We rejoin the quartet as they are taken into another room. With their hoods removed, they finally face the scientist who had argued with Byron: Diana Sterling.

Another extended speech follows — this time against the beauty industry — so the unlikely heroes can understand the plan. And so can we, of course. Diana reveals she abducted the four from Byron’s custody to recruit them for a mission: kill him. She also announces she is developing humanoid machines, advanced technology capable of transferring human consciousness into android bodies. Most crucially, she discloses that Amanda, Byron’s wife, is the true force behind the operation. The objective is clear and urgent: eliminate Byron before The Beauty’s global launch. Diana and Amanda might benefit from less monologuing and more efficiency, but the story presses on.

There is a practical obstacle. All four are too recognizable to approach Byron without raising suspicion. This makes their original selection for the mission feel questionable — especially since Diana dismisses every alternative proposed, including the professional assassin in the group. The solution emerges when Cooper volunteers to be transformed. With a new body, he could get close to Byron unnoticed. This time, Diana agrees.

Jordan is the only one who objects. Cooper insists: living without her would already be a kind of death, so he might as well die trying to save her. Just as the injection is about to happen, he stops the procedure. If he is going to be infected, he wants it to come directly from Jordan. Given the extreme urgency, the request borders on absurd — but the series leans fully into melodrama.

The couple somehow finds time for an intimate dinner, and when they go upstairs, Jordan hesitates. She says she doesn’t feel well and confesses she cannot go through with it precisely because she loves Cooper too much. The pause is brief. She changes her mind, and the plan resumes. Cooper is infected, but his transformation takes far longer than usual. Antonio and Jeremy try to support Jordan as he undergoes the process, which is clearly stranger than anything seen before.

When he finally emerges from the cocoon, the shock is complete: Cooper now has the body of a teenage boy, roughly fifteen years old. The infiltration mission suddenly becomes far more unpredictable — and dangerous — just as it seemed settled. The episode ends on an unavoidable question: how can a boy possibly carry out a plan to kill the man behind The Beauty?