When a coordinated EMP event takes down power grids across the eastern seaboard, the government's classified recovery playbook — the Aftermath Protocol — is activated. Marcus Webb, 37, a FEMA crisis architect who helped write the protocol, discovers within hours that the attack was partially anticipated and deliberately under-reported. Nadia Cho, 30, a field journalist already embedded in Baltimore covering infrastructure decay, starts broadcasting raw footage that contradicts every official statement. And Raymond Holt, 60, a disgraced former NSA director now living off-grid in Vermont, knows exactly who did this — because he helped them set the conditions. Season 1 covers the 30 days following the attack. Season 2 moves into the political and criminal reckoning that follows.
