[s7e13] The Plunge -

Elias is given an ultimatum by the season’s antagonist, Sloane. He can either leak the documents that will destroy Sloane (but also bankrupt Elias’s own family) or walk away and let Sloane win. His mentor, Sarah, tells him: "You’ve spent seven years testing the water. It’s time to see if you can swim."

In a moment of desperation, when the security teams close in on the beach, Elias realizes the only way to get the encrypted drive to the extraction boat is to jump from the 40-foot pier into the midnight surf. It’s a baptismal moment. He survives the fall, but the drive is damaged, leaving the audience in the dark about whether the data was saved. The Emotional Core [S7E13] The Plunge

The screen cuts to black as the sound of a heavy wave crashes. Elias is given an ultimatum by the season’s