Realizing she cannot win a direct fight, Flynne decides to "reboot" the game. With the help of , she executes a complex plan:
Flynne infiltrates a secret RI facility in the future and opens a brand-new "stub" (a splinter timeline) branching off her own. Eps8The Peripheral - Season 1
She realizes that as long as she is alive in the original 2032 stub, Cherise will destroy it to kill her. Flynne asks her friend Conner Penske to assassinate her in the real world. Realizing she cannot win a direct fight, Flynne
The Research Institute (RI), led by , discovers that stolen high-security data—a "neural adjustment mechanism" capable of behavioral modification—is literally embedded in Flynne’s DNA as a bacterial infection. To prevent this data from falling into the hands of the Klept (the future's criminal oligarchy), Cherise decides to accelerate the Jackpot —the apocalyptic collapse of Flynne's timeline—starting with a missile silo explosion in Flynne's hometown of Clanton. Flynne’s Radical Gambit Flynne asks her friend Conner Penske to assassinate