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She was the best federal agent in the bureau. Then she discovered the bureau was the problem. Zara Cole is the most decorated agent in the FBI's Special Operations Division — decorated, respected, and deeply trusted by an institution she has served for ten years. She is also, by season one's third episode, beginning to understand that the institution she has given everything to is systematically corrupt at its highest levels. When a case she is investigating — the murder of a civil rights attorney — begins pointing toward senior federal officials, Zara must choose between institutional loyalty and actual justice. The series follows her transformation from faithful agent to rogue investigator, building her own network of allies outside the system as the system begins to target her in return. Season one is Zara discovering the corruption. Season two is her dismantling it from outside the institution she built her life within. Season three is the reckoning — both the institution's accountability and Zara's personal rebuilding after ten years of misplaced faith. The show is an action thriller with the emotional core of a character study: who is Zara Cole when the job that defined her is gone? Season 1 — The Case Zara investigates the murder of a civil rights attorney and the evidence leads somewhere the bureau insists she should not look. Season 2 — The Network Outside the bureau, Zara builds her own investigation network. The bureau is simultaneously hunting her. Season 3 — The Reckoning Public accountability, congressional hearings, and Zara rebuilding her life outside the institution that defined her for a decade.