OA Goes Deep Undercover With NSA-Linked Team After Season 8 Pathogen Cover-Up

1 articles · Updated · tvline.com · May 19

OA ends the Season 8 finale secretly embedded with Anna Vorpe’s off-the-books strike team after his apparent firing from 26 Fed.
His ouster follows a clash over an NSA-backed cover-up: OA and Maggie were ordered to falsify reports after a stolen sample of one of the government’s most transmissible RNA viruses was released on civilians.
OA refused, called ADIC Lawrence Green a disgrace, and surrendered his badge and gun before Anna approached him with a covert Defense Department role.
The final twist reveals the firing was part of a plan with Maggie and Isobel, setting up Season 9 with OA gone for weeks or months and unable to easily report back while embedded.
Showrunner Mike Weiss said that secrecy will also create fallout inside the team, especially with colleagues like Scola and Jubal left out of the operation.

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