How Season 2 will end (not really)
Somehow, Alex escapes the electronic fence barrier and gets back into the building. As the Feds are charging into the building, Alex reaches the bio-weapon cylinder. But, a.) the bio-weapon turns out to be something harmless, b.) the ventilation system has been sabotaged so the gas won’t pump and c.) all the seals on the windows and doors have been broken so the gas would all escape outside anyway. Alex hears a thumping from a nearby room and opens it up to find the First Lady bound and gagged, but otherwise unharmed. Meanwhile, during the raid, the minor members of the conspiracy end up shot and killed by the agents, but the bigwigs (Ryan, Nimah, and Lydia) are taken alive.
But at FBI Headquarters, Ryan (who had switched out the bio-weapon) explains that he was working undercover for the CIA, Nimah (who had sabotaged the vent system) was spying for Homeland Security, and Lydia (who had broken all the window seals) was working for a branch of the FBI – the Federal Investigation of Terrorism By Infiltration Taskforce or FITBIT. Miranda, meanwhile, was secretly co-coordinating all of them, without telling any of the others (“so as not to muck up anyone’s individual operation”.) Some of the other team members of the Farmhouse were also there working for an alphabet soup of other agencies – all to catch the leader of this terrorist group. The second-in-command, named Boggus, always took orders from a shadowy figure they dubbed “Mr. Big” who would send secret broadcasts at sporadic intervals. But Boggus got hit by a car six months earlier and killed. They were trying to ascertain the identity of Mr. Big, but hadn't heard from him since Boggus died. They all came up with this scheme to draw Big out of hiding. The murder of the First Lady was a sham (they had replaced her with a death row inmate who preferred being beheaded to lethal injection), and most of the smaller “murders” were also faked with bloody squibs.
They study Boggus’s computer and it has recordings of Big’s prior secret broadcasts. But in each one, Big’s face remains in the shadows of the background, only with a piece of his face ever visible at one time. Their computer expert they “traded” was actually in a safe house. He runs an algorithm that spots each time a portion of Big’s face appears on any recording and pieces them all together then runs the mosaic through facial recognition. They end up with a name and they soon burst into this guy’s apartment. But it turns out he’s just an actor named Biff Trout. Biff recognizes Boggus’s picture as the man who hired him to make a series of videos for a movie he was supposedly filming. Boggus was just playing the videos on his laptop to make it seem like he was working for some secret leader to make himself look more important.
“You know, all those messages from Biff were kinda generic, now that I think of it,” admits Ryan.
“We’ve been trying to catch this guy, and he wasn’t even real.” moans Miranda. “If we’d known that, we could have just arrested the underlings months ago.”
“Well, I feel dumb,” proclaims Nimah. “That whole ‘I hate America’ act was for nothing.”
“All that property and collateral damage, too. Well, live and learn,” laments Lydia.
“What’s our next caper?” asks Alex.
Next season, Alex and Ryan join Homeland Security, where they’re put through another series of pointless tests like being dropped naked on a freeway and told to find their way home with ending up on someone’s cell phone video, or being asked to go into a pre-school and record the little kids swearing – even if they have to nudge them into doing it. There will be three timelines this time: the present (which is 2 years from now), one year before that, and six years after the present where they infiltrate the DNC, who is trying to decide whether their next Presidential candidate should be Muslim, gay or transgender…
(The sad thing is that the real plots for the rest of this season and next will probably be even sillier than this was.)