Link has a mission, to go to the bunker, where Xavier is from, to destroy Alex. He asks her to come with but she declines because she is afraid. Link leaves Annie behind who is pregnant of his child. A heavily wounded Xavier is captured by Annie after he lived with another group of people. Annie wants him to bring her back to Colorado, where he is from and where Link went to.

Well, from then on we see them on the road, he promises to bring her to Colorado, but he tells her his first wants to find his wife. She agrees but Annie dies bearing her child. Xavier takes care of Annie’s child, promises her to bring the child to Link but first he has to find his way to his wife and meets people to whom he entrusts the temporary care for Annie’s child.

Xavier is determined to find his wife and bring her back to the bunker in Colorado, to reunite her with their children. That he is able to find her, is something of a miracle but getting her back is even more difficult.

Meanwhile, inside the bunker, we see Sinatra recovering from the shooting, it was not Xavier who shot her but Jane, a young woman who belonged to Xavier’s security team. Jane was very dangerous, she had her own agenda. Sinatra didn’t know who shot her at first but even when she realized who did, she still kept her on because Jane was too dangerous to have her opposite to her. Jane killed the new president, frames Nicole Robinson (Krys Marshall) for the murder who was digging into Jane’s life. Nicole was a lover of the former president. She found out that Jane killed Billy Pace and that she was fired from the CIA. Later we learn that the phrase: that guy can use a breath mint, is code for that guy (or woman), who needs to die. Sinatra ordered Jane to do this, who was in the room when she spoke those words.

When Link and his men come to the mountain where the bunker is, he tells Sinatra he wants to meet with Alex, what we only learn in the last few episodes is that Alex is not a person but a super computer. Link wants to destroy it because he thinks it’s too dangerous. The finale episode brings everything together, Xavier arrives at the mountain with his wife. With armed forces led by Link closing in outside, a small group inside the bunker sabotages the air and production systems to force the heavy bunker doors open. This directly conflicts with the bunker's lockdown protocols, triggering a deadly nuclear meltdown and failing of the cooling towers. As a result, Dr. Gabriela Torabi (Sarah Shahi) is forced to initiate "Exodus”, the bunker's emergency evacuation protocol.

Alex is revealed to be a highly advanced, potentially time-manipulating quantum computer, built by Link years before the apocalypse. While trying to reach their children during the chaos, Xavier and Sinatra uncover that the AI's system has designated Xavier as "User X". Knowing she will perish, Sinatra sacrifices herself by sealing the bunker doors from the inside. She leaves Xavier with instructions to find a second bunker deep beneath the Denver airport, where he will find Alex and hopefully find a way to save the Earth.

It could have also been a series finale, leaving out certain scenes in the last few minutes of the final episode. We know now what Xavier needs to do, what his next mission will be for season 3.

When I compare the first season with the second season, I do think I favor the first season. Why? Well a few reasons: The first season is fresh, it had a nice twist, it had James Marsden as president Cal Bradford, which I really liked. When I set this off to season two, yes, it is entertaining for sure, but season two becomes yet another dystopian TV show like for instance Revolution, The Last Days, Jericho, Jeremiah and so on. Sure, a different story but still, something there is more of with some variety. You don’t have to agree with me of course, but that is how I see it. And when you see my grades for this season, it is even more difficult to understand why I prefer the first season!

Season two’s main thread to me was Xavier, finding his wife, reunite them with their kids, and what he had to endure to make that happen. Second main thread was that of Link, trying to kill Alex, the AI he built before the world ended, unknowingly becoming a father and getting to meet the child in the finale episode. When I read these main threads, it says family!

Final Word:

Even though I prefer the first season, I did enjoy season two for the most part. Really think Sterling K. Brown is a great actor, how he plays this character Xavier Collins, is for me the main reason why I like this show. I also really enjoyed Julianne Nicholson’s character Sinatra and as I said earlier, James Marsden as president Cal Bradford. I am sure going to miss Sinatra in season three, like I did with Cal Bradford in season two. Yes, I realize he was in season two also, but only a small percentage of his season one screentime.