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Complete story — includes the ending

In 2010, Harold works with Dillinger ( Neil Jackson ), an ex- Blackwater mercenary who performs the same duties later performed by Reese. Their current number is Daniel Casey ( Joseph Mazzello ), a hacker who tests computer security systems. Multiple parties attempt to eliminate Casey, including Reese and Stanton (secretly arranged by Control) and agents of Decima Technologies. Dillinger saves Casey and brings him to Harold, who realizes Casey's last job was to find a way to access the Machine. Although Casey failed, he learned enough to warrant Control to want him dead and his laptop destroyed. Dillinger turns on Finch and steals the laptop from him to sell on the black market, but not before Finch modifies the laptop's code. The sale is busted by a Special Counsel agent (Shaw) who kills Dillinger, but one of the buyers escapes with the laptop. Casey is captured by Reese, who decides to let him live against his orders, providing him with safe passage to Canada, an act of mercy that Harold observes unseen. Control traces the laptop to China, and orders that Reese and Stanton to be sent after the laptop and destroyed along with it. In the present day, Root finds Casey in Alaska and tells him to go to Cartagena, Colombia and seek out Jason Greenfield.