From a window near the barn door, Ryan could see people running out of the house in panic. Since they were running in the opposite direction of the barn, Ryan realized that it was the perfect time to escape. He broke the point of the bobby pin by pushing the end on the floor and breaking the point off. He then stuck the broken pin down the inner side of the hole where the shackle locks and unlocked it.

Once Ryan pushed open the door, he screamed, "Go, go!"

The three of them ran out of the cage, and then Ryan rushed over to where the Evzones laid down their stuff, pulled out his walkie talkie, and asked frantically, "Sabu, Sabu, where are you?!"

"There you are, I was starting to get worried. I'm standing by as you requested, but there seems to be a problem, a lot of people are running away from the area," Sabu replied, informing Ryan of what he had seen from the cockpit and overheard on transmissions he had intercepted.

"Get the plane ready for takeoff, we'll be there soon," Ryan replied as he began to leave the barn.

Peter saw Ryan rushing around in a hurry, and asked, "Where are you going, are we leaving now?"

Ryan turned around after walking down the door, and replied, "I've got to find Rachel, free the pilot, we need her."

"Alright, I'll free that pilot," Ione replied, emphasizing the word "free," as she grabbed her gun from the pile of their confiscated items.

When Ryan overheard how Ione said what she said, he ran back to the barn, and said, "What, no! Peter, you free her!"

"Okay," Peter replied as Ryan went off to find Rachel.

Ione pulled Erebus out of Peter's backpack and threw it too him. While most people would move to the side at the sight of a sword flying towards them, Peter stood still, held his hand out, and grabbed Erebus from its hilt. He spun it around a few times once he held his sword again, letting its energy rush through and reinvigorate him. Megan turned around to face the Albanys when Ione called her "Pilot," and saw Peter getting ready to strike with his sword. As Peter began to run towards the cage while he moved Erebus from above his shoulders to in front of his chest, Megan ducked at the far end of the cage because she though Peter was going to kill her.

"Oh, no, no, no," Megan cried as Peter broke the lock on the cage with Erebus.

"Let's go!" Ione said as Megan realized that Peter wasn't trying to kill her.

As the Albanys liberated Megan from her cage, Ryan ran through the empty Rogers home, screaming, "Rachel, Rachel!"

He stopped for a moment when he saw a pair of car keys lying on the counter, seeing that they could use the car to get to the plane faster, he grabbed them as he continued screaming, "Rachel, where are you?!"

Ryan then proceeded to run down the same hallway Ralph escorted Rachel just a few minutes ago. He began to open every door in that hallway until he made his way to Secretary Rogers' study. When he opened the door and saw people inside he pulled out his gun and held it close to his body. President Rogers noticed the armed man enter his wife's study, so he immediately pulled out his own weapon and aimed it at Ryan. Once Ryan noticed that Rachel was in the room, along with the Rogers, he signaled to President Rogers that he meant them no harm and slowly put his gun back in his holster.

Ryan slowly approached Secretary Rogers' desk as he asked, "What's going on?"

"There's a nuclear bomb coming this way," President Rogers replied.

After hearing the words "nuclear bomb," Ryan's face became as dead as Rachel's after watching her father's message, leading him to freeze for a moment and then walk up to Rachel, and say, "Rachel, we've got to go."

Once Rachel snapped out of the trance she was in, Ryan replied, "I know where your father is."

Rachel barely moved as she tried to contemplate what Ryan said in the silent room, but Secretary Rogers interjected, and commanded, "Go with him, Rachel. You must go."

Ryan had walked behind Rogers' desk and had begun to pull Rachel out of the room before she turned back, grabbed the Secretary's wrist, and said, "Come with us."

Secretary Rogers pulled Rachel's hand of her wrist, and replied, "It's us they want. If we leave, even more will suffer the same fate."

"Come on," Ryan commanded as he pulled on Rachel's arm.

However, Rachel did not let go of the Secretary's arm, prompting Rogers' to respond, "You must save yourself."

"Come on," Ryan said as he pulled even harder.

"Go!" Secretary Rogers commanded as she released Rachel's grasp from her wrist.

Once Rachel was free, Ryan put his hand on her back and pushed her out of Secretary Rogers' study, screaming, "There's no time!"

As Rachel and Ryan made their way out of her study, Secretary Rogers cried out one final message for them, "Save Democracy, save the American Dream!"

The street in front of the Rogers' home was a mess; all of the Evzones began to load all of their supplies into vehicles they had hidden under tarps and in neighbors' garages. Regina Rogers got in a packed car with Ralph and left her parent's home immediately after, convinced that her parents would get out as well. As the last of the Evzones loaded whatever remained, Peter, Ione, and Megan just stood idly by, watching the men and women running around frantically. When Ryan and Rachel ran out the front door, Ryan held the car remote up in the air and pressed the panic button, resulting in a car alarm going off. Ryan screamed at Peter, Ione, and Megan to follow him and Rachel as they were going to go find where the car alarm was coming from.

