Episode 12 Summary

April 30th
-It's coming up on the last chance for Newton to attack the tank. Sam and his helpers are working hard to finish it.
-Meanwhile, the new equipment is distributed at Fort Newton.
-Bryant mentions to Corwin that Newton is now broke and will be in the red even if they win.
-Gerard wants information from Ophelia soon, he wants to leave town before the army arrives. He also offers money if she can get him info on where the new weapons and equipment came from.
-Ophelia gets several more requests for information on said weapons and equipment.
-Ophelia reports information to Corwin, then later breaks in and gets a lead on the equipment--the kid that passed out in the woods. She goes and sees him, and bribes him to tell her where he was. Ophelia goes out, finds the silo, takes pictures.
-Ophelia meets up with Dutch and Virgil. They decide to try and take Gerard down tonight.
-Ophelia takes Gerard to the back room, tells him about the silo.
-As Virgil and Dutch go out to try and intercept Gerard and his men, Virgil is stabbed by Morton, seeking revenge for the murder of his cousin. Virgil isn't badly injured, but Dutch is forced to gun down Morton, alerting Gerard and his men, not to mention the militia.
-A firefight ensues which is broken up by the arrival of Eva and the militia.
-As Ophelia is departing the scene, she finds another mobster up on a roof radioing information. She kills him, but not before he manages to get the word out that Dutch and Virgil just tried to kill Gerard.
-Eva has Gerard and his men sent to the sheriff's office for holding.
-Ophelia reports to Corwin that the men are mobsters and that they were asking her for information about a nuke. Corwin holds an emergency meeting of the council, where they decide off the record that the mobsters must be killed for safety's sake.
-Anders sends his deputies on break, Dutch walks into the cell with a silenced pistol. Gerard tells Dutch he strongly suspected him but wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt; he also tells Dutch that in the near future things much more important than his dispute with the mob are coming and he'd better be ready to make the right choices. Dutch kills Gerard and all his men.
-Ophelia tells Dutch and Virgil about the man with the radio. They are almost certainly now marked men.

May 1st
-The train is finally ready to go. It is sent down the tracks at top speed, packed with explosives. At the last moment the one car it's pulling, modified to be a mobile fortress, is detached. The tank is started up and fires a shell at the engine, but it's too late. The engine smashes into the tank, they fuse together and go tumbling, then explode. Then the car arrives and its occupants open up with their weapons. They inflict heavy casualties, but are all eventually gunned down. Then Virgil and his men, who had been videotaping the events thus far, ride down before they can reorganize and make a deadly hit-and-run attack.
-Back in Newton, the recording of the engine taking out the tank is played in the town square. Morale is much improved. Meanwhile Colonel Washington is forced to halt to regroup and tend to the wounded, and wait for the New Eden forces to catch up, but he pledges that he will retaliate for today's attack.