TIMELINE

2:17 AM. The city's most powerful man is found shot outside his compound. No cameras. No witnesses. Just blood on wet stone and a city holding its breath. But Bellator is not dead. He is watching from a Swiss chalet, wounded and perfectly still, as every faction scrambles to fill the vacuum he created by disappearing. Louella moves into war-room mode without being asked. Stacks arrives at the crime scene and reads it not as chaos but as engineering. Claire finds a rounding error that doesn't exist. Tamara vanishes. Shaka becomes the first name on the wrong list. The episode closes in silence — snow on glass, Oud in the air — and Bellator speaks one word into the dark that changes everything.