Eric is shocked hearing that a two-megaton nuclear explosion, centered midway between Baltimore and Washington D.C., had gone off only an hour before. The resulting carnage exceeded anything he had ever. In a state of mild panic himself, he found the banks closed, supermarkets jammed, gasoline lines stretching for blocks, all ATMs out of cash, and a host of unforeseen consequences so far from the eastern seaboard. Tiffany calls, wanting to know if it was a Musket operation. The aftermath of the explosion portrayed in this segment, and particularly in the next, should be reflected upon by all Americans, particularly those in Washington.
In this segment, Colonel Simmons, who experienced the dilemma of the bombing of Ft. Benning along with Potts, makes his reappearance.

The segment records the unexpected apocalypse that followed on the heels of the combined base bombing of Ft. Benning and the Pandemic caused by Spritz’s Doomsday virus. America had hardly begun to recover from the Dirty bomb attack and the pandemic when only three months later, the unthinkable occurs; a 2-megaton nuclear device is detonated halfway between Baltimore and Washington D.C. Eric has no knowledge or involvement in the event and believes the Muskets could not have been involved on any level.
The portrayal of the immediate and subsequent events: the demographic tidal wave, mass insanity, collapse of basic services, complete inability of Homeland Security and FEMA and crisis response agencies and teams to mitigate the disaster or be of any help to those afflicted in areas where the EMP had destroyed all means of communication, the terror and hopelessness, are prescient and present a plausible scenario to be seriously considered by all.