14. The Foundry

Previously — In episode 13, we learn the backstory of John Spillers, as told by Sergeant Zayas during his final moments following the attack on the Grass Cutting Area. Spillers was an immigrant from Holland who joined the crew of the Santa Maria as a cooper, and was later left behind in Haiti with 39 other men in 1492. He’s not only managed to survive 450 years, he’s doing whatever he wants. With impunity. First, there’s JTF Alpha—soldiers he’s hand-selected and modified with super-human capabilities. They can travel undetected, somehow under the concealment of a strange blue light. They also have astounding durability—one man took a face full of 30 caliber rounds from a Browning machine gun shortly before throwing a man into a wall from across a room like a lawn dart. We also learn that Spillers likely had cagey motives from the get-go with respect to the construction of the Grass Cutting Area—this is the top secret detention facility nestled in the jungles of Ramey Air Force base. After JTF Alpha parachutes in and kills everyone, it starts looking more and more like the whole place was intended to serve a single-purpose in a larger scheme involving the jibaro Jesus Santiago. And though it’s not clear why, Spillers still needs Santiago—alive.