji gets the jump on him. Before Peter can stop him, Jenji murders the man with a hammer in a brutal display... and hands Peter a thumb drive with the just-stolen evidence. He assures Peter he will disappear.

Disappearing acts are on Harrison's mind as he leverages his conviction about his father's murder and Yusuf's ability to expose it to convince Yusuf to lower his gun. Nonetheless, Yusuf still refuses to help Harrison and Bob regarding their investigation into Black Sands - until they offer to eliminate Yusuf's online trail (i.e., the one they followed to find him), and Yusuf obliges with a single name: Thomas Darnell, a senator and David Tenant's former boss. Harrison harnesses this new information to gain a meeting with Tenant where information Tenant releases leads Bob and Harrison to a remarkable discovery: the person who betrayed Yusuf was Abdul Abbas. But why would a terrorist betray a terrorist?

Thoughts of betrayal rise to the surface for Ron when he makes his own shocking discovery: the engraving on Odelle's wedding ring, one of several personal effects hand-delivered by Colonel Glen, appears to have the wrong date. When Ron tells Suzanne, she lights up, emboldened by the clear evidence of the cover-up. She sends Harrison a tweet and broadcasts the news that somebody created a fake ring and her mom is alive. Suzanne adds a message to her mom's voice mail, too - bragging to whoever continues to intercept her calls that they screwed up.

At his home, a shaken Peter hides the thumb drive and remains distracted while Maya rages about news of Cameron's hospitalization after a recent attack. Peter dodges the conversation and sneaks out to solicit Joe's help and advice, but once he implies that a murder might be involved, Joe drops all interest and demands Peter stay away. This sends a paranoid Peter back to the house where he throws away the thumb drive, his only link to the crime scene. Later, Maya marches up to her dad and accuses him of coordinating Cameron's beating. Although Peter denies involvement, the questions keep coming for him when two detectives show up to the house for an interview about a dead body linked to the Gentry murder - and they show him a photograph of the man Jenji killed. He skirts further inquiry and, terrified of what might happen next, calls Tsaldari and comes clean. Although fearful for Peter, Tsaldari advises him to retrieve the thumb drive from the trash can on the street. He does so immediately... and catches the suspicious eyes of the detectives still loitering outside his house.

Curious about the connection between Abdul Abbas and Yusuf, both Harrison and Bob decide to revisit Yusuf to press him for more information... except when they arrive, the whole neighborhood crawls with police. Harrison deduces that only one other individual knew Yusuf was still alive: Anna. He calls her and she confirms that she notified the police out of concern for Harrison's unsafe obsession with Yusuf, a person the government believes is a terrorist. Harrison lays into her over the phone only to experience an unexpected interruption: Homeland Security. Agents cuff Harrison and explain that they found his fingerprints at the home of a known terrorist. They cart him away as a confused and horrified Anna screams to know what's going on...