It was a bit difficult to hear the car alarm because of the commotion the Evzones made, but once the last Evzone evacuated the area it was clear that the alarm was coming from the left side of the home. The group ran to the left and found a black SUV with its alarm going off. Ryan turned off the alarm, unlocked the SUV, and got in the driver's seat. Rachel sat in the passenger seat while Peter, Ione, and Megan sat in the second row. Once the SUV started, Ryan hit the pedal and began to drive back to the plane. As the group made their way off the Rogers' property and down Old House Lane, President and Secretary Rogers walked out of their home and watched them speed off.

It took Ryan ten minutes to get from the Rogers' home to the field where the plane was. Since the town was void of Deplorables, or any other security group, there was no one to enforce the laws, so Ryan took the opportunity to drive way passed the speed limit and even drive off road. Once they arrived at their location, they found that Sabu had prepared the plane for takeoff as Ryan had requested and was ready to leave immediately.

When Ryan stopped the SUV and everyone got out of the vehicle, Ione ran towards the plane, and screamed, "Peter, let's go!"

Peter was already running towards the plane while Ryan screamed at Megan while she stood next to the SUV, "Come on, let's get out of here!"

"Get us out of here, punch it!" Ryan commanded Sabu once everyone else entered the plane.

Rachel closed the door of the plane from the inside and looked out the window, as Sabu replied, "I'm not very optimistic about our odds."

"Not now, Sabu!" Ryan barked back at Sabu once he got into the co-pilot's seat as the plane was slowly gaining speed for takeoff.

Frustrated at how slow the plane was going, Ryan pushed the thrust lever into full thrust in order to make it out of the area as possible. The plane was shaking terribly as it was skating across the uneven ground, very different from the paved runways it usually took off from. Back at the Rogers home, President and Secretary Rogers stood outside their home and watched as a cone shaped object got larger and larger as it fell from the sky. After staring at the cone for a few seconds, the two closed their eyes, bowed their heads, and clasped their hands together in order to recite one final prayer.

Praying was the last thing the Rogers could do since they did not leave Chappaqua when their daughter, the Evzones, and Rachel and her group did. Secretary Rogers knew that she had to stay behind as her time had come and gone. Younger and working people had fallen for the lies that she was corrupt and did not truly represent them, and it was that divide that distanced her from the Resistance. Even if she did leave Chappaqua, she knew that there would be more strikes in more places, all of them aimed at eliminating her. She knew that she couldn't persuade everyone in the Resistance and the other anti-Thump groups that didn't trust her to see that she was on their side by giving a speech or by giving all of her secret intelligence to them. In the age of Thump, emotion was king. It didn't matter if you had the best plan, if you couldn't speak with passion, you were ignored. The only way she could redeem herself in their eyes was by giving up her life in order to save many more.

Back on the plane, Ryan became very anxious as Sabu had not yet gotten the plane of the ground, screaming as he hit his aircraft control yoke, "Come on!"

Rachel looked out the window of the plane and saw the nuclear warhead getting closer and closer to its destination, as Ryan screamed, "Get us off the ground, now!"

"It's not safe to take off yet, we're going too fast. I have to do this very delicately," Sabu replied as he began to gently bring the plane up.

"Not safe, my ass. Let go of the wheel," Ryan said as he pushed Sabu away from the controls with his left arm, and proceeded to bring the control yoke closer to his chest, thus finally getting the plane off the ground.

Now that they were in the air, Ryan made the plane take a right turn, placing the plane on a westbound course, getting them farther away from Chappaqua. As they flew over the Tappan Zee region of the Hudson River they thought they were in the clear, until they heard the most violent explosion they had ever heard. The nuclear bomb had finally made its way to Chappaqua, detonating over Saw Mill River Parkway, a road around three thousand feet northwest of the Rogers' home. This particular target was selected in order to prove just how cruel the UST could be. The radius of the initial fireball created by a W-87 thermonuclear warhead would have been strong enough to incinerate anything and anyone in its vicinity without causing pain. This particular target was selected because it put the Rogers' home outside the vicinity. During the last fraction of a second of their lives, the Rogers experienced unbelievable pain as the fireball expanded, turning them and everything around them into ash as they prayed.

The air blast destroyed all of the buildings in northern Chappaqua and flattened or severely damaged the infrastructure of the rest of Chappaqua and the other towns, villages, and hamlets in the area. One such place unknowingly affected by the blast was one of Thump's own golf courses, the Thump National Golf Club Westchester; it was damaged by the air blast and was covered in radioactive debris from the fallout. The air blast spread out so much that it shook the plane, nearly bringing it and the passengers inside down. Ryan and Sabu feared that they would have to "pull a Sully Sullenberger" and land the plane in the Hudson River below them, but fortunately, the air blast seven miles out wasn't as strong as it was at ground zero. Thus, they were able to stabilize the plane and continue to evacuate the area.