Attacks in town may scuttle the Astraeus mission in the same week the final 20 will be named. Carter and Allison appeal the auditor's recommendation, but the proposed fix, a memory-reading gadget for the candidates' final interviews may give them more details about each other than desired.

The Astraeus participants make their farewells to their earthbound family and friends. Elsewhere, Carter and Jo investigate the person—or thing—which attacked the presidential convoy and if it is in any way related to the cosmic anomalies threatening Eureka.