| Gap | Impact | |------|--------| | | No supervisor verified Self’s field activities. He operated a “black” task force without financial or operational audit. | | Inter-Agency Secrecy | Self exploited DHS’s porous boundaries with CIA/FBI, playing agencies against each other. | | Single Point of Failure | The entire Scylla recovery depended on one rogue agent’s integrity—a catastrophic design flaw. |

: After the team successfully retrieves Scylla, Self betrays them. He reveals he was never planning to hand it over to the government but instead intended to sell it to the highest bidder on the private market.

Don Self’s approach to national safety typically revolves around three core pillars:

★★★★☆ (4/5) A compelling antagonist who brought a grounded, political weight to the final season.