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Hacker Mark, aka 'Romulus', tail-gates his way right into the Khromacom corporate HQ where the IT Team are fire-fighting a cyber-attack. He secures a job on the IT security team, much to the satisfaction of his sinister handler, 'Mother'.

‘Mother’ or Maurice as we find his real name to be, is sure that he can keep the operation on the road. He uses Mark’s past to try to blackmail him. He tests the security guy’s sincerity in turning over a new leaf. Meanwhile AJ gets his big break and a new security star is born at Khromacom. Think all the loose ends are tied up? There’s always a twist in the best thrillers.

This adversary is relentless. Mark and AJ know that just because an attack has been thwarted, they will just keep coming. The information hacked from ‘Mother's' phone leads them to a USB key, surreptitiously handed to Erica by the American businessman. If she plugs it into her laptop the game is up, the confidential information about the merger will be extracted by ‘Mother’s’ terrifying masters.

Mark realizes he can’t do this on his own. He recruits AJ into the game. It’s risky but there’s no alternative. ‘Mother’ calls a clandestine meeting in a deserted underground car park. It looks like Mark’s plan will be thwarted when the Controller takes his phone. Is the countersting over before it gets started?

Mark has a hunch that Erica will be targeted at a big finance conference, so he gets assigned as her security detail. To Mark’s shock and dismay, ‘Mother’ breaks cover. In the guise of an American businessman he charms Erica into divulging information despite Mark’s best efforts to protect her.

Erica comes to Mark with a problem. She’s fallen prey to a ransomware attack and needs him to sort it without alerting their colleagues. Mark’s response shows he’s got her back. She owes him a favor now. The Controller threatens to deal with Erica and Mark has to create a web of lies to protect his Khromacom family.

Who knows which way Mark will fall? His new permanent position will give him the chance to work from the ‘inside’, but there are signs he has a real conscience, that he cares about his colleagues. Fiona introduces him to newbie Charlotte and it’s obvious she wants the two of them to strike up a friendship. It’s pretty awkward. Mark has hopeless social skills.

Charlotte steps up her social engineering activity, manipulating fellow employees through vishing and impersonation. She’s an impressive adversary and even the security team are not immune. Mark finds himself teaming up with an unlikely ally to try to combat her and her controller, the mysterious ‘Aunt Margret’.

Mark and Charlotte finally make it to dinner at a ‘hipster’ restaurant. Mark’s counter-attack begins, giving Charlotte a taste of her own medicine; using 3rd party apps on her phone. In the process Mark discovers Charlotte’s true motives for targeting Khromacom. The surprises just keep on coming and Mark finds his loyalties tested to the limit.

The launch of e.v.e is just days away and the team is pulled into an unscheduled planning meeting. Dev is relying on Mark and AJ to keep the system secure against a threat of which only Mark knows the true scale. Finally, we start to see the real scope of e.v.e‘s capabilities. Never before has the maxim ‘trust no-one’ seemed more relevant

e.v.e’s launch day minus one and Charlotte is showing herself to be as skilful an actor as she is hacker. Maurice is forced to cash in some old favours, no matter how far flung, or how deep ‘undercover’, to find out who’s really behind the growing web of conspiracy. Meanwhile AJ is having doubts about his friendship with Mark, who seems worryingly distracted and evasive. Not surprising really, after a game-changing revelation that no-one saw coming.

It’s the day of the big launch. The excitement and the threat levels around e.v.e are through the roof. AJ and Mark take the team through the critical security protocols. Meanwhile Charlotte impersonates her way into a bedroom at the launch event hotel. So at last we come to the final showdown. Mark is going to have to draw on all his powers of persuasion to save Charlotte, but time is running out.

Finally, all of the secrets are laid bare, all of the webs of deceit unravel. The revelations come thick and fast for Charlotte, AJ and Dev. By the end of this emotional and tense episode everything they thought they knew will be turned inside-out. Who will emerge on the side of truth? What will happen to all those treasured friendships and loyalties? In a stunning revelation the betrayer will be betrayed.

Mark and AJ face the aftermath. In the remains of the e.v.e launch they survey a world seemingly turned upside-down. So many questions are still unanswered. Can their friendship survive? Could someone really end up in jail? And maybe most important of all, where is Charlotte? All will be revealed and more in this intriguing and uplifting Season finale.