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The Terminal List Season 1 Episode 5 Recap “Disruption”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of The Terminal List Season 1 Episode 5 “Disruption.” Reece travels to San Francisco to seek answers on a drug that may have started this all. Katie attempts to turn Mike Tedesco in an effort to blow up Capstone’s plans for Nubellum. Tony and his team stick close to Horn, hoping to intercept Reece before he kills his next target. Here’s what you missed!

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Previously on The Terminal List Season 1 Episode 4, with the help of his closest friends, Reece travels to Mexico to locate the triggerman who killed his family. Katie continues her research from a remote location. Steve Horn takes steps to preserve Capstone’s deals, and the San Diego FBI Fugitive Task Force led by Tony Layun enters the fray in pursuit for rogue SEAL James Reece.

Warning… Spoilers below! 

On The Terminal List Season 1 Episode 5, we begin with James Reece (Chris Pratt) in 2007 during his time in Najaf, Iraq. He leads his platoon with Ben (Taylor Kitsch) driving. James defies his superior’s commands to go ahead with a rescue mission.

The team arrives amid gunfire. Reece rescues Liz (Tyner Rushing), who has been shot in the body. Then Reece’s flashback is broken, as he finds himself awake on the plane with Liz, which is parked in their remote headquarters.

The next scene shows Steve (Jai Courtney) meeting with Senator Joe Pryor (Geoff Pierson) as Mike (Paul McCrane) waits outside. The meeting seems to have gone well.

Mike enters Steve’s office, who reassures him that Nubellum is the biggest military contract, regardless of Madam Secretary of Defence Lorraine Hartley’s (Jeanne Tripplehorn) budget reforms. Thus, Elias (Carsten Norgaard) will reconsider.

Mike, however, wants to sell ‘Project RD 4895′ to Steve. That way, Steve can flip it, and Mike gets to keep his company. Everyone is a winner as they all part ways. Steve refuses, as he states they will sell the whole company.

Back with Reece, Liz wakes up to find him planning the next move. Reece suggests they nab Steve by going to Capstone Industries’ headquarters.

Tony Questions Steve

That is what they do, as Reece and Liz arrive outside the headquarters. They watch from a van as Tony Layun (JD Pardo) from the Fugitive Task Force turns up to go inside with his colleague Mackenzie Wilson (Christina Vidal).

Once inside, they question Steve about the death of his man Adrian Gordonis (Jack Carr), who had tried to kill Reece. Steve tells them he doesn’t know what Adrian’s assignment was as it was ‘off the clock.’

Tony informs him that Reece killed Adrian, but Steve denies knowing who Steve is. However, as Mackenzie has a military background, she notices that the tattoos on Steve’s body show he was in the same unit as Reece.

Steve replies and states his tattoos only signify remembrance and nothing else as they leave. Meanwhile, Katie (Constance Wu) is in a meeting with Mike, the CEO of Capstone.

Katie And Mike Team Up

She is grabbing an interview with him and his publicist before the sale goes through. Mike founded Nubellum to make drugs to help tackle Alzheimers disease.

Katie grills Mike on why his company moved towards military nootropics when Capstone came on board. Mike walks out, as it is clear is not happy.

Katie follows him to the bathroom, as she wants the interview. She asks Mike what is ‘Project RD 4895’ and states it could be producing tumours? Mike looks worried, but he tells her it hasn’t reached human trials.

Katie suggests it could have been used on the Navy SEALs who died recently in Syria and caused them tumours, including Reece. Steve tells her he has no idea what she is talking about.

Katie asks him if he is willing to talk before leaving her number and asks him to reach out. As Katie leaves Capstone in a cab, she is being followed by Tony’s men.

Reece notices her leaving from his van and texts her to leave town as she is being followed. Katie is on the phone telling her contact about her meeting with Mike, but she notices a car outside watching her.

Back with Mike, he is in a meeting with Elias and Steve as they discuss the offer. Elias wants to reconsider his first offer. After all, the Pentagon is reconsidering Nubellum’s contract in light of the budget cuts.

Steve interjects and states the contract is still good to go. Mike gives Elias an ultimatum by stating he can pull out of the deal altogether, if he is concerned.

Steve asks Elias what is his number? Everybody leaves with just Steve and Elias in the room. Once outside, Steve copies all files on Nubellam onto a memory stick and calls Katie.

He tells her he might have something useful and arranges a meeting in person tonight. Katie tells him to leave his phone, so he cannot be tracked. Mike walks back into the office and asks Steve if they agreed on a price.

Steve Wants Mike Dead

Steve doesn’t answer but thanks Mike for all his work. As Mikes leaves, one of Steve’s men tells him that Mike copied some files and could be talking to the press. Steve orders his man to follow Mike.

Katie leaves at night to get ready to meet Mike. Meanwhile, Steve leaves Capstone with his men in two cars. Reece is outside Capstone, as well as Tony and Mckenzie.

The latter duo follow Horn. Reece notices that Steve has never had his men split up, so he follows one of the cars going the other way. Katie meets Mike at the train station.

He tells her if Nubellum was doing anything illegal, then it was outside of his knowledge. As for ‘Project RD 4895,’ it allows the brain to encode memory data without the associated trauma. Thus, it could stop PTSD.

Mike began developing the project to prevent PTSD. Steve, though, froze the project after animal testing, but Mike doesn’t know why. However, Mike noticed accounting irregularities two months ago, which is somehow connected to the dead NAVY SEALS.

Reece follows Steve’s men to the train station, who are presumably there to kill Mike and Katie. James gets his gun ready while Steve gives Katie the files he copied.

Mike tells her if she believes his drug caused tumours in the NAVY SEALs, then she should publish the story. However, that is going to take time. Katie notices Steve’s men approaching them, as Mike only left his phone in the car. Thus, he was tracked.

Mike Is Killed

They make a run for it. Steve is shot dead, while Katie continues to run. As she runs, Katie waits and shoots the man dead. As she leaves, another man is about to shoot her dead until Reece kills him. Reece and Katie leave in a car.

She tells Reece if ‘Project 4985’ works, then Nubellam is one of the most valuable companies in the world. If it fails, then all of Horn’s investment is not worth anything.

That is why Steve is rushing the sale and moving his shares from Nubellum to other companies. Thus, any Navy SEALs with tumours have to be silenced. James demands the names of the companies from Katie.

She tells him she needs time and then will leak it via a story. However, James has none of it. He takes Katie’s files and tells her to get out of town.

James is intent on killing whoever is responsible, but Katie tells him he will destroy the story and let Horn get away with it all unless he lets her work on the story. James points a gun at her and drives off.

Reece rings Ben and tells him to find out the names associated with the companies. Ben agrees but warns that this will lead to questions from his superiors.

Back at the Pentagon, Madam Secretary has found Richard’s (Stephen Bishop) encrypted phone that he was using to get in touch with Steve. She tells him they know Steve was sending him money to an account in his mother’s name.

Richard is now under Madam Secretary’s control and will need a good lawyer. Ben has now gotten the news of some names. He tells Reece that Marcus Boykin (Butch Klein) and Saul Agnon (Sean Gunn) had a piece in Nubellum.

Reece Find More Enemies

To his shock, though, the Admiral (Nick Chinlund), Captain Howard (Matthew Rauch) and Commander Cox’s (LaMonica Garrett) names were on the list too. He tells Liz, who is also shocked that they would kill Reece’s family.

James demands they build a bomb to kill Steve, but Liz tries to tell him to think things through. She agrees to help on the condition there are no civilian casualties.

With the bomb made, the media gathers on the day of Nubellum’s sale. Reece arrives outside Capstone in his van with Liz close by in another vehicle. The aim is to set off the bomb.

Katie happens to be there, as Tony and Mackenzie are on hand from the authorities. Steve walks out to the media as they question him about Mike’s death.

He tells the media he is grieving, as well as Reece being involved in Saul’s death. He continues to blame Reece for having had a psychotic breakdown. He then walks away from the media.

As that happens, Tony and Mackenzie notice a van holding up traffic. They check it out. When they do so, another tinted-out vehicle behind them containing Reece makes a move.

James drives closer until he gets parallel with Steve’s car, which is waiting for him. As Tony and Mackenzie approach the vehicle with their guns, they startle Liz, who is just pretending to unload her van full of flowers.

As Steve walks away to get in his car, Reece presses a button for the activation of the bomb. However, Katie approaches Steve and tells him that he killed Mike, not Reece. If Katie doesn’t get out of the way, she could get blown up too.

Reece Kills Steve

Steve Horn portrayed by Jai Courtney on The Terminal List Season 1 Episode 5

Steve Horn portrayed by Jai Courtney on The Terminal List Season 1 Episode 5

She tells him she knows everything about ‘Project RD 4895’ and will expose it and destroy the deal. Steve gets in his car and says he closed the deal yesterday. However, he didn’t announce it due to Mike’s death, out of ‘respect.’

Reece gets out of his car after having signalled to Katie through the window to move. As she moves, Steve orders his men to drive quickly. As they begin to go, Reece activates the bomb.

In the ensuing chaos, Horn is alive but is badly burnt. Katie is alive but hurt a little. Reece gets his gun and shoots Horn’s men dead. Tony and Mackenzie try to stop things.

Reece then approaches Horn, as the latter is at his mercy. He shoots Horn dead. Reece then steals a car and rings Liz to meet him so they can escape. The episode ends with the police on Reece’s tail in some cars from behind.

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Air Date: July 1, 2022

The Terminal List Cast

  • Chris Pratt as Lt. Commander James Reece
  • Taylor Kitsch as Ben Edwards
  • Constance Wu as Katie Buranek
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn as Lorraine Hartley
  • Riley Keough as Lauren Reece
  • Patrick Schwarzenegger as Donny Mitchell
  • Arlo Mertz as Lucy Reece
  • Jai Courtney as Steven Horn
  • JD Pardo as Tony Liddel
  • LaMonica Garrett as Commander Fox
  • Alexis Louder as Nicole Deptul
  • Tom Amandes as Vic
  • Christina Vidal Mitchell as Mac Wilson
  • Jared Shaw as Ernest “Boozer” Vickers
  • Catherine Dyer as Rachel Campbell
  • Remi Adeleke as Terrell “Tee” Daniels
  • Hiram A. Murray as Jackson
  • Matthew Rauch as Captain Howard

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The Terminal List Season 1 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
1 8 Reclamation” The Terminal List Season 1 Finale July 1, 2022
1 7 Extinction July 1, 2022
1 6 Transience July 1, 2022
1 5 Disruption July 1, 2022
1 4 Detachment July 1, 2022
1 3 Consolidation July 1, 2022
1 2 Encoding July 1, 2022
1 1 Engram” The Terminal List Season 1 Premiere July 1, 2022

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