The team works to coordinate emergency responses despite a cyber attack that has taken down communications, in the latest COBRA:
Audrey is barely clinging to a piece of flotsam in the North Sea, buffeted by rain. Luckily Mark Everly, the naval commander with whom she shared a boat, has also survived theand managed to inflate a raft, and to rescue her. Unluckily, the raft has been punctured and is taking on water. They must swim to a nearby offshore wind turbine if they are to survive.
Plenty of other people are also missing and presumed dead, including the area’s local Member of Parliament, who was helping with the evacuations. The death count currently stands around 300, but is sure to rise—especially given the lack of communications technology, which will lead to preventable deaths.
Eleanor wants Robert to release the prisoners suspected in the oligarch’s killing, to hopefully end the cyber attack, but he refuses, and Anna agrees with his decision. His new Home Secretary Joseph Obasi disagrees; he would have never arrested them in the first place. But Obasi is on the ground in Kent, a foil to Robert’s former Home Secretary and political rival Archie Glover-Morgan, who is criticizing the government’s failure to prevent or address the hack on TV.
Francine warns Hari to be careful, and rightfully so: Robert wants to discover his source. Eleanor is thus watching and intrigued when Hari and Francine meet at a bar. But Hari continues to receive information, like a flash drive with a video showing a man tied to a chair. Text declares him responsible for the explosion in Kent. An anonymous male voice tells Hari via phone call to destroy the drive when he’s done with it.