He emerges with a pen.

With 20 minutes left in their final class, Yorick puts Freddy in the straightjacket.

She informs her staff to prepare for some blowback once she gets in front of TV news cameras.

Y: The Last Man

FX

Jade complies, briefly hanging out in a bedroom before exiting via a window.

Jogging away from the house, she uses her own phone to detonate the explosive, killing everyone inside.

At the end of a cornfield-lined road, she notices a dead deer at the base of a tree.

Y: The Last Man

Ben Schnetzer in ‘Y: The Last Man’.Rafy Winterfeld/FX

Once the media has departed, the president has Nora fire a handgun for the first time.

Two of her sons notice a dead rat in the corner of the room.

Beth is clearly not keen on this idea.

Y: The Last Man

Rafy Winterfeld/FX

Yorick proposes, which blows up the evening.

Yorick takes this to mean that she isn’t fully committed to their relationship.

After more arguing, she bolts.

Y: The Last Man

Rafy Winterfeld/FX

Yorick punches the wall, hurting his hand.

She cuts her long hair to complete the transformation.

Before they can depart to grab dinner, a runaway police horse gallops by, almost knocking over Christine.

They then have to take cover on their car to avoid a swarm of rats.

At home, an exhausted Nora is comforted by her husband about her son’s in-disarray party.

On “The Morning Of,” Agent 355 infiltrates the Pentagon as Sarah Burgin.

She joins the president and Jennifer (among many others) in a bustling war room.

Nora makes lunch for her kids while yelling at them for being late.

Marin checks on her slumbering husband and son and screams.

Hearing bedlam on the streets outside, he ventures to his window and stares in disbelief.

She activates a beacon hidden in the lining of her jacket and then heads back into the fray.

Inside, her handler and two other men are dead.

Jennifer is now the President of the United States.

Jennifer watches on the monitors as rioters break through the barricades.

She says they’ll have to concede the White House and rebuild it later.

“I think it’s going to get worse maybe a lot before it gets better.”

He gathers Ampersand in a carrier and heads out.

With only 24 hours left until the city falls apart, Jennifer orders the evacuation of NYC.

She watches a woman with a crying baby argue with a FEMA agent to no avail.

Hero speaks with her, learning that her husband went out working the night before.

On her way out, Hero steals a Leatherman.

She returns to the temporary home she’s sharing with Sam and a couple of other guys.

This crew’s stash of testosterone vials indicates that they’re transgender.

Sam begs Hero to get in touch with her estranged mom Jennifer but doesn’t get anywhere.

Sam thus reminds Hero that they’re departing at dark.

Jennifer reluctantly speaks with Kimberley, who presses the president on moving up the NYC evacuation timeline.

In an abandoned cafe, Yorick continues spray-painting messages for Beth.

Hero revisits the ambulance where Mike’s corpse is now decaying.

Yorick breaks into a dry cleaner to steal fresh clothes and is accosted by three Asian women.

Yorick tearfully apologizes and begs them to be kind and let him go with some clothes.

The monkey appears and hops on a happy Yorick’s shoulders.

They return to their apartment, where Yorick worries that he’s all out of survival ideas.

Sam, it turns out, has chosen to ditch his friends and stay with Hero.

She relents and agrees.

Marla visits Jennifer in her office, announcing she wants to return home to Lynchburg to bury her son.

Jennifer laments that she can’t spare the Secret Service detail for that trip right now.

She confesses that, at the time, she had all sorts of fears about having a daughter.

Jennifer, in turn, admits that she sent someone to have a go at retrieve Hero from NYC.

Yorick is awakened by an intruder.

He tries and fails to get the jump on this person.

It’s Agent 355, who’s stunned to find Yorick rather than Hero.

They head inside, and Agent 355 tells her two helicopter pilots, “Come with me.”

Nora and Mackenzie return to a house they’re sharing with a few other families.

Nora and Mackenzie are now on their own.

Agent 355 debriefs the two helicopter pilots who brought her and Yorick back from New York City.

She’s called away, leaving the furious duo locked inside the room.

Yorick tells his mom that he wants to find Beth because they’re engaged (a lie).

Agent 355 informs Jennifer that the pilots are going to be a problem.

No one has heard from the country since.

Regina says if this is true, she’s now the President of the United States.

Agent 355 smiles and departs without making any commitment.

The woman asks, the time for what?

But the answer a coup remains unspoken.

Nora and Mackenzie watch their housemates leave, and Nora breaks a vase out of frustration.

Mackenzie doesn’t want to leave the bodies there, so Nora digs a grave for them.

When a giant, fearless vulture lands near her on a fence, she drops the shovel and leaves.

She and Mackenzie drive away in an SUV running on empty and briefly hear a radio broadcast.

Agent 355 and Christine argue in front of Jennifer and Yorick about the qualifications of geneticist candidates.

Yorick just wants his life back, and Jennifer says she can’t give him that.

Jennifer is called away to deal with another urgent matter: the revelation that Regina is alive.

Jennifer realizes this is an all-out constitutional crisis, and her advisors vow to stand united with her.

Jennifer downplays tensions and swiftly ends this standoff.

She also bribes them with medals.

Jennifer empathetically relates to her grief, and in doing so, convinces Sharon to help.

Agent 355 is flying Yorick to Boston in a helicopter behind the other two pilots' chopper.