The Terminal List

1

"The Engram"

Antoine Fuqua

David DiGilio

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander James Reece and his platoon of fourteen SEALs, along with an informant, execute a mission to move in on Dr. Kahani, a chemical weapons expert, in Syria. However, they are ambushed, and the whole team dies, save for Reece and his friend, Ernest 'Boozer' Vickers. The NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) interviews Reece about the mission, and question several of his recollections. After he's medically cleared, he and Boozer fly home. Reece relays his mission to his best friend, CIA officer and former SEAL Ben Edwards, who seems dismissive of any foul play. Reece arrives home to his wife and daughter, Lauren and Lucy, but they notice his memory loss. The following day, Boozer is found dead in his home, apparently by suicide. When he notices that headaches have been irritating him, he goes to a nearby clinic late at night for an MRI Scan, but is attacked with his own gun that he locked in a safe at home, before finding Lauren and Lucy dead.

2

"Encoding"

Ellen Kuras

David DiGilio

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

Reece mourns Lauren and Lucy's passing, accompanied by his friend from Mexico, Marco del Toro, and another friend, former army pilot Elizabeth 'Liz' Riley. When investigative journalist Katie Buranek tells him that NCIS Agent Josh Holder, the man handling his case, finds no evidence to prove Reece's innocence in the death of his family, Reece takes measures to be careful. He also theorizes that Holder could've been involved in, if not responsible for the death of Lauren and Lucy. He takes a drawing of Lucy's, portraying his family, and writes Holder's name on the back, starting his 'terminal list'. He then surveils Holder before working with Edwards to get information from Holder's computer files. Secretary of Defense Lorraine Hartley meets with Reece in a bar, assuring him that Kahani was killed in another mission. Reece now has no leads, but Edwards tells him that Holder pulled his biometrics, implying that Reece's suspicions were probably correct. Reece then sneaks into Holder's apartment and assassinates him in his bed after Holder admits he'd been bribed by Capstone Industries VP to close the investigation.

3

"Consolidation"

M. J. Bassett

Daniel Shattuck

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

With the second name to add to the terminal list, Capstone Industries Vice President Saul Agnon, Reece meets Buranek to tell her of his suspicions. However, Buranek is dismissive, telling Reece that the clinic he went to had discovered a tumor in his head. He then notices an operator (later identified as Adrian Gordonis) has been following him, and he outsmarts his would-be assassin before killing him and escaping. Buranek is now convinced that Reece isn't entirely crazy, promising to find any connection to his mission and Capstone if there is one. In the meantime, Capstone CEO Steve Horn is training with his bodyguards from Talos Security during lunch. When he gets back to the office, Agnon discloses Gordonis' failed mission. Reece fills Edwards in on Agnon, and his friend goes to study their new target in a golf tournament, where Agnon meets Dr Mike Tedesco, CEO of Nubellum Pharmaceuticals. After Agnon attends and disbands a party in his home, Reece sneaks in and interrogates him, learning about Horn, a project called RD4895, and a lawyer called Marcus Boykin who hired sicarios to kill Reece's family. With two new names to add to his list, Reece poisons Agnon.

4

"Detachment"

Frederick E.O. Toye

John Lopez

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

Reece treks up a mountain in Wyoming Backcounty to set up a sniper shot, killing Boykin in his car and copying data from his phone to send to Edwards. San Diego's FBI branch is tasked with capturing Reece, leading Tony Layun, Mackenzie 'Mac' Wilson, Junior Alba and Nicole Deptula to find Katie hidden in her brother, Brian's beach house. They try to interrogate her, but she remains stubborn, fearful that she can't trust anyone. She also theorizes that Reece's deceased platoon may have also had tumors. Edwards tracks the Sicario group responsible for the death of Reece's family. Edwards tries to reason with him before the group then learn about Reece's tumor. He gets medicine to control the symptoms but still wants to go through with the mission to kill the fifth name on the list, Navajas. After successfully killing Navajas' crew, Reece subdues the man, disembowels him, and leaves him to die.

5

"Disruption"

Tucker Gates

Olu Odebunmi & Tolu Awosika

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

Reece and Riley are using a hangar to plan a capture mission for Horn. The easiest way would be to break through the FBI, who Reece has discovered is onto him and Buranek, in the middle of the financial district. Buranek confronts Tedesco about RD4895, who theorizes that this could be why Horn wants to sell his company. He then gives information about RD4895 to Buranek, explaining that it's an experimental drug that was supposed to solve PTSD by stopping the encoding of traumatic memories on the brain. However, Horn suddenly stopped the project, making him theorize that the Capstone CEO illegally tested it on Reece's troop. Horn, aware of Tedesco's snooping, sends Talos agents to kill both Tedesco and Buranek. Tedesco dies, but Buranek survives after killing one before being saved by Reece, who she tells her findings to. Reece also learns that there were shell company owners who were involved, and when Buranek tries to withhold the information out of confusion and fear, Reece steals it before threatening her. The following day, he learns from Edwards, who he shares the info with, that his Admiral, Gerald Pillar, his captain, Leonard Howard, and his commander, Bill Cox, were also involved. Reece, angry and betrayed, creates an explosively formed projectile and uses it to ambush Horn at Capstone Industries, endangering many lives, including Buranek's, but leaves no civilian casualties while killing Horn and his bodyguards before running.

6

"Transience"

Sylvain White

Max Adams

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

Two weeks earlier, Reece had visited his parents in law about seeking revenge for their daughter and granddaughter. Riley starts worrying about Reece's mental state, but Edwards assures her that he'll be fine. The FBI deploy all available tactical personnel to deal with Reece, but his training and his head start help him maintain distance. Reece reminisces over a training session by the beach, where his memory confusion leads him to think about how he was betrayed. Reece manages to steal a bag of explosives from the FBI, sparing Layun's life after having a headshot on him, but threatens Layun to stay out of his way. The FBI continues chasing him anyway and manage to catch him, but he's planted explosives for an ambush. After threatening Wilson, who refuses to listen to his demands, he causes a mudslide, burying them both. He makes it out and saves Wilson from being buried alive before he escapes. He apologizes to Riley for his behavior, who now encourages him to keep going. Then he meets Edwards at a beach in California before they plan their next series of missions.

7

"Extinction"

Frederick E.O. Toye

Brooke Roberts

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

SECDEF Lorraine Hartley classifies Reece as a domestic terrorist and the San Diego's branch of the FBI begins to get desperate. However, a fearful Buranek gives them the lead they need to find out Reece's motives. They get access to a capitalization table, an accounting record of everyone who made money from the successful Nubellum sale. They discover the shell companies involved, and learn that Pillar, Howard and Cox are Reece's next targets, setting a new plan in motion to capture him. Meanwhile, Reece and Edwards are forming a plan of their own to kill all three. Reece creates a suicide vest, lined with two claymore mines for one of his targets. Pillar realizes that Hartley is conducting a sham investigation on him to cover herself, but defends his position about the mission that killed Reece's dead troop. When he tries to reach Howard for more legal trump cards, Howard tries to run, but is kidnapped by Edwards, along with his wife Ann and son TJ. Reece finds Cox outside a bar, subdues him, and interrogates him for more information before drowning him in the Pacific Ocean. Reece then threatens Howard with his family, telling him that either he dies alone or they die too. Howard does as he's told, wearing the suicide vest and getting blown up alongside Pillar, who first tries to beg Reece for his life. Layun learns that the Department of Defense, and in turn, Hartley, authorized RD4895, making the experiment legal despite no approval from the FDA, and discloses this to Buranek, who plans on releasing a story surrounding this revelation. Reece escapes from Layun who tries to capture him again. Buranek attempts to send the story to her publisher, however her email does not go through. Just then, Lorraine Hartley finds Buranek, telling her the story is only half true, before offering Buranek an offer to interview her.

8

"Reclamation"

Sylvain White

Lisa Long & Hennah Sekander

July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)

After learning that Hartley ordered the ambush mission, and approved of RD4895, Reece has the ninth name to add to his list, travelling with Edwards to get to her. Before publishing the story, Buranek holds one more interview with Hartley. During the interview, Buranek manages to get Hartley to admit that she knew the SEALS had tumors, and that she let them be killed during the mission in Syria, thus proving her culpability. They make it through the LA branch of the FBI, who've taken the case from the San Diego Branch. Layun and Wilson, still looking to even the score with Reece, get HRT to work with them to capture Reece and Hartley so both can face justice. Reece's last remaining friend, a Rhodesian SEAL teammate named Raife Hastings, supplies Reece with a boat and some gear, leaving a note telling him that he's repaid a favor he previously owed, and that they're now even. Reece and Edwards then kill many Talos operatives, who Hartley hired after dumping CID to kill Reece for her own agenda, before Reece enters her mansion and kills his way to her saferoom. Buranek begs Reece to spare Hartley, but he's too hungry for revenge. Hartley commits suicide, and Reece leaves after Layun, who knows that Reece was betrayed, wrongfully pursued, and practically dead, lets him go. Unfortunately for Reece, he discovers that there's a tenth name to add to his list, and with Buranek's help, he's heartbroken to discover that it's Edwards, who admits to being involved in the mission, but tearfully denies being involved in Lauren and Lucy's deaths, claiming that he helped Reece out of repentance. Edwards then lets Reece kill him. Reece then thinks back to a moment when he and his family had a heart to heart conversation about his possible death, a flashback that was confused multiple times before, but he now remembers clearly. He then remorselessly looks at the terminal list one last time, before turning it around to see Lucy's family drawing, mourning his losses once more. He commits the drawing to heart and memory before letting the wind blow it into the ocean, setting sail for Mozambique.