The Machine recaps recent events, including Shaw's shooting, and Finch's location of a small upstate town called Maple. Root and Reese are at Maple, in search of a truck believed to be carrying Shaw with it. They prepare their cover identities. Finch visits Fusco at the NYPD precinct with a casefile for their next number, to which Fusco takes interest and insists to be involved. Root and Reese arrive at Maple's 212th Anniversary Fair, hosted by a woman named Leslie Thompson. They remain confused as to why they're here. At the precinct, Fusco and Silva know that they are Weiss' next targets.