Breach Protocol / Season 1, Episode 12
Collapse Point
Episode 12: Collapse Point The air was thick with ash and the metallic tang of burnt circuitry as Jae-min’s voice tore through the haze, raw and ragged. “Hey! Over here, you bastard!” His arms flailed, a desperate signal in the gray dusk of the breach zone, boots scraping against shattered concrete as he backed toward a jagged outcrop of rubble. The entity loomed, a shifting mass of shadow and static, its form less a body and more a tear in reality itself, edges flickering like a dying screen. Its gaze—or whatever passed for it—locked onto him, a pressure that pressed against his skull, heavy as a storm front rolling in. He didn’t look back to see if Hana and Tae-ho had made it clear. Couldn’t afford to. Every muscle in his body screamed as he ducked behind the rubble, breath coming in sharp, shallow bursts. The ground trembled beneath him, a low rumble that wasn’t just the entity’s approach but something deeper, a fracture in the earth itself. The breach was widening; he could feel it in his bones, a wrongness that crawled up his spine. Seventy-two hours, they’d been told. Seal it, or everything unravels. And here they were, past the deadline, Seoul’s skyline a fractured silhouette in the distance, half the city already swallowed by the creeping dark....