Tony Harris takes a drive to clear his head and discovers that DHS has raised the official Threat Level to "red". Special Agent Joe Unes recovers from the supermarket bombing, while Scott Stauffer calls his friends to let them know about what pundits had dubbed 10/13, or Black Friday. Sheriff Ted Thornton hears from Pastor Dave Schiebold, who admits that he knows the whereabouts of the Moore family. Unknown to them, Captain Thiel and his A-team are listening in.

The Moores decide the safest place to hide is back in Mayfield and they circle back to town in the middle of the night. Agent Joe Unes spends the night in the hospital, recovering from his brush with death. Captain Thiel is ordered by a man named Malthus, a DHS operative with above top secret clearance, to retrieve the Moores' computer instead of going after them -- but Thiel has his own ideas.

Bob Moore decides that Sheriff Thornton isn't kidding and gets Cindy and their son into the SUV and out of the house in less than ten minutes. Destination: unknown. Sheriff Thornton's confrontation with the men in black is interrupted by a phone call from a distraught farmer just west of town. Thornton and his chief deputy rush to the scene of a grisly murder/suicide. The entire family--father, mother, and three small children--are dead. The men in black, led by a Captain Thiel, follow Thornton to the farm. They finally take Thornton's suggestion to leave--but they also take a computer from the house.

Bob Moore gets a call from Sheriff Ted Thornton advising him to take his family and get out of their home immediately. Unknown to Bob, armed men dressed in black were looking for him--but for what reason, Sheriff Thornton doesn't know. Tony Harris gets a call from the Illinois National Guard. In response to the terror events taking place all across the country, his unit, the 369th MPs, has been called up effective immediately. In St. Louis, FBI agent Joe Unes is pulled away from the fiery remains of the bombed grocery store by the four friends. Now Unes wants to know why Jared Gruner, Terry Norlock, Scott Stauffer, and Vijay Sampurnananda were really there.

FBI Agent Joe Unes survives the supermarket bombing, but his partner and 36 others aren't so fortunate. The four friends decide to abandon their game and investigate. Meanwhile in Chicago, Tony Harris, instead of Game 1 of the World Series between the Cubs and Red Sox, is greeted by news of a terror attack at Wrigley Field -- and at least three others in Philadelphia, Houston, and San Diego. And if that isn't enough, it appears that a new war is breaking out in the Middle East -- the opening shots in the battle of Armageddon.

We meet Chicago elementary school PE teacher Tony Harris, who looks forward to a quiet Friday night at home. The Moore family in Mayfield, Iowa, enjoys grilled burgers and a board game. In St. Louis, FBI agent Joe Unes and his partner are called out to a hostage situation at a supermarket to investigate a possible connection to a terrorist group. Nearby, four friends gather for their weekly D&D-type role-playing game. Then an bone-rattling explosion puts the game on hold.

Deep below a mountain in southeast Pennsylvania, a government operative named Green confers with his IT expert. And a 10-year-old boy in Iowa receives a mysterious e-mail...from God.