However, the device recovered by the team was a sabotage device/forgery and exploded, killing Director Graham and several CIA agents, and destroying the rebuilt Intersect. General Beckman described it as the "brain" of the Intersect in Chuck vs. the First Date. The real Cipher was subsequently recovered in "Chuck vs. the Seduction." Neither episode revealed the exact function of the Cipher in the Intersect. In "Chuck vs. The Predator", Beckman also implied that the first Cipher was developed by Orion.