Elias made a choice. He didn't head for the Chicago extraction point. Instead, he handed the digital keys to Sully. "Buy the farm," he told her. "All of them."
The episode’s midpoint shifted when the "investor" who owned the money turned out to be a front for a sprawling corn-belt syndicate. They didn't want the money back; they wanted Elias dead so they could claim the insurance and the untraceable digital keys. [S1E7] Midwest Millions
Elias sat in a corner booth, his eyes tracking the dust motes dancing in the sunlight. Across from him sat , a local mechanic who knew every backroad from Des Moines to Sioux City. She was his only way out. Elias made a choice
"The Midwest Millions isn't a payout," Elias realized, looking at the names. "It’s a payroll." The Resolution "Buy the farm," he told her
"The state troopers are already closing the perimeter," Sully whispered, wiping grease onto a rag. "You aren't just carrying cash, Elias. You’re carrying a target." The Conflict
The episode ended with Elias walking toward a lone Greyhound bus stop under a massive, starry sky, leaving the briefcase empty in a ditch. The final shot was a close-up of a single hundred-dollar bill caught in a barbed-wire fence, fluttering in the prairie wind.