The Issues:
All of this talk about freedom and Zack subjected yet another person to his own trigger finger. He’d have to live with that for the rest of his life. Sure enough, every major news network picked up on the story. Hardin won the presidency because the people didn’t know anyone else at that point. Elliot found his daughter and he left work in politics to be with her. Huddles and the team disappeared, and the nation was on it’s way to repealing many of the acts that gave the federal government more control than it ought to have, but was the outcome truly worth the means used to achieve it?
Zack would live the rest of his life on the run, but the truth did come out about Fitz. That CIA agent ended up turning in the drive and a full investigation ensued.
Zack found himself once again in the room of his dreams. This time he was alone and there was no door. He was not happy and he felt as though he accomplished nothing. All he wanted to do was prove his own innocence and he brought down a regime. Things looked brighter, but he had become the type of person he feared he would become: bitter and resentful. He needed a freedom that government could not afford. He needed life that could not be gained.
He looked up from his thoughts and saw the ambassador, Luciano, standing in the middle of the room. “What are you doing here?” he asked.
Zack didn’t know quite how to respond, “What do you mean?”
Luciano walked up to him, “You have defended negative freedom and it wasn’t enough. It’s only a picture and you desire true freedom.”
“True freedom?” Zack asked.
“Yes, the kind of freedom that lasts beyond death. That is what we all desire and our desire for negative liberty is evidence of that. Won’t you take it?”
Luciano was gone and Zack would have to decide for himself.