“Broussard” is episode seven of season one of Colony.
The episode opens in a church and the preacher is saying that all of their faiths were incomplete before the Arrival. Yet they all said a great day of salvation was coming, when they would be lifted up to become something greater. He also wants to welcome Nolan Burgess of the Political Ministry – the husband of the woman Mattie is working for – and mentions the important work their dedicated youth leaders are doing. And how a great day will come. Lindsey, the slightly creepy tutor of Will and Katie’s children, is also there.
Katie arrives home and calls out to the children. There is no answer, but she hears a creak from upstairs. Heading upstairs, she grabs a gun and starts investigating. A man steps out behind her and she turns and shoots him. It’s Broussard. She then steps closer and shoots him in the head. Then wakes up. At work, Mattie is being undressed by Nolan. Charlotte Burgess watches them as they get intimate. Later, she looks for a painting that has gone and been erased from the log. Brett suggests that it has been borrowed. Only Mattie says you don’t borrow large $12 million pieces of art. Later still, Mattie finds the painting and sees Charlotte doing something.
Katie is heading out; Bram has already gone to school and Gracie is with Lindsey. Katie suggests to Gracie they go to the park later. Gracie isn’t interested – until Lindsey says they can all go. After Katie has gone, Gracie starts talking about a man who was very misunderstood and came thousands of years ago to help us learn about ourselves and the universe. The man died, and for 2,000 years people believed he would come back to save them. He will come back, but not in the way everyone thinks. When he does, it will be the Greatest Day – and she has a book from her church with that title. A special book, with all kinds of secrets. So, Lindsey’s church seems to think the aliens are the Second Coming.
Following the events of the previous episode, “Yoknapatawpha”, the Yonk is still a crime scene, so Katie passes by. The Resistance garage is empty, so Katie heads to Broussard’s house. There’s no reply, so she attempts to make phone contact. Quayle had put two and two together and made five, deciding that Katie is a double agent. She did shoot another member of the Resistance, but only to save Will.
Will and Jennifer are looking at a photo of Broussard. Only the name on the picture is Dwight Ford. Snyder asks if that’s their guy and is told it is. ‘Ford’ spent 9 months inside Homeland Security, joining as soon as the applications were opened up. Will says it will help if they could use the Rolodex, but they need the password. Snyder says he will have to make some calls, but will get Will authorised. Will wants Jennifer authorised; she’s the expert. They have Ford’s home address, so an APC and other vehicles, including Will and Beau, roll up at it. This isn’t the house Broussard has been seen living in. The breach team break open the door and the house explodes. Will and Beau are probably glad they weren’t closer.
Back at base, Jennifer asks if there was an explosion. Like an explosion explosion? Will doesn’t know of any other kind. Four members of the breach team are dead and Will wonders who has C4 these days. No-one Beau wants to meet. Jennifer has the Rolodex login, and it starts displaying information really quickly. Then Will presses print, and it starts doing the same with paper. He tells Jennifer to let him know what she finds. He and Beau then head to see two officers who worked with Ford. They don’t know much, but one saw a tattoo of a skull with wings on his chest. Which Will says is a Force Recon tattoo; Marine special ops. Or he got drunk in Vegas is Beau’s suggestion. Will doubts that. Broussard is currently breaking into a morgue, where he selects a body that looks generally similar to him.
Jennifer has printed out everything about Ford; every single bit of digital data they had up to the moment of the Arrival. Ford lacked a military background; he worked in international sales. Machine tools. A hobbyist shooter, not military. Will asks Jennifer what she did prior to the Arrival, NSA? She managed one of the largest private databases in the world. She really hopes they didn’t keep track of a lot of trained killers. Jennifer is also a bit vague as to what the database was – which later comes up. Will tells her the files are rubbish; keep digging until she finds someone with Ford’s face and a military background.
Broussard is with Quayle in a van. The body is placed in the front of the van and Broussard shoots it. Petrol is poured over and the van is set on fire. During this, Quayle talks about Katie, and Julius Caesar. They’ve lost the armoury, the chance at Snyder and most of their cell. Sure, Phyllis is dead, but Will stepped up to take her place. Part of Katie’s plans. Quayle seems to believe that Katie is some sort of mastermind; Broussard appears less convinced. When Will and Beau arrive at the burned-out van, Beau complains about the things he’s seen since hanging around with will. Will also doesn’t believe that Ford is the one inside. And he isn’t going to walk away, because Ford had a gun on Katie.
Jennifer, after digging some more, comes up with more people with Ford’s face. Many more; Ford had a lot of IDs and travelled all over the world. Will thinks that’s even worse; Broussard was a trained operative. And likely an assassin. Katie is being put in a difficult, and potentially dangerous, place, and Mattie starts running into problems at work thanks to Nolan. She’s doing everything to ensure her son gets the insulin he needs